 Ladies and gentlemen the railroad hour and here comes our star-studded show train Tonight the Association of American Railroads presents a new Lawrence and Lee fantasy with music Miss Cinderella Starring Gordon Macray and his charming guest Dorothy Warren show Our choir is under the direction of Norman Lube off and our music is prepared and conducted by Carmen dragon Yes tonight another delightful musical first is brought to you by the American Railroads 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 Macray Thank you Marvin Miller and good evening ladies and gentlemen Tonight Dorothy Warren show tonight bring you a musical fable Miss Cinderella This is a story of a girl. I met who changed my whole life. We've get this The story of Cinderella When did Cinderella happen exactly in the dim days of yesteryear or just last week? I don't know after all we still have pumpkins princes fancy-dressed balls Although I must say the glass slipper craze is kind on the way That's why I keep asking myself this question Tell us once upon a time began in McCloskey shoe store and I was waiting on a customer I'd like a pair of shoes exactly like the ones I have on size for double a Frankly miss. I can't tell the style. These are rather worn down I suppose you think I don't have any better shoes to wear well after all I'm Lucinda Brown the well-known woman novelist. Oh, is that one of your own books you have there? No Please don't look at that. Well Cinderella I was just reading it for Research Well, let's see what we can find for you in the way of shoes. Now. Let me see You know it isn't every day. I get to try a shoe on a well-known novelist. Well I'm not really such a well-known novelist not yet. Anyway, but you will be I'm sure of it You've got a light inside It shines right out of your eyes and I have a hunt that you could be anything you wanted to be All you have to do is well make a wish A wish Fellas around the store call me Joe Joe Here try this for size for double a they're very nice shoes and a bargain to six dollars and forty cents six dollars But they used to be only three something That's the price. Oh, well, I would sooner go barefoot than give you the six dollars and forty cents for this ratty pair of oxfords And when my name is mentioned in the same breath with Ernest Hemingway I assure you that both of us will take our shoe business elsewhere. Good day, Miss Brown You're still wearing one of our ratty oxfords. Oh, I beg your pardon. Well It's not raining. Yeah afraid it is your feet will get soaked in these old shoes To tell you the truth. Mr. Joe Joe. I had a story I was sure they'd buy for real romances magazine, but they didn't The editor says they want sordid realism and everything I write seems to come out like Cinderella Oh, so that's why you're reading it. Well, I've got to find out why I'm what I'm writing wrong So I can write something right instead of subconsciously stealing from Cinderella Tell me couldn't I buy just one shoe. Well, I I don't think you see I think I can just about make three dollars and twenty cents. Oh, we can't break up a pair here Take the money not just a minute. Just a minute. Nice Joe. Goodbye Tinda Brown you're a thief No, I'm not. Yes, you are you steal shoes and stories You haven't even paid the rent on this silly little cold water walk-up apartment Well, maybe I'll find something in this book to cheer me up The story of Cinderella there was a girl named Stepmother and two stepsisters Gisella and Bella. They made her fetch and carry and do all the drudgery around the house Did you bring in the wood and sweep the mat polish the floor and feed the cat so the plume on your sister's hat As if you were nailed to the floor wish someone's knocking go answer the door To the ball stepmother fathered by booze and the relas who think they're entitled to dress just as well as There's sisters who never do housework at all now hurry up girls. We'll be late for the ball And fiddle the do what in the world's the matter with you? Who are you? I could give you three guesses then give you another but you never would guess I'm your fairy godmother. Oh With enough of this chit-chat and sociable chinning. Why do you cry when you ought to be grinning? And a double poo-poo. I know positively a plan it will do now stand very tall on the tips of your toes We'll see what my magic can do for your clothes. I'll flourish my wand with a fiddle to the abracadabra and ETC That's you little cinder girl dressed for the ball Pumpkin you save for a pie. I'll make it a coach in the blink of a knot Believe it just climb in and ride now by one will invite a few magical forces to alter these mice in the six prancing horses Footwear that none can surpass to exquisite slippers of crystalline glass The magic will last until midnight and your gown will be tatters and patches again Your horses and coachmen and carriage my dear at the 12th stroke of midnight will all disappear I leave the palace before midnight I promise you and thank you for making all my wishes come true a Homeward bound automobile hums along a country highway Off to the side is a railroad track over this highway of steel roars and approaching free Here comes one of your favorite sites They carry just about everything why they even haul automobiles just like the one you're riding That's right freight trains do carry complete automobiles, but they do more than that For they transport the parts that go into your car to the assembly line that puts it together And they haul the materials that make up those parts from forest mill mine and factory In short America's railroad tracks running from one end of the nation to the other or an integral portion of one huge assembly line an assembly line that brings together all the parts and materials that are built into the car you drive But the railroads job in making your car possible does not stop at the automobile assembly plant For they continue their task by hauling hundreds of thousands of finished cars to cities and towns all over the country and Although you may not have thought of it this way the railroads go right on contributing to the enjoyment and safety With which you operate your car For over their tracks the railroads handle the vast bulk of the nation's freight traffic between cities Actually handle more than all other forms of transportation combined And the more of America's freight that moves over the steel highways, which the railroads built and keep up The less is the damage done to the public highways by heavy freight movements And the greater will be your satisfaction and safety Every time you drive your car Now here is act two of the new laurence and lee play with music miss cinderella Starring gordon mackray and dorothy warren shoal with special music composed by carmen dragon While the rain pours down outside the window of her little walk-up flat Lucinda brown has curled up in her bed wearing one old shoe and one new She's reading with deep attention not one of her own stories, which nobody ever buys But the story of cinderella At the royal palace cinderella climbed the great spiral staircase and when she entered the ballroom everything stopped All the guests in my ballroom were speechless with awe at the lovely and delicate princess they saw The princess for her part seemed just as impressed Well, i'd never seen people so fancily dressed There were elegant hurls and debonair dukes sporting the latest in powdered peruchs Barrelettes coronet princesses crowns the marquesa smiles and the dowager's crowns I caught just a glimpse of gizella and bella who never suspected their maid cinderella had Blossom so bravely from cinders and shyness. Oh, look that must be the young When she sang to her knees in a curtsy Good evening your highness may I have the pleasure of this dance with you? I should be deeply honored your highness. Let the music commence Oh I'm sorry to say that I don't know your name. Oh dear for this evening. I think I must And until the tune walks the princess and I will continue to walk Princess who slippers are made out of glass Clock in the top of the tower Little princess come back to one tiny slipper Size for dumb You honor us with this visit. Thank you Dear ladies were you present at the ball last night? Yes, indeed. Of course we were there. We were there This little glass slipper was dropped on the stair and the princess who wore it delighted my eyes But she's quite disappeared. Would you try it for size? For the girl who can wear it will answer My soul your toes together and make the shoe fit. All right, mother Then my other dear angel you must do it, please Fold up your arches to sell and squeeze Who fits the foot then the foot fits the shoe These are all of the ladies in the house. I trust there's our maid But she'd cover you over with dust even so my dear lady I think I should try this shoe on her foot Not a chance must slip by she sleeps in a room at the top of the stand Room where cinderella slept and he knocked on the door Miss frown lucinda, but i'm just coming to the best part of the story. I've got something for you It's joe from mcloskey shoe store. Oh, oh, excuse me joe Hello Come in You know You know the funniest thing I was reading cinderella where the prince comes to try the glass slipper on her foot Well, he knocks on the door and just then you knocked Well, I I don't have a glass slipper, but I do have a shoe that you can see right through How did you find me? Just like the prince in your story from your shoe. Look The rejection slip from real romances magazine Uh, I stuffed that inside my shoe to keep my stocking off the sidewalk Well, it's lucky the editor had your address on it You see I wanted to give you the other new shoe. Oh, but you can't you'll get in trouble with mr. mcloskey. Miss brown. I have some news for you I am mr. mcloskey. No junior Seems to me that you ought to stop writing cinderella stories because it's a lot more fun living them How do I do that? Just to point me your private and personal prince charming is all Well, you know I was beginning to think that stories like cinderella were strictly once upon a time But uh, I guess a girl can still find a prince charming nowadays Even in a shoe store, huh? And you never can tell how a thing like this will wind up. Oh, yes, you can these stories always end the same way And they lived happily ever after Oh We'll be back in just a moment and meanwhile our hearty thanks to elvia allman verna felton june foray isabel jewel and to our entire company Miss cinderella was an original musical play by laurence and lee Who also wrote the lyrics to the lovely cinderella music composed especially by our own carman dragon? The railroad hour is brought to you each week at this same time by the american railroads marvin The average freight car you see on the railroads is big and heavy It's built that way to do the big tough transportation job that america's vast production demands To accommodate these cars the railroads with their own money have built and maintained their own heavy-duty highways of steel And over these tracks moves the bulk of america's freight freight that might otherwise further crowd the highways over which you drive your car Well, gordon to what magic land of make-believe are we traveling next monday night dorthy? We're staying in the fantasy mood, but we're coming right down to earth our story is fantasy impromptu and as you might guess It's a story of show pan A show pan i think it is i forgot to ask the maestro set to the memorable music of that great composer Meet you in my orca next monday gordon. Okay, dorthy and bring your umbrella. Good night. Good night You were certainly in a chanting cindy and cinderella All aboard friends. It looks as though ready to pull out and so until next monday night and fantasy impromptu This is gordon mackray saying good night Gordon mackray can be seen starring in warner brothers about face our choir is under the direction of norman lube off Our music is prepared and conducted by carmen dragon This is marvin miller saying goodbye until next week for the american railroads now stay tuned for your monday night of music on nbc