 Transcribed ladies and gentlemen the railroad hour And here comes our star-studded show train Tonight the Association of American Railroads brings you a popular version of balsy mortal opera the bohemian girl Starring Gordon Macrae and his celebrated guests from the Metropolitan Opera Dorothy Kirsten A choir is under the direction of Norman Lube off and our music is prepared and conducted by Carmen dragon Yes tonight another thrilling musical drama is brought to you by the American railroads the same railroads that bring you most of the Food you eat the colds you wear the fuel you burn and all the other things you use in your daily life And now here is our star Thank you, Marlon Miller and good evening ladies and gentlemen Tonight I shall be fattiest and Dorothy Kirsten is our lean in our railroad our impression of the bohemian girl The wind that blows through the pine toms of the Austrian forests Also fans the campfires of the wandering gypsies There are no marble halls in the mountain wilds And only the boughs of the forest make a roof over our heads But a man or a woman can be happy serving in the band of the gypsy king The gypsies life you read makes us Oh Yes, my love Do you ever dream all the time when I'm with you Arlene? I dream of everything lovely in the world And I don't even have to close my eyes Sometimes this gypsy life we lead seems to be a vision And the dream I have over and over again and again my dream seems to be reality What have you dreamt my love? Tell me Do you love me still? My love is as deep as deepness Bright as brilliance eternal as eternity yet There is a mystery which mars our happiness Who am I? Where did I come from? Am I worthy of you? Oh my love I This mark on my arm I have seen you looking at it many times And on your face. There is a touch of memory A distant pain Tell me Thaddeus Help me solve this mystery I will tell you And upon my arm Who's more in his deathroath To join then the village of arneheim But he was going to tell me My child it is sometimes better not to know too much The village fair is to start and they expect us to dance and sing for them My love Come take my hand You have long been betrothed according to the customs of the gypsies Why not make this fair day your wedding day? I will not force Arlene until she is satisfied in her mind I owe you my life And long ago I gave you my love Take my hand Or do you not wish a gypsy bride Arlene Tell me who is the beautiful child who dances so exuberantly? That's your excellency is our bride Within the hour she will be married And bring her here. I should like to wish her happiness Yes your excellency Arlene go speak with the count but only for a moment I pray you We do not wish to delay the wedding ceremony Of course Your excellency My child I wish you much joy in your lifetime Long ago I had a daughter But now the marble halls of my castle are empty and I am a lonely old man What happened to her sire? Stolen from her room many years ago She was only a child of six Sire Someday perhaps I shall find her But do not let me spoil the happiness of your wedding day Sire tell me would you know your daughter if you saw her again? Only by a mark A mark? On her arm My child My daughter Father it is the man who saved my life many years ago who is to become my husband today Thaddeus Where has he gone? Thaddeus Do not leave me my child on the day of our reunion Into the forest where gypsies live You must go where you belong Arlene To the marble halls you dreamt about I I cannot go with you No But I only ask and hope that you will think of me and remember Please remember And for the second act of the bohemian girl in just a moment If you were asked what it is that makes possible the world's highest standard of living here in the united states You would find it pretty difficult to single out any one thing that contributes more than any other To the production and distribution of america's vast wealth of goods For really it takes a combination of our rich natural resources our unparalleled agricultural production and industrial capacity And the freedom of enterprise of our people to turn out all the things we need and use in our daily lives And must have for our defense And essential to this combination is our continent-wide mass transportation system whose backbone is the nation's railroads Day in and day out in all seasons and in all parts of the country Trains are ever rolling carrying raw materials and finished goods the products of farm forest and mine of mill and factory These trains are doing the nation's big transportation job Supplying the basic service that this big country must have For our railroads produce more intercity freight transportation service than all other forms of transportation combined And only railroads can do a job like this and do it with an overall economy in the use of fuel materials and manpower Which no other form of transportation offering general services even approaches Without this basic all commodity and low cost moving job being done by railroads We could not produce and live as we do That's why it's so important to all of us that these essential railroads be allowed to keep themselves strong Ready to go on meeting the big needs of our big commerce and the growing demands of national defense To be able to do this railroads must be permitted to charge freight rates Which will produce revenues adequate to meet their cost of operation And yield earnings that will attract the capital investment necessary to continue their large scale program of improving their service For the nation and for you two of the laurence and lee version of the bohemian girl starring gordon macray As Thaddeus and dorothy kirsten as arlene How empty the forest is go to her claim her i cannot i am her father's enemy Everywhere i turn i i hear her voice Oh my boy, you are listening to the wind and the trees and the sound of your own heart No It is only the wind and the sound of memory Can call it I will never see her again How many years have we been friends Thaddeus? Since you escaped from your pursuers the soldiers of austria Yes, and you gave me refuge here in your green forest. I shall not stand by and see you hurt again When you saved that child from death and her father was not grateful I stole her from a room Say the word and i shall steal her again Oh my friend Arlene is no longer a child She's a woman now Her home is within the marble halls of arnhem castle then go to the castle stand before them And fly your banners in the face of your enemy I will do it then itself For what good is it to live if you die each minute? I shall go to arnhem castle You are not serious gypsy The daughter of account cannot marry a paris begabond It's better to die as my comrades in the field of battle have died than to stand before you hearing such words Calling your soldiers they were wish to capture me to kill me when i tell you who i am When the fair land of poland was plowed by the hoof of the ruthless invader when my Deal to the bosom and flame to the roof And her triumph all right In that moment of danger when freedom invoked all the fabulous sons of her pride In a phalanx as dauntless as freedom eryalt i fought and i fled by her star My bears is thine own Let here are my papers I am a captain in the army of poland but just The enemy of austria In the forests of the gypsies Your daughter and i were not enemies my boy in your gypsy camp You have not heard the news from the battlefield the war is over We are now at peace your country and mine today the fair land of austria Clasped the hand of the fair land of poland I give you my blessing and the belated thanks of an old man Who thought he had lost a daughter But who has gained a son arlene Oh my love it seems as if a great storm has been raising about us and now look Suddenly the sun shines and the whole world is beautiful and you're in my arms You Be a gypsy bride with the costume of the gypsy and the trees of the forests as my wedding canopy Very well my child arlene. We shall be always together in marble hall and green forests Do you remember your dream my love it is very easy to remember a dream especially when it comes true Buffy kerson will be back in just a moment and meanwhile Our thanks to her butterfield who was the count to bill conrad who was devil's hoof and to our entire company Bov's bohemian girl was prepared for the railroad hour by laurence and lee The railroad hour is brought to you each week at this time by the american railroads Only railroads can produce the mass transportation this nation must have to live as it does and defend itself For this reason our railroads must be kept healthy and strong at all times And this can be accomplished only if they are allowed to earn adequate revenues And revenues will not be adequate unless the railroads are permitted to charge freight rates Which are in keeping with today's levels of wages taxes and prices And now here again as our lovely guest star miss dorothy kirsten It was a real joy singing with you tonight, gordon. Well, dorothy, we ought to do it again sometime like uh, maybe next week All right, gordy. What shall we sing about more marble halls dotty, but very different music You're going to be a princess and i'm going to be your brother the prince in cold port is delightful jubilee I can hardly wait to begin the beginning and not only that We're going to take a trip to the moon on gossamer wings. That sounds like a fabulous night See you next week. Oh Well, it looks as though we're ready to pull out and so until next monday night and cold port is jubilee This is gordon mackray saying good night The bohemian girl was presented by special arrangement with the tam's whipmark music library Gordon mackray can soon be seen in warner brother starlet our choir is under the direction of norman lube off And our music is prepared and conducted by carmen dragon This is marvin miller saying goodbye until next week for the american railroads Now keep tuned for your monday night of music on Preceding was transcribed next it's