 Ladies and gentlemen the railroad out and here comes the star-studded show trade Tonight the Association of American Railroads presents the famous Gilbert and Sullivan comic opera the Mikado Starring Gordon McRae and his two guests Kenny Baker and Evelyn Kate Our choir is out of the direction of Norman Lube off and the music is arranged and conducted by Carmen dragon Yes tonight another great musical hit is brought to you by the American Railroad The same railroads that 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 our star Gordon McRae And good evening ladies and gentlemen tonight. We're bringing you the charming and delightful Mikado Set in a world that only Gilbert and Sullivan could create. This is the town of Kittipoo Kenny Baker is our wandering minstrel Nankipoo Lovely Evelyn cases yum-yum and I've landed myself a job as the Lord High Executioner a fellow named Coco and all these others will let them introduce themselves Will you tell me where I can find a lovely maiden named yum-yum who are you and why do you want to know? Gather around me while I tell you All in patches of ballad songs and snatches I'm dreaming of it's cut and dry and scrambled before the mighty troops a tool to keep you Heave the captain wrong with a yo-heep hole for the wind is free her anchors a tip and a helms a leaf A bra for the homeward bound But the happiest hour sailor sees is when he's done and it's in patches It is with yum-yum minstrel well a year ago. I fell in love with yum-yum But she was engaged to a cheap tailor named Coco Broken-hearted I I left town But imagine my delight when I heard that Coco had been condemned to death for flirting So I've come back to find my yum-yum It is true that Coco was condemned to death But he was reprieved at the last moment and raised to the rank of Lord High Executioner Coco Lord High Executioner. Yes, and I'm poobah Lord High everything else Lord of the Treasury Lord Chief Justice Lord High Admiral and Lord Mayor all rolled into one That's quite a roll Wasting your time Yum-yum is on her way home from school to marry the Lord High Executioner today. No He comes his excellency Coco I'm very touched by this reception and I fear there are plenty of people whose deaths will be a distinct gain to Society some day it may happen that a victim must be found. I've got a little list I've got a little list of society offenders who might well be underground and who never would be missed Who never would be missed? There's the pestilential nuisances who write for autographs and people who have flabby hands and Unitating laughs all children who are up in dates and for you with them flat All persons who in shaking hands take hands with you like that and all third persons who unspoiling Tater-tates insist they'd none of them be missed They'd none of them be missed And that nice I prized nuisance who just now is rather right the judicial humorist I've got him on the list all funny fellows comic men and clowns of private life They'd none of them be missed they'd none of them be missed and apologetic statesmen of a compromising kind such as what do you call them the thing of a Bob and likewise never mind and And what's his name and also you know who the task of filling up the blank side rather leave to you But it really doesn't matter whom you put upon the list for they'd none of them be missed They'd none of them be missed Here comes yum-yum at his schoolmates Please bow and a characteristic Japanese attitude and now yum-yum my future bride kiss me Yes, your excellency Yum-yum. Oh Yes, my beloved beloved Who is this sir? I have the misfortune to love yum-yum. Please don't be angry Angry not a bit my boy. I love her myself Take him away Let me have just two minutes with it very well, but by Japanese time. That's pretty fast. I'll be right back. Oh Yum-yum. I love you so I love you too minstrel, but I must confess something yum-yum. I am the son of the Mikado Yes, you see a few years ago an old crow named catasha fell in love with me My father ordered me to marry her or go to the scaffold. I couldn't do that So well I I left town and took up the second trombone And then I saw you time's up. Oh Farewell yum-yum farewell Nankipu your excellency as postmaster general. I have a special message If you don't execute somebody soon, he's going to have the executor executed That's terrible. I'd lose space you lose your whole head Just a minute. Ah you Nankipu. Yes What are you doing with that rope? I'm going to kill myself because you're going to marry yum-yum. Oh, that's silly You'll box the job Let the professional like me do it Look if if you let me marry yum-yum today in a month you can behead me that's impossible I'm going to marry yum-yum myself. She'll be a widow in a month and you can marry her then Hmm makes sense. I'll do it. Good Japanese equivalent for here. Yeah It's catasha the old crow if Nankipu was going to marry anybody. It's going to be me my dear woman. That's impossible Oh He's going to marry yum-yum your anger play bury I think you will marry I think you had better to come and join our expression Under the second act of the Mikado in a moment, but first Think of what you get when you buy a railroad ticket a ticket on a railroad train buys for you a lot more than just Transportation from one place to another it buys you for one thing comfort and relaxation You don't have to keep an eye on the traffic lights You don't have to watch out for other drivers on the highway the conductor and the engineer will run the train and all you have to do is to relax and ride and watch America roll by your car window and Your railroad ticket buys you spaciousness on the train. You don't have to keep your seat You don't have to stay in one place or even in one car there are lounges inviting you to a sociable visit with your fellow passengers and Dining cars where you may enjoy a snack or a regular meal And when night comes there are sleeping cars with births and rooms inviting you to slumber all as you ride And when you buy a train ticket you buy dependability for the trains run in all kinds of weather Most important of all your ticket buys you safety safety to a degree which year in and year out is not even Approached by any other form of passenger transportation in America So when you buy a railroad ticket remember what else you are buying besides transportation You are buying relaxation and enjoyment. You are buying a look at your country as you travel through it You are buying a chance to read or to write to work or to talk with your fellow travelers You are buying spaciousness and reliability and safety all for the price of a railroad ticket We're ready for act 2 of Gilbert and Sullivan's the Mikado Starring Gordon Macrae as Coco and his guests Kenny Baker at Nankipoo and Evelyn Kase is yum-yum Hopefully the moon is shining for I am to marry my menstrual boy Hello moon, how lovely you are. You seem to smile at me Discovered a horrible law. Yes yum-yum. You see when the married man is beheaded his wife is buried alive So if you marry me, I doom you to death. Oh dear Here's a howdy-doo. Here's a howdy mess in a month or less. I must die without a wedding. Let the bitter tears I'm shedding witness my distress. Here's a pretty mess. Here's a pretty mess Here's a state of things to her life's he claims Matrimony old devotion doesn't seem to suit her notion barry old it brings. Oh, here's a state of things Here's a state of things Listen everybody the Mikado is arriving in Titipoo. Oh that old crow catashore has brought him Oh dear me we haven't time to behead you Nankipoo. Oh Well, we will just say we've beheaded you and I'll make out an affidavit and swear to it all 15 of me will swear to it Here comes the Mikado leave quickly Nankipoo if he finds you alive It won't look as if I beheaded you. Yes come yum-yum bow down bow down to the Mikado Where's the Lord I executioner here your majesty and your wishes have been attended to an Execution has taken place We've beheaded the minstrel Nankipoo Nankipoo My dear fellow you have executed the air for the throne of Japan Oh, no, and it seems to me. There's a punishment for that crime Punishment something amusing with the boiling oil Or melted lead Your majesty You just give me two minutes. I think I can straighten this out. I grant you two minutes Nankipoo Yes, yes, Coco you've got to make an appearance to show the Mikado you've still got your head No, sir if I show up catashore will claim me but If you'd marry catashore then I could put my head back on before you even cut it off Me marry catashore that old crow when catashore is married Existence will be as welcome as the flowers in spring The flowers that bloom in the spring fall a brief promise of merry sunshine As we merrily dance and we sing for our we welcome the hope that they bring Of a summer of roses and wine of a summer of roses and wine And that's what we mean when we say that a thing Is welcome as flowers that bloom in the spring Flowers that bloom in the spring In the spring I have nothing to do with the case I've got to take under my wing for a the most an attractive old thing for law with a caricature Of a face with a caricature of a face And that's what I mean when I say oh la la la oh bother the flowers of spring Go ahead Coco. There's catashore now Well, at least she's a little prettier than boiling oil or melted lead He's to be headed my beloved Catisha, I love you You don't marry me I should perish on the spot. Oh, don't be silly nobody ever died of a broken heart Oh, cat. He saw you don't know what you're saying listen On a tree by a river a little Sang will oh And I said to him picky bird why do you sit singing will oh Is it weakness of intellect bird with a shake of his poor little hair It will it will Slapped at his chest as he sat on that ball singing well It will it will oh And a cold perspiration be spanked It will oh he saw that he sighed and a girl he gave Then he plunged himself into the beer and that was blighted affection that made him It will oh And if you remain callous and all at once Then I'll marry you your majesty everything's been cleared up Nankipu come out. Come on. I'm going to marry catashore Father where how did this happen? He still seems to have his head your majesty It's this way when you say let a thing be done. It's as good as done You said execute somebody so Nankipu with as good as dead a very satisfactory explanation his lord high toast master I call for the Japanese equivalent of they all lived happily ever after Meanwhile, this is Gordon McRae giving a vote of thanks to our excellent supporting cast Arthur Q Brian Verna Felton and Lou Merrill the Mikado of course is by Gilbert and Sullivan And it was adapted for radio by Lawrence and Lee The railroad hour is brought to you each week at this time by the American railroads These railroads are your hometown partners. They provide jobs for your neighbors They buy supplies in your town and they pay local taxes just as you and I Thus the railroads are more than just railroads They are citizens and mighty important citizens in your hometown and now here are Kenny Baker and Evelyn case Thank you everybody and thank you Gordon We're back from the fantastic town of titty pooh to the fantastic town of Hollywood. It was fun Gordon Thanks for asking us. Oh, you were wonderful. Yum. Yum Evelyn, but Nankipu here was a little better at the hanky-panky Yeah, I got the girl, but I bet you get the girl next week Gordon well, I wanted if you were gonna say that Kenny I think you might be right We're presenting Sigmund Romberg's romantic opera at the desert song and our guests will be the lovely light opera star Dorothy Sarnoff We'll be listening. Good night. Sure. Well. Good night everybody. Good night Looks is all ready to pull out and so until next week. Goodbye The Mikado was presented by special arrangement with Tams Whitmark music library Gordon McCray appeared by arrangement with Warner Brothers Produces of the hasty heart starring Ronald Reagan, Patricia Neal and Richard Todd Our choirs under the direction of Norman Luboff our music arranged and conducted by Common Dragon This is Marvin Miller saying goodbye until next week for the Association of American Railroad Next it's the voice of Firestone on