 Where you work, it's the payroll savings plan. Where you bank, it's the bond a month plan. Everywhere, it's United States savings bonds for real financial security. How do you do, ladies and gentlemen? This is your host, Kenny Delmar, introducing Guest Star, one of a series of programs produced and transcribed in New York and presented by this station and United States savings bonds as a public service. Our guest for this program is the dainty diva of the Dolores Downbeat, Lena Horne. Yes, indeed, but first, the savings bonds orchestra directed by Dennis Agay, the three singing dollars and a medley of welcome revivals. That's my weakness now, and I love you. Sultry songbird of the somber sonata, Lena Horne. My, my, Kenny, sultry songbird of the somber sonata and before, dainty diva of the Dolores Downbeat. You're full of alliterations, aren't you? Yeah, as a matter of fact, my friends call me the gay illiterate. Great. I'm taking advantage, I know, I shouldn't have said that. But say, with all the new songs that keep coming out, you must spend lots of time learning so many of them. Don't you find it difficult? Well, not at all, Kenny. I have a system, you see. There are about 200 songs published every week. I just examine them, then divide them into group A and group B, good and bad. The bad ones I discard and the good ones I learn. Yeah, but still 200 songs a week, that's over 10,000 songs a year. Even discarding the bad ones, you have to learn quite a few of those 10,000 songs. Oh yeah, some years I have to learn as many as a dozen. Some years. Yeah, well, I agree with you. Very few modern love songs are really good and I don't know why. That Chukovsky music is pretty. Well, I think it's in the lyrics. They've got it down to too much of a formula. It always seems to go sort of like this. A loves B, but B loves C. And B can't see B for A. Or there's a twist. A loves C, but C loves B, but B can't see C. C, senorita, that's very good, yeah. Well, absolutely. I'd say that love songs today lack true romance. You know, they're not filled with tender passion and sentiment and, well, you know, they don't transport you to that never, never land where all our dreams of love come true. You gotta have a little mausoleum. Well, I take it, Kenny, you dislike modern love songs. Dislike, I'll tell you how much I disliked them in just two words, completely. I got that, a friend of mine wrote that in. Well, if there's anything I like, it's an old-fashioned love song. And if there's anything I sing, it's old-fashioned love. Ah, didn't we just sneak into that title just peachy? I've got that old-fashioned love in my heart. And there it will, the time is joy and tears, always the same. Oh, never mind about being modest. It was merely magnificent, slightly sensational. Oh, it was just one of those things? Well, a trifle terrific is a hint of heaven. Really, Kenny, it's just one of those things. Look, I'm trying to tell you how wonderful you sing and you just keep saying it's just one of those things. Why? Because that's the title of the song I'm going to sing right now. Oh, smart girl. Just one of those crazy things. One of those bells that nah, and then a trip to them. One of those. You have a standing invitation to visit guest star any time you can drop in. Well, thank you, Kenny. And incidentally, I've been hearing a lot of these guest star programs over the radio at home. I heard the one with Burns and Allen, the one with L'Arts Melchior and Helen Traubel, and Nellie Templeton, Kaye Kaiser, and Fibromagee and Molly. And oh, gee, I don't know how many. You must be a real radio fan. Well, I am. And a savings bonds fan, too. That's the point I was going to make. The guests you have on these programs all have different talents. You know, some sing, some are comedians, some play musical instruments. But when it comes to saving for the future, they all go about it the same way, by investing regularly in the United States savings bonds. Well, that's right, Lynn. A lot of famous folks have performed on guest star. And every one of them is not only a firm believer in United States savings bonds, but a regular buyer of United States savings bonds. Crosby, Hope, Durante, Moore, Skelton, Gladys Swarthout, Henry Morgan, Phil Baker, Ozzie and Harriet Nelson. All of them and lots of others have taken the time and trouble to appear on guest star just because they want to help let everybody know about the value of buying bonds. Well, the facts about United States saving bonds speak for themselves. They are a safe investment, guaranteed by our government. They are a profitable investment, paying $4 back for three in just 10 years. And of course, I've learned from experience that the only effective way to build a real nest egg is to save regularly. So for that reason, I think the payroll savings plan is a wonderful idea. Right, you are, Lina. And definitely, because where you work, you just tell the folks how much you want set aside from your pay each week toward the purchase of United States savings bonds and they do the rest. Buy the bonds and deliver them to you. That's easy, automatic saving. And the kind of saving that produces real results. But look here, I've been talking enough. What was that tune Dennis Agui, the three dollars in the orchestra, were rehearsing earlier? Oh, they were rehearsing? Oh, that was, if this isn't love. From Finnian's rainbow? Uh-huh. Oh, well, let's hear it. All right. This isn't love. Thinks about United States savings bonds. Just tell them I feel the same way millions of Americans who own them feel. They're wonderful. Right. This is your host, Kenny Delmar, signing off for guest star, one of a series of programs produced and transcribed in New York and presented by this station and United States savings bonds for the public service. Our sincere thanks to Lena Horne for being with us on this program. And until next we meet, here's a question to remember. Have you invested in United States savings bonds? This week, there are goodbye, goodbye, that is.