 transcribed ladies and gentlemen the railroad hour here comes our star-studded show pray appreciation of American railroads presents the sparkling musical comedy girl crazy starring William Bendix Doris Day Joan Edwards your host Gordon McRae and the music of Common Dragons Orchestra yes tonight another great musical comedy 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 McRae thank you and good evening ladies and gentlemen this is Gordon McRae helping to bring you another in our series of musical successes tonight the railroad hour show train presents the gay George Gershwin hit girl crazy when girl crazy open on Broadway it features such stars as Ginger Rogers Ethel Merman Alan Kearns and Willie Howard tonight playing those same star parts you'll hear Doris Day Joan Edwards yours truly Gordon McRae and in the comedy role of Skeeter Mulligan the New York taxi cab driver that lovable lug William Bendix dear Eloise I take my typewriter in hand to write you this letter explaining how come I didn't keep our engagement in Brooklyn on the night of last June 29th I was in my cab at Broadway and 48th Street but all of a sudden a young fella throws a couple of suitcases in the back and says Holland Tunnel driver head west and keep going okay buddy if this ain't the town you're looking for your auto luck cuz I'm out of kiss now relax Mulligan this is it see that sign Husterville Arizona population male 58 female zero no women no wonder the place looks dead now while I ask those cowboys over in the hotel veranda where we can get some gas why don't you sort of mosey around and take a look at the sites what sites when you've seen one grain of sand you've seen them all I'll be right back howdy boys where's your gas station ain't got one horses eat hay are you sure this is Husterville sure I'm sure you were stopping overnight yeah a good long night two years to be exact my father owns the Churchill Ranch out here and he decided I should have some interest other than girls and with no women in this town I see why he picked it what do you fellas do here anyway oh mostly we just buy their time right boys buy your time yeah you call that doing something yes sir I sure do brother I'm buying my time that's the kind of guy while other folks grow dizzy I keep busy my time come on Churchill you're gonna be here two years you might as well get used to it well I'll try I'm buying my time that's the kind of guy I'm beginning on Monday right through Sunday next you found to have this year this year just keep on the kind of guy there's no regret and I'm sitting here and buying my time they got shot another sheriff will probably mean somebody killed the sheriff and happens around here put your regular hey looks like they caught the following dollars this time you shove and get your head smile again oh this ought to be good it will be like Sanders is a tough customer that angle with oh wait a minute wait a minute this is all a mistake I'm innocent I didn't shoot the sheriff look at my face is it the face of a murderer let me put it another way that's enough stirring him up look just let me say one more word if I can only think of a word to say stop I'd the word thanks for I'm sorry to spoil you fellas neck tie party but my taxi driver couldn't have shot your sheriff it's less than 10 minutes since we blew into town what a case of Rick and I home around a great no I'm hanging so long as it's over a bar come on hey you better stick to ginger ale hello Jake hi Molly well this explains it there aren't any women in this town only angels Molly don't live here she just works here in the post office and here's the letter for you stranger I take it you're Danny Churchill that's me hmm let it from Sam Mason he wouldn't have written it if he'd known it would introduce me to the prettiest gal in Arizona hey that's a thought you deliver all the letters I get yes I'm gonna have everybody in New York right to me is tell me is New York with Wiley Wildtown oh New York's the most wonderful place in the world tell me you managed to keep busy yes I managed to keep busy not too busy to go to a dance once in a while or play a game of tennis I hope yeah you got plenty to learn about the West Churchill well hold on Jake's right Jake's right Mr. Churchill you must think your father's place is one of those dude ranches dude ranch say that's an idea I never thought of that what do you mean I'll turn dad's place into a dude's ranch girls cocktails dancing you just watch what little Danny's gonna do for this town and you know I'm the chaffee to make you happy I'll shine your shoesies and chase your bluesies old lady would you or tell me could you use me I'd shake the man out put the cat on our clean the Garrett and feed the parrot oh lady would you tell me could you use me do you realize what a good man you're getting in me I'm no l formation or woodman who gets home at three now the gals who see me go soft and dreamy but I'm a gander who won't be landed oh could you use me because I certainly could use you what do you say Molly what do you say sorry mr. Churchill buddy or no cowboy you're soft and how I must use you I cannot use you excuse me now give me a chance no nightlife for you the bull a horse would throw you you silly man ask me can you use me wait a minute and though I'd love you maybe below I think so your ties are freaky stay in the star club though you can use me I certainly can't and so help me Eloise assures I'm writing you this letter in two months Danny had turned the old Churchill place into a dude ranch made me into a cowboy even had me wearing him fancy chaps down near frozen death until I found out you were supposed to wear pants under them then one day just before the grand opening a swell looking dame walked up to me and said well hello there handsome you're the boss no no he's inside I'll take you to him say you don't talk like a westerner where you're from Brooklyn but you like Brooklyn better than Arizona huh things is peppier people don't waste words when they talk like they do here waste words out here they say hi what's cooking in Brooklyn you just walk into her friends apartment say hi you can smell what's cooking in here hey Danny lady to see you what can I do for you miss my name is Frisco Kate I heard you needed a singer for this place and someone to run the gambling room you want the singing job huh and the gambling room that's a new idea never never thought of women who's gamblers why not we marry men don't we yeah I see what you mean hey a lady croupier might be anomaly at that I'll try it for a week and see what the boys think probably the same thing they always think well I can take care of myself okay Kate Mulligan will show you to a room now this way miss I'll take your bag I think I'm gonna like it here don't look at me lady on the answer to a Brooklyn maidens prayer hello Danny oh hello Molly have you heard the news Danny they shot another sheriff you know that's beginning yet monotonous but sit down Molly I want to talk to you what about our future our future mm-hmm all arranged a swell little house in Long Island a kitchen where you can say can you cook never mind how you spoiling things before we get started oh Danny don't you ever take life seriously I wonder what would have happened to you if you'd live when men are in their living but the sweat of their brows well out of soul hand achieves and you're wrong Molly I could be serious about you if you'd let me embrace me I've never felt like this about any girl before Molly will you marry me now you're just being silly no I'm not I mean it please marry me Molly just this once embrace me here the second act of tonight show here's a sound I'm sure you'll reckon on the locomotive whistle one of the friendliest most familiar sounds in all the land the next time you hear that sound soft and low across the distance you might remember that even to blow the whistle costs money not much of course just a fraction of a cent for each two to the whistle but small as the amount is it cost just about twice as much now as it before the war and what's true of even so small a thing is the cost of whistling is true of the cost of almost everything else about running a railroad since 1939 wage rates which railroads pay and prices of things they buy and use have practically doubled that's more than twice as much as the increase in railroad rates the events of the war and of the peace which has followed it have shown us all that the defense of this country and its agriculture commerce and industry demand efficient adequate dependable rail transportation good and adequate transportation depends upon adequate earnings the sort of earnings which come when revenues are in line with costs such earnings will justify and encourage continued investments in improved equipment and facilities which are the foundation of better service at the most economical cost now back to girl crazy starring Doris Day Joan Edwards your host Gordon Macrae and William Bendix looks like this is going to be a long letter Eloise but I got to tell you what that gangster cowboy Langsanders did the day before Danny opened his new dude ranch no no stick around Jake I'll speak up like what's on your mind I hear you're opening up a gambling room that's right tomorrow night what gonna let you get away with it this place he owes will just about ruined my place in Costa will good I suppose you hear the new sheriff were shot yes I did that means you'll be a special election tomorrow I'm the only man running and this place he owes won't have a chance after I'm elected well then I'll get somebody else to run against you why there ain't a man in this county dares run against me it's too unhealthy a job to get think it over sounds like he means business well that's a good idea getting somebody to run against him but I don't know anybody who'd do it would have to be out of their head nincompoop adult hi fellas the very man Mulligan how'd you like to be a policeman oh I get it you want me to be the house detective here well I'm sorry but I ain't built right for a job like that I'm too tall for keyholes and too short for trance me well it ain't that Mulligan how'd you like to be sure for this county sure that might be fun good I'll be your campaign manager we're going to town tomorrow and you can spend the whole day making speeches may I have you run divided up attention please as you all know I am running for sheriff today on a reform ticket and believe me reform is one subject I'm well schooled in crooked politicians have been robbing you fellas long enough it's time you gave me a chance I want you folks to get out and vote exercise your franchise exercise it hope he's seen walking around town with a flabby franchise how we're doing but are you doing great oh here comes like get ready for trouble you're trying to beat me out of the sheriff job we're gonna kill you still want to be sheriff on second thought it don't sound like a steady job have you heard the news elections over let me shake your hand sheriff Mulligan sheriff now get this Mulligan and get it straight I'll give you just 20 minutes to get out of town if you don't the next time I won't be pointing my gun up in the air as my friend Chester a Riley would put it what a revolt and development decision well Eloise a weaker man than me might have left town like like said what did I know sir I hid all day that night I sneaked back for the grand opening of the dude ranch Danny had a big crowd on hand and that frisco cage sure know how to keep an entertain me funny with never he has a party going Mulligan not so loud I'm wondering for murder who you killed nobody like wants to murder me I had to see how Danny's party was going and there was some number you just sung what a voice you got some sustenuto and the timber of your vibrato is a leg row for fissile why Mulligan what talk what's the matter I say something poker how's everything at the table well I'm raking it in as fast as the suckers can shell it out oh good oh excuse me Kate there's Molly just coming in okay boss Mulligan you better get out of sight in case Lang shows up goes someplace where nobody can see you know okay I'll go in the bar everybody in there it's half blind hello Molly glad you came tonight so am I it's been most enlightening mr. Churchill mr. Churchill what's the matter I've just had the pleasure of meeting an old friend of yours from New York mr. Sam Mason Sam Mason yes and he told me some very interesting things about you mr. Churchill mr. Mason informs me that there's a young lady waiting for you in New York who also expects to occupy that little house on Long Island well now Molly that's not true Tess used to be Sam's girl and I dated her a few times that's why he's trying to get even with me don't you believe me Molly no but you must and why must I love the first time in my life I know what it means to be really in love am I not a man whose norm you don't need to be so far more my dear just one way to cheer me come to Danny come to Danny do my sweet let's get married tomorrow I'm sorry but I won't be here tomorrow why where are you going to Mexico Sam's drive me to the races at San Luis you can't go to Mexico with Sam Mason I know his tactics with women well they don't seem to be much worse than yours goodbye mr. Churchill Molly Molly Molly out of my way boss thanks Andrews is after me well go in the closet my office and put on an Indian costume you'll find there like I'll never know you but hurry we're driving to San Luis yeah okay boss thanks have you seen Danny I've taken in over six grand and he'd better put it in the safe yeah well here give it to me I'll be seeing him in a couple of minutes okay thanks let's see which closet did he mean oh here it is right here blanket feathers everything better put it on oh those feathers tickle baby oh no wonder they're supposed to go on my head say I look like a genuine Navajo oh you've seen Sheriff Mulligan how how and how I'll just hide in this closet when everything okay right in the face go get the car started will you what's the matter with you as it clay as it clay I know you found the suit in the closet what about it pale face lanky pale face in the asset play now look I haven't time for any more clowning Kate told me she gave you six grand to give me where is it were you talking English Mulligan back to the Tommy Hawk Mulligan go round again okay boys boys but what happened your Tommy Hawk I scalp them let's get my car and get going hey look there's Molly she's getting ready to leave in San Mesa's car hurry Holly Holly wait you're not going to Mexico with Sam Molly you're going with me that's what you think that's what I know sorry but I promise Sam and I keep my promise Molly Molly I had to go someone who could not be true you will hear folks talking almost as much about high prices as they do about the weather and when it comes to having to pay higher prices railroads are just like other folks I'll take for one example the one item of cross ties to a railroad cross ties are as essential as bread is to your family more than 40 million of them have to be put into the tracks every year before the war a cross tie and the track cost about $2 now it costs around $4 just about twice as much and that's typical of what has happened to the prices railroads must pay all along the line increased in prices whether they're the prices of the things you buy for your family or the prices of the things railroads need did not start with higher railroad rates when the war ended railroad freight rates were no higher than when it began and in many cases they were lower prices had already gone up more than 50% before the first post war increase was made in railroad freight rates and the total increase in railroad rates since 1939 has been only one third as much as the average increase in the prices of all the things you buy no railroad freight rates have not led the way to higher prices instead they have lagged behind way behind our nation needs railroads which are strong and healthy that's the only kind of railroads which can produce adequate transportation at the lowest possible cost in time of peace and which can meet national needs in time of war and the only way to have railroads which are strong and healthy is to have railroads whose revenues keep pace with increased costs the railroad our show train will return in just a moment after a brief pause for station identification girl crazy starring Doris Day Joan Edwards your host Gordon Macrae and William Bending Eloise I'll finish this letter up in a couple of more pages but I got to tell you about that trip we took to Mexico when Danny and I arrived at the hotel in San Luis Frisco Kate met me in the lobby well Mulligan I see you got here all right yeah Kate but the way Danny drove it's a miracle all the way down here my entire life kept flashing before me were you scared I was having too much fun looking at the pictures well Molly had me go with her and Sam to chaperone and what a ride that was Sam kept hugging the curves all the way only they were Molly's the poor kids disgusted already wish she hadn't come what about you I think I'm gonna have a wonderful time just think Mulligan we're alone together you and I well don't try nothing I know how to protect myself don't be like that say something nice to me all I got to say to you is a still away go adios of wheat is ain't and a slight touch of all reverie but all that means goodbye blunt ain't I look Mulligan wouldn't you like to settle down with someone who'd be your constant companion never leave your side worship you oh I got a dog that does all that but could you dog cook breakfast for you no but would you bark if there was a burglar in the house look Kate you don't want me that there's insanity in my family why I even got an uncle that thinks he's a racehorse well just thinking he's a racehorse isn't so bad maybe not to you but the family always bets on him to win and he keeps coming in second I'll leave me alone go on scrambly what a man treat me as rough as you like Mulligan I love it treat me raw she's in the coffee shop Danny trying to quiet her nerves shall I tell her you want to see it no no she evidently doesn't want to see me in if that's the way she wants things it's okay well you're the boss boss but if you ask me that's not the way she wants things see you later that's the way to treat women boys beats up look at me I got Frisco Kate biting the hand that's feeding her forget it Mulligan by the way you'd better give me that $6,000 I have the clerk put it in the hotel safe okay boys here you are oh here's Molly oh hello Danny I guess you're pretty angry with me aren't you no I'm not angry but your boyfriend Sam will be if you leave him flat Mulligan I'm going to get our bags out of the car the whole trouble is Molly I took too much for granted oh Mulligan Mulligan what can I do now that I found out but I'm really in love with Danny it's too late how well well crying ain't gonna help he won't like any better with a red nose come on can't you smile a little there's nothing to smile about Mulligan but not for me a lucky star but not for me with love too early I found more skies they say the West is well but not for me it's great for digger old Dell but not for me I'm gonna make my will cause back in Cuscoville those guys are out to kill a sap like me it's such a healthy spot but not for me this job is much too hot and not for me sheriff wears a vest of lilies on his chest and boy that's not for me he's not in hot knees car apology Mike is here oh I'm gonna dig a hole in disguise myself as a gopher Molly Molly come quickly everybody Danny's lying out by the cars someone's attacked him Danny right then Eloise I realized what a dumb bunny I am it was Danny in his sixth grand that like it followed not me fine sure if I turned out to be I was too ashamed to face him so I slipped out headed for the edge of town and hopped a freight train I was all set to ride out of town when the train bumped and knocked my head against the side of the car then I realized the train wasn't going nowhere it was just hooking on cars I was about to scream when the car door slid open and in cold the last person I wanted he caught in a box car with blank Sanders I tried to be very quiet just then the train bumped again I said who's there move I can't see a thing in the dark move any closer than I'll let you have it is that you well it ain't William Bendix you don't do it like think of my poor old wirehead white haired mother stop kissing my hand blank blank are you hurt well what do you know he's out core it's a good thing he bumped his head against the side of the car might have had to get a little tough with him quiet down I'll be hoarse for a week oh Mulligan I'm so proud of you yeah me too Kate and for capturing Lank and getting back Danny sixth grand I'm gonna let you marry me what an honor I should have known that you'd taken after length to recover my money for me Mulligan I shouldn't have doubted you I guess I I just couldn't think straight don't worry darling from now on you're gonna have a wife to do your thinking for you Molly you got it easy Molly why I've got a bark if there's a burglar in the house Kate so Eloise I'm afraid you lost your boyfriend to Kate very truly yours Skeeter Mulligan Ladies and gentlemen this is Gordon McRae giving a special vote of thanks to our guest stars William Bendick Scarice Day and Joan Edwards and to Alan Reed and Jess Kirkpatrick for their fine performances in our production of Girl Crazy by Guy Bolton and Jack McGowan with lyrics by Ira Gershwin music by George Gershwin and adapted for radio by Mr. Bill Demling next week the show train will arrive in the same tracks at the same time and on board will be Ms. Dinah Shore and Mr. Leon Arrow to join me in bringing you Jerome Kern's Sally well it looks as though we're ready to pull out and so on to next week good night has been presented by special arrangement with the Tams Whitmark music library Gordon McRae appeared on this program by arrangement with Warner Brothers William Bendicks will soon be seen in the Paramount picture the Connecticut Yankee and King Arthur's Court your stay appeared for the courtesy of Michael Curtiz production this is Marvin Miller speaking the railroad hour is brought to you each week at this time by 132 railroads of the United States each one of them has its own operations and services each one competes keenly with others for business but all of them work together through the association of American Railroads for the improvement of all railroading and for better service to you