Cavalcade of America — 1937
52 episodes broadcast in 1937.
How American actors won prestige for a stage once dominated by English players.
John Wesley Hyatt, father of plastics and of the roller bearing.
The sailors' songs of the sea and the men who sang them.
Elizabeth Blackwell, America's pioneering woman physician.
The amateur radio hams who became the minute men of the air.
The long life of industrialist and philanthropist Peter Cooper.
A clergyman's early crusade for smallpox inoculation.
Soprano Lillian Nordica and the recognition of American singers.
The pioneers who created America's national parks.
The life of merchant and philanthropist Stephen Girard.
Colonial glassmaker Henry William Stiegel and his house of glass.
William Holmes McGuffey and the readers that taught America.
Robert Peary's stubborn drive to reach the North Pole.
The popular songs of the Gay Nineties.
John Sutter and the golden touch that made and unmade his fortune.
George Washington's inauguration as the first president in 1789.
A National Music Week tribute to the songs of the South.
The unrecognized genius behind the invention of dynamite.
A portrait of Thomas Edison, the man behind the inventions.
A salute in song and story to the American Indian.
The chemists who built America's dye industry.
The geological wonder of the Columbia River gorge.
A man of science who followed his star of destiny.
The pine tree shilling, the first coin minted in America.
Luther Burbank, the plant wizard who reshaped American horticulture.
A summer tribute to the music of Irving Berlin.
A tribute to George Gershwin, days after his death in July 1937.
The music of Richard Rodgers, from college shows to Broadway.
Part four of the summer music series, spotlighting a Broadway composer.
Part five of the summer music series: the operettas of Rudolf Friml.
August 11, 1937
Cavalcade of Music, the Part 6
Part seven of the summer music series: the music of Sigmund Romberg.
The music of Broadway composer Arthur Schwartz.
Part nine of the summer music series, opening with Victor Herbert.
Part ten of the summer music series: music in the movies.
Part eleven of the summer music series: the music of Cole Porter.
A program honoring Cavalcade's own musical director, Don Voorhees.
The great American tragedian Edwin Booth.
Mary Lyon, the educator who founded a college for women.
William Penn and his holy experiment in colonial Pennsylvania.
The immigrant fur trader John Jacob Astor.
Clara Louise Kellogg, America's first native-born prima donna.
Inventor Elmer Sperry and the gyroscope that guided ships and planes.
John Bartram, the pioneering American botanist, and his famous garden.
November 17, 1937
The Seeing Eye
Sarah Josepha Hale, editor of Godey's Lady's Book and champion of Thanksgiving.
Ottmar Mergenthaler, inventor of the Linotype typesetting machine.
The drafting of the United States Constitution.
Great Americans who found glory even in defeat.
Dramatic incidents in the life of a master New England navigator.
December 29, 1937
Ernestine Schumann-heink
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