 Ladies and gentlemen the railroad hour and here comes our summer show train Night the association of American railroads presents a new dramatic setting for the immortal rimski Korsakov music of Scheherazade Starring Gordon Macrae and his guest charming Dorothy Warren show Our choir is under the direction of Norman Lube off and our music is prepared and conducted by Carmen dragon Tonight the world premiere of a new musical play is brought to you transcribed 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 Macrae evening ladies and gentlemen Tonight you will hear the glorious music of rimski Korsakov presented for the first time as an American light opera by the messes Lawrence and Lee I Should be Caleb of Samarkand the most exalted and imperial monarch of the Plains of Central Asia the Sultan Shariah And Dorothy Warren show will be Scheherazade Came to pass in the 13th year of his reign that the most excellent Shariah Prince of Samarkand it proclaimed throughout his dominions yay, even unto the very borders there are a festival of 40 days and 40 nights I Really called for my grand vizier Abu Hassan I'm here of mighty Shariah Prince of the Sun in light of the moon ineffable Lord of all the dominions. Yes, yes Yes, I know Tell me as the entertainment go well throughout your entire land your people are celebrating joy is in every heart Only one thing troubles them sire. Oh, they do not know exactly what they are Celebrating and we would inquire Silence is not enough that the Sultan of Samarkand commands it True your Majesty if I order a man's head chopped off. Does anyone ask me why never your Majesty? And if I order my subjects to be happy who dares to question my imperial command No, no perfect one then I say let happiness prevail. We are happy science. See how happy I am I Know that you are miserable because there is no woman in your house I have two lovely daughters Dunya's odd and share is odd, but no wife That's for me. My bride has long been the guest of Allah in paradise You ask why we celebrate Hassan this festival honors my wife my queen sober day Tell me Hassan Have you ever seen her equal? The olive perfection of her skin her eyes like polished opals and her form like the undulating sands of Coconor Your Majesty is indeed favored among men my poor Hassan How empty your life must be? We must find you a wife. I have searched the market place bar Such creatures as my sober they do not dwell among the carts and carriages in the heat of the noonday sun These frail creatures are boo are night-blooming flowers The fragrance must be sought by starlight in the untrodden ways Red with your Majesty's cousin Shazan He lies No, sir. I am green has gone. Alas. It is true. Oh perfect one for months. Oh bidet has been plotting against you I was not told Why was I not told? Who would dare to speak out against the king's favor is pull out the guard pursue them What is that that music? That is the band of musicians with your Majesty has ordered to play for this night's entertainment Must be smashed and the players thrown into the dungeon The celebration is over. I Swear I am the Sultan of Samarkand. What has happened this night shall not occur again Never shall a wife be free to sharia your Majesty for swears the company of women They by the beard of the prophet I shall wear every day if I choose On the wedding night the sounding of the 12th stroke of midnight Each bride shall die This is the oath of Sharia May Allah be my witness No Queen of Samarkand shall live past the hour of midnight These one Go fetch me your wife. Oh wife your Majesty. Oh wife. Is someone singing? You are pale. Oh Can it be difficult to say a daughter? I I feel it is my share is odd Yes, I only because she might offend your Majesty with her ugly face Few moments ago. You called her lovely. Oh a joke. Oh perfect one She had his odd has the ears of an owl the face of a bat the complexion of a decrepit crow He has the voice of a nightingale her only grace Go bring me this crow of yours Abu Hassan The chance we shall transform her into a bird of paradise Returns of the second act of a thousand and one nights in just a moment Tonight the railroad hour is honored in presenting for a brief message the honorable James K. Newdson member of the Interstate Commerce Commission and a distinguished administrator of the Defense Transportation Administration Mr. Newdson Through service by normal routes has been largely restored on all railroads running through the Kansas, Missouri flood area Behind that brief announcement is a tremendous job done by the railroads First in keeping traffic moving through the use of alternative routes and then in the quick repair of broken lines and prompt restoration of service This magnificent rehabilitation job is being carried out by the railroads at their own expense and without financial assistance It includes not only the repair of tracks But the rehabilitation of terminals and shops and of the scores of locomotives and thousands of freight cars caught in the flood waters The railroads assembled approximately 17,000 high-grade box cars in the southwest in preparation for the movement of winter wheat The movement was delayed by heavy rains so that part of the southwestern harvest must be moved at the same time as The crops farther north Meanwhile many of the cars assembled were made unusable by the flood So now with the carp supply thus diminished railroads must undertake a double task Carry out that task as well as to maintain the serviceable car supply and locomotive fleet throughout the nation The railroads will need steel and other materials for their work of maintenance repair and operations This requirement Complements the need for steel to carry out the program of building new freight cars and locomotives Which the railroads undertook to meet the demands of national defense This country can have and use no more of anything than it can haul The great bulk of hauling is done in railroad cars That's why the Defense Transport Administration continues to urge upon the authorities responsible for allocations of materials That there be no lessening of the flow of materials materials essential both for railroad operation And also for the program of increasing railroad capacity as the commercial and defense needs of the nation increase Here is the second act of our railroad hour premiere of a thousand and one nights Starring Gordon Macrae is the Sultan Sharia and Dorothy Warren shoulder's the fabulous Yes, my father the burden of my ears falls upon my white hairs like the rocks of an avalanche Why are you sad my father? Have you heard of the terrible oath of our Sultan the sharia all Samarkand knows and you know What must happen to his wife? Precisely at the hour of media. I know Allah why have you blessed me with a beautiful daughter? Stick out your tongue like this father father Try to touch the end of your nose Can you cross your eyes? now now scowl Which is no use nothing succeeds in making you ugly shahariz. I would become an old woman Overnight if it would make my father happy a last shahariz on I fear you will never become an old woman at all The king wants to marry you And when the marriage feast is over when the sun has gone into the caverns underneath the earth I will never see the light of my life again Do not despair my father sharia has taken an oath by the prophet against all Womankind no bride shall live to see the dawn after her wedding day And I swear that I shall live to see the glory of another sunrise Which oath is stronger the kings or mine? Allah shall decide The king is pleased with this bride is he know already the pleasantness of a voice Does the court wish to hear a song from the new queen? Sing my love I Do not wish to sing the king commands you to sing and the queen refuses to sing You know my old know how long you shall remain queen Advise you to sing while there is still breath within you will a song spin out the hours of my breathing sharia Dare to call me sharia that is your name, and I am your wife Refer to be called oh perfect one who you aren't perfect You spilled salad oil all over your tunic and your turbans on crooked. No one dares speak fast to the king You shall die. I shall die anyway Enough clear the court all of it. Take you leave from the banquet hall Marriage feast is ended Seat you your majesty. Who is this child? It is my sister dunya's odd Can you deny her the privilege of bidding me a last farewell? Oh perfect one Let it be brief She harrots odd my sister I cannot sleep again until you tell me the ending of the story not now little dunya's odd But I must know how the story ends story Story what story did you not know almighty king that my sister is gifted above all of Alice creatures in the skill of telling tales Marvelous mystical tales, which are almost beyond the power of believing. Oh, I Must do such a tale. Is there time his majesty has pressing business at the hour of midnight That business will be attended to never fear But until the stroke of 12 you will entertain me with one of your marvelous adventures The ocean of the indies were a great storm seized upon his sails and Smoked his ship upon a rock multiply themselves Until a mighty eagle swept down out of the cloud Grasp Sinbad's collar in his claws and Soared with him across the angry waves an eagle Verily did the eagle snatch Sinbad from the jaws of the waves Else would my story be swiftly ended full of glass Which shown with colors which even the rainbow dreams not up and corked up within the bottle was a genius A genie a genie. Was it a good genie or a wicked genie? Oh, you must judge that for yourself my husband and he leaked in one string top and Seizing a thunderbolt in each hand He readied himself to fling the daggers of lightning at poor sin bad who dropped to his knees and begged for mercy What then what happened then sin bad took the bottle of many hues in which he had found the genie imprisoned And he himself called inside the glass Drawing the cork in after him genius Then sin bad opened his mouth to pronounce the magic words which the genie dare not utter But the sound of their syllables had escaped him. No, he could not remember the magic words Go on continue What happened there first voyage of sin bad the sailor Stay What do I see to the east it is the glow of sunrise. Oh perfect one. I'll have preserved me. I have broken my vow name I husband I swore you should die at midnight, but I heard not the striking of the hour Your tale of sin bad has bewitched me Allah has cast this spell upon you Sharia to preserve you from your own wickedness And it is a spell of love Is it love truly? What have you made Sharia the captive of your tongue I am the captive Oh Sultan for I thought to build a bridge of words between us to span the sunset to sunrise But Allah has built instead a bridge between our hearts It has been a magical night, but only one night. I Decrease should be a thousand more a Thousand and one nights of such fabulous tales if you seek for it The darkness has more to give you Sharia your entire company Music for a thousand and one nights was by Rimsky Corsac off lyrics and libretto by Lawrence and Lee The railroad hours brought to you each week at this time by the American railroads The recent and unprecedented flood in Kansas and Missouri Created an aftermath of damaged homes and destitute people in urgent need of assistance You can help these fellow countrymen in their time of need through a contribution to your local chapter of the American Red Cross Which is working day and night to alleviate the suffering Now here are Gordon Macrae and Dorothy Warren Schold again Gordon you killed me as the Sultan Sharia Not quite Dorothy and I'm glad because we can use you next week It's the premiere performance of long ago a lovely nostalgic musical based on Thomas Bailey Aldrich's famous Marjorie Dawson. I've just had a peek at the schedule of shows in the weeks ahead Gordon I'm terribly excited about them. Well every Monday night is an opening night Dorothy on the show train For instance on August 27th. We'll have the world premiere of Danny Freel a delightful Irish opera and on September 3rd You're going to be Mark Twain for a musical romp called innocent so broad. See you back in 1910 next Monday night Gordon That's a day Dorothy 1910 to be exact Oh Well, it looks as though we're ready to pull out and so until next Monday night and long ago. This is Gordon Macrae saying Bye Transcribed in Hollywood Gordon Macrae can be seen in Warner Brothers on Moonlight Bay Our choir is under the direction of Norman Luboff and our music is prepared and conducted by Carmen dragon This is Marvin Miller saying goodbye until next week for the American Railroad Now stay tuned for your Monday night of music on NBC Your Monday evening of music continues with the telephone hour on NBC