 Ladies and gentlemen the railroad hour and here comes our star-studded show train Tonight the association of American railroads presents Victor Herbert's operetta Eileen starring Cecil Kalloway, Irene Manning, Clark Dennis and your host Gordon Macrae Acquire is under the direction of Norman Luboff and our music is arranged and conducted by Carmen Dragon Yes tonight another great musical success is brought to you by the American railroads The same railroads that also bring you most of the food you eat the clothes you wear the fuel you burn and all the other things You use in your daily life And now here is Gordon Macrae Ladies and gentlemen, this is your host Gordon Macrae ringing up the curtain on our St. Patrick's Day offering Victor Herbert's romantic Irish operetta Eileen Character of Sean and tonight's story we have the man nominated for an Academy Award for his fine performance as the leprechaun and the luck of the Irish Cecil Kalloway The lovely musical comedy primadonna Irene Manning plays Eileen Clark Dennis adds his looking Irish gender voice to the role of dinny and yours truly plays captain Barry O'Day Now here is Cecil Kalloway in the role of Sean to tell you the story of Eileen Eileen begins like any other Eidie love story must begin with once upon a time So once upon a time in Ireland There was a boy and there was a girl And I'm going to tell you what happened. I'm just as I saw them on the on-Eyed Just in the days of the Irish rebellion and I would Engage somewhat illegally for the band of smugglers I can hear them singing now as they march back from the scene In a misty moon A bit of a flogging me throughout the night, but in those days I could sing so that it would make your throat ache to hear me First beyond with this story on a certain morning We return from a very profitable smuggling expedition We stopped at the black bullion for a bit of chair and there in the back room You'll be found to hear of my story captain Barry O'Day a foreign handsome Dini, how are you? How you're looking fine lads? Barry, where have you come from? Well, you're hiding out back here for it. Come out so you can see the lads Well, right now there's a price and pounds in my head and the English are at my heels Well, then what are you doing in these parts? Dini, I hope to raise some new recruits in Ireland and take them to join a French army under General Hosh He's planning to invade Ireland from the west and march on Dublin Hooray! Hooray! You can count on us, Barry, my boy Oh lads, it's so good to be home again, to smell Irish earth and to look at Irish sky To hear the voices that speak with the music of Ireland in them Ah, you don't know what it can mean Until you're away from it When far from the land that I'm proud to call my own I repine till the heart of me is sore Happiness I've known While my soul seems to whisper For and only when shall I again see our There's no other spot I know that's half so fame My son or my home My son It's good to be home Who is it? Breakfast, Mr. O'Day Well, thank you, Rosie. Will you join me, lads? Of course we will Rosie, me darling Well, what is it now, Dini? I picked up a necklace last night that's just the color of your eyes And it is yours for a kiss Thank you kindly, Dini Doyle, but I have a necklace I'll be in with your breakfast as quickly as possible, Captain O'Day Thank you, Rosie You're not using the right approach for that one, Dini Take it in your arms That's O'Day Take it, carry it off Oh, no, I've tried that already And I have a scar I'll carry to me grave Well then, Dini, take it in your arms gently And say, O Rosie, your name for the flower that's justly famed For more of sweetness and of loveliness Than any bud that blows You are spoken like a true advertisement But if you take my advice, Dini, you'll sing it Sing it, huh? Well, I could sing it better than I could say it Nor could I Have you ever been in love, Barry? I don't intend to fall in love I have only time for one love right now And that's Ireland Yesterday I had Barry speak with O'Day It was the same day that he met O'Day in Mine close to now Then I'll tell you exactly what and how it came about Dini and O'Day were just about to leave Barry When there was a great commotion We all rushed out to the window And we saw that the mob was surrounding a carriage That looks like Lady Maud's carriage, Sean That was indeed Do you two know Lady Maud? Well, for two seasons, Barry I met her in France She's a fine, brave woman And she's all for the cars And the mob's giving her a bad time Come on Pettie, keep your hands close, Barry That's my people, and I'll have to chance it Are you with me? We're with you, come on I am not an enemy I am an Irish woman Let me through, let me through Get back before I close Pilly, permit me to help you down Barry O'Day You in Ireland Yes, and you know why Come, I'll see you safely to the top Oh, my niece is in the carriage She painted We were driving along when these ruffians stopped us Well, I'll carry your niece in For you to push yourself up there What traitor is this amongst us? I'll tell you who I am I'm Barry O'Day O'Day That's the spirit I love for the tar I am printar May the tyrants part evermore be broken Hearts in sorrow tried Beat with loyal pride Mind a slogan here And shlant a gal go bra Do something, you're in great danger We part some English troops Less than a mile down the road Come, we'll go into the black bull and talk a moment I'll carry your niece And I'll hold back the cloud When I dismissed the cloud and walked outside And there was the two of them Barry and it had his armor on their lean He was holding a glass to her lips He was looking at her And faith how he was looking at her He was looking at her like she was the first woman who walked the earth Maybe it's just because I'm Irish But I swear there was music in that room As she opened her eyes and saw Barry O'Day for the first time And maybe it's because I'm Irish that the words they said Seems to mean an uncommon lot more than what he'll feel better now Oh, are you? Oh, I'm... This is an old friend of mine, Eileen I've just, oh, I've just hired him for my groom You've what? It's the only way the English are coming I can stand by myself now, thank you What was your name? Uh, James Thank you for helping me, James Oh, it is a pleasure, my lady How pretty! Oh, dear boy, all right Quiet, everyone Let me handle this Lady Esther Brooke, this is a surprise Oh, no, Lester, how nice to see you again Are these Irish vagabonds a noyge? Oh, dear, no We just stopped for some refreshment But we really must get home Come, James One moment, please I'm hunting for a fugitive A fugitive An Irish patriot named Barry O'Day, a very dangerous man This man is your servant to say Oh, yes My lady's most obedient servant Then I will not detain your ladyship Thank you, Colonel Come, everyone, we want to reach the castle by nightfall Is the position of the footmen still open, your ladyship? Footmen? Oh, yes Yes, of course Come along, Sean, come along And that's how it all began With Barry and Eileen and Lady Marge missiles Riding along through the bright summer day Singing like we were dangerous And everyone with fast journey ends My husband's farm, may the tyrants far Nor be broken Hearts and sorrow tried Beat with loyal pride Mine was mogen, Karen's slant to count the bra My husband's farm, may the tyrants far Sorry to take a second look at a train going by But not many of us, if any, ever glance at what's under the train The track on which it runs To most of us, as a matter of fact, today's tracks look about like those we have always seen But they only look alike Actually, today's track does its work of supporting and guiding the trains far better Far more efficiently than the track of even a few years ago I'll take, for example, the rail To the naked eye, today's rail looks about like the rail of 20 years ago But today's rail is not only heavier It's better designed This means that it's stronger and smoother riding And that's only part of the story of improvement For it's made of better steel It's tougher, more durable, less likely to break And what is true of rail Is true of every other part of the structure of the track To produce such results Many men, many industries, many institutions Have cooperated in widespread and long continued research At the very focus of the effort Has been the American Railway Engineering Association This professional society is made up of men who are primarily responsible For the construction and maintenance of roadway bridges and buildings of the railroads This week, the American Railway Engineering Association is observing its 50th anniversary For 30 years, it has served also as a technical division Of the Association of American Railroads In the half century of its life, research has been its field The far-reaching railroad industry, it's proving ground Efficient public transportation, its goal And all of us, the beneficiaries of its work And now back to Victor Herbert's operetta, Eileen Starring Cecil Kalloway, Irene Manning, Clark Dennis And your host, Gordon McRae And here is Cecil Kalloway as Sean to continue our story Here I am again I suppose you're wondering what happened to Barry and Eileen Where now I'll tell you all about it Barry had to remain Lady Maude's groom As so long as the English print of the vicinity of Lady Maude's estate Eileen looked at Barry and Barry looked at Eileen But never a word passed between them except Drive me here and saddle my horse Through this air Yes, my lady, I'll be happy to, my lady But what's my lady? Ah, and the heart, it was disappointing Until one night I saw Barry leaning against a tree All by himself Sing it Though if I'm in love with a slip of a girl And if I should be merry or sad I don't know For my heart is a fire, and my head is a whirl Yet I'm suffering for her So I'm glad that is so But my heart, you have captured It is you that I love You are with your charm is unraptured You can hear all of it through the ages Sighing behind him It's no, no, no woman could ever resist this, you know That's not true Well, within a few years Eileen gave every indication Of a young lady whose resistance was going to The way of every other woman If I was in the garden picking flowers When along came Lady Maude and Eileen Aunt Maude, is James married? No, I don't think so Oh, Sean, is James married? Is it? I don't think so, ma'am I love that I know her Does he interest you, Eileen? Interest me? Good gracious, no How could he possibly interest me? No He could interest me if I were your age Oh, well, he's overbearing He's rude, he's pushing And I don't think he's a gentleman Oh, no, you've gone too far You have indeed Call him anything you like But a gentleman he is You forget yourself No, Eileen I think you forgot yourself Sean, what was that old song We used to sing around the castle? Remember? I remember it very well, lady Someday, someway Do you and me, I know Where it surely comes That happy home Just to heaven here, to below Sure then, but that's where We're sure the more of this time Is the gentleman I'll be when you're at it You're right, both of you I haven't been talking like much of a lady, have I? I... I don't know what's the matter with me lately I... excuse me Well, so that's the way the wind blows It seems to be, my dear He got on a horse, a rodeo He departed us, Barry That's the day that Eileen dried alone So he followed her It was about a mile from the house That Eileen's horse threw away Hi, Leed Oh, hi, Leed Are you all right? Yes, I... I think so Did you... did you call me darling? Eh? What now? Now where would the likes of me get off calling the likes of you, darling? Who are you? I'm an Irishman Now that I think of it, there's an Irishman the English are all hunting A certain Barry O'Day Yes, my lady How clever it would be for a man like that to take a job somewhere in plain sight The English have never seen him and the Irish wouldn't betray him How clever if he were to become a groom And if he were to become a groom What a proud day it is for Ireland to have men like you Captain O'Day They rode back from the ride silently Hedge full of questions and unspoken dreams And that night it was beside Eileen that I saw Eileen up against the tree all by herself Singing for the... Still waking Like the dawn of a beautiful day The course of true love never did run smooth And the very next afternoon I brought Lady Wardward of the approach of Colonel Esther and the English hordes They're close to the house, you say, Sean? They are, that's me, Lady All right, no time to get in the horse Oh, they'd be up to you in a minute, Barry What they don't know what I look like They wouldn't have much trouble ingesting if they saw you on a horseback Well, we'll just have to blub it out, Barry I'm afraid it's a little late for that, Lady Maud Colonel Esther So, this is Barry O'Day I should have known when you asked for that position as footman There was something in the wind Strange, I thought you'd be younger Is this me you're looking at with an accusing eye? You think I'm a man of your age? I'm not You're not what? I'm not as old as you think I am I'm as old and I'm as young as I am And I've lived for Ireland And now that I'm today At least there's glory in the thought that I shall die for Ireland This is outrageous Barry O'Day, in the name of the king, I arrest you Oh, no, no, no We've not, my lady He is going in the manner that Barry O'Day would choose to go Oh, this is monstrous Someone has betrayed us It was you, James I'm sure of it You have betrayed us My lady, you wound me I have betrayed no one on my word Your word You're a traitor, a disgrace to Ireland Get off my premises at once Gladly Just a moment Perhaps you'll permit me to use this man's services Well, he's no good to Ireland Take him if you want him You know the way to Dublin? Like I know my prayers Then you shall take this dispatch for me But Colonel Lester sent for me, I tell you I'd like to see you What's that? Oh, it's Humphrey Grogan I sent for him to identify O'Day But that's taken care of now Very well, James, be off Thank you kindly, Colonel And goodbye I'll wrap you all in line from Dublin Captain O'Day Yes, sir In recognition of your bravery Your eyes shall not be bandaged Thank you for your courtesy, Colonel Lester Then you yourself shall give the word to fire That's very kind of you You won't mind, I hope, if I stutter a bit But I can't, I've but seen a Colonel A Colonel Lester Colonel Lester Get out of here, Humphrey Grogan How dare you come into my parlour uninvited I'm a Murthy, your ladyship Murthy But I just saw Barry O'Day riding away Impossible, this is Barry O'Day Him? Him? This one? Don't you refer to me as this one? This is... Why, this is Sean O'Sullivan He's from the village I'm telling you the truth Barry O'Day is riding away from me this minute So, lady Maud, you have outwitted me Well, we'll see about it The English know how to ride, too You can go, Sean, whatever your name is The name is Sean O'Sullivan In the commotion, I strolled up to 18's room I knocked at the door Oh, it's you, Sean I have a note for you, from Barry From Barry? Hey, he's gone The English? Hey, the English But have no fear, they're not catching He gave the route to Nottingham last night I may be leaving in a kind of sudden like way, he said And if I do, give this letter to Eileen Aren't you going to read it? Oh, yes, of course, Sean What did he say? He said My dear, my dearest Tell me, why is there a doubt Within thy heart, I lean Tell me, why may be Today, however, the railroads are carrying traffic Which averages four times as much per mile And the tracks are carrying the load Even more efficiently now than they were then Such things are not the result of any one improvement They represent the combined effort of many But let's take a look at just one Improvements in the treatment and the handling of cross ties Have been so great in the past 50 years As to multiply the average life of a tie At least three times To railroads, this means that the cost of tie renewals Is at least 1,000 per mile per year less Than it would be if they still had to use ties At the rate of 50 years ago And to the nation, it means conservation of the timber Necessary to produce 70 or 80 million cross ties a year This is just another example of the result of research In Railroad Roadway Much of it carried on through the American Railway Engineering Association The railroad hour show train will return in just a moment After a brief pause for station identification Now back to Victor Herbert's operator Eileen Starring Cecil Calloway, Irene Manning, Clark Dennis And your host, Gordon McRae Here is Cecil Calloway as Sean to continue the story Did I hear you call me, darling? Darling Barry? Oh, Barry, what are you doing here? Oh, my darling, my darling I couldn't leave without holding you in my arms Without a kiss to send me on my way Oh, you should never have come here Colonel Lester's men are everywhere I'm sure they're not a Lady Maud's party Eileen, I'll be coming back for you as soon as we've won I'll be waiting Barry? Barry, my boy Yes, Sean You've got all the lights together like you told me Oh, that's good Are you with me, lads? You're leaving now? Yes My blessings on all of you My friends, I am proud of your true Irish loyalty If you want to capture me, you'll have to fight for it You'll have to kill the Lord of it, Barry Before he let him make you You'll all kindly be still And permit me to lead a dispatch I shall be most grateful Lord Camden is recalled to the Lutenancy of Ireland Well, I'm glad to hear this Hooray, hooray! And Lord Cornwallis takes his place Well, I hope he may be better He couldn't be worse than Camden Lord Cornwallis is brought with him from the King A general pardon for all persons implicated in the late uprising Oh, Barry, you're free You're free? You're free indeed, Captain O'Day My congratulations, sir And now I shall withdraw and leave the Irish to celebrate Ha ha ha ha! Did you hear what he said, Barry, my lad? You're free! You're free, sir! Ho ho ho! Oh, it is a great day, it is a dead day Ah, you're so right, Sean It's a great day tonight for the Irish For the cars we fought for and died And the time is soon to be When you'll see old Ireland Preaches the land of our love and our pride We despise and defy our oppressors And the tyrant laws we will fight But as fast as they can make them Be gone, we can break them Sure, the Irish have a great day tonight Dear sir, Barry For the cars we fought for and died And the time is soon to be When you'll see old Ireland Preaches the land of our love and our pride I, Lee and Barry, had found themselves Barry had been given his freedom And they were young And they were Irish And the whole world belonged to them And you know what happened after that, don't you? They lived happily ever after This was the custom in those days So weird Jack, in just a moment And meanwhile, this is your host, Gordon McRae Giving a vote of thanks to our excellent supporting cast Alan Reed, Eleanor Audley, Colleen Collins, and Holly O'Toole For their fine performances in Eileen With book and lyrics by Henry Blossom And music by Victor Herbert And adapted for radio by Ms. Jean Holloway And now, here is Cecil Kellaway Well, Mr. Kellaway, it was a pleasure and a privilege To have you on board tonight Oh, I almost forgot It was a great pleasure to be with you To pair with you and Ms. Manning and Mr. Dennis I'm looking forward to your performance next week Of Rodgers and Hammerstein's picture State pair Well, we're looking forward to doing it, Mr. Kellaway And our special guest will be Joe Stafford And I guess a lot of you know that Joe and I Made a lot of records together And in addition to Joe and other surprise Lovely Ms. Martha Tilton will be aboard to sing It might as well be Spring Well, it looks as though it had to pull out And so until next week, goodbye This has been presented by special arrangement With Tams Whitmark Music Library Gordon Macrae appeared by arrangement with Warner Brothers Producers of My Dream is Yours Starring Jack Carson and Doris Day This is Marvin Miller speaking Friends, the President has set aside this Month of March as Red Cross Month During this one annual appeal The Red Cross must raise funds to carry on Its important work for the entire year The Red Cross program for 1949 Includes aiding in disaster, serving the armed forces Serving veterans, promoting health and safety Serving youth and helping the unfortunate In all parts of the world Remember the Red Cross is a partnership of the people You too can help in these troubled times Through your Red Cross The railroad hour is brought to you each week At this time by 132 railroads Which are members of the Association of American Railroads Each one of these railroads is an independent business With its own operations and services Each one competes keenly with others for business Working by itself But all of them work together For better service to you