 Ladies and gentlemen the railroad hour and here comes our star-studded show train Tonight the Association of American Railroads presents the memorable Victor Herbert operetta babes in Toiland Starring Gordon Macrae and his celebrated guest star Lucille Norman our program tonight is dedicated to thousands of young musicians All over the country who are studying tonight's operetta and its composer through the pages of keyboard junior a magazine for young Musicians the current issue also features a story about the railroad hour its stars cast and producers Our choir as usual is out of the direction of Norman Lubeau and our music is prepared and conducted by Carmen dragon Yes tonight another great musical success 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 Macrae Thank You mom and Miller and good evening ladies and gentlemen, but what do you know? It's the 1st of December the beginning of the holiday month So we're going back to the storybook days for the days of remember when Days of once upon a time When you've grown up my tears and are as old as I You'll often ponder on the years That rose so sweetly And Say we like to have you meet some of the celebrated citizens of toyland though They're really probably old friends of yours fellow citizens Forward huh may we present miss hood first name red writing lovely child very devoted to her grandmother That's our friend Peter over there that boy has a mad passion for pumpkin pie and Say there's simple Simon and miss Muffin who doesn't care a bit for spiders Tom Tom the Piper's son and little boy blue boy farmer Say grab your trouble mr. Blue and let's all over my Why it's little Bo Peep what seems to be the trouble bowl Now you haven't gone and lost those sheep again Don't cry To find your sheep will try We'll seek them fire. We'll seek them. Why? We'll see them low and high Cry Bo Peep don't cry To find your sheep will try We'll seek them fire. We'll see them That's really no use worrying Never mind Bo Peep we will find so be gay Go astray your sheep soon home again. You'll see Give a smile Bo Peep for a while your sheep may cruise in pastures new Never mind dear dear fellow citizens of Toyland How are you Mary? I'm quite well. Thank you considering. I'm so contrary dear Mary. Have you had any word from Alan and Jane? No Tom Tom their wicked Uncle Barnaby says they've both been lost at sea And if it's true, then I'll never see my beloved Alan again Golly, Mary it looks as if you'll have to spend the rest of your life teaching arithmetic And everybody knows what a dreadful thing arithmetic is. It's so everlastingly dull Two and two just always seem to equal four, but I'll give it some variety We should wait about the mates were almost six feet high and the bullshit you subtracts goes on one long arithmetic problem this guy's Uncle Barnaby tried to have us killed at sea remember and he won't hesitate to have us killed here Do you think you recognize me disguised as a gypsy fortune teller? I don't recognize you Alan. You're my own brother Oh, look a gypsy fortune teller perhaps he can tell me about my own true love Fortune teller. Yes, my pretty. What is your name? Floreto Floreto who flirts with the future. Will you tell me my fortune? Give me your hand That's a pretty hand so salt. Ah, yes, I can read the entire future Oh, I am a Romney right a Tivorous right of the wild I dabble in magic both comic and tragic Which I have been from my time the blizzard. I'm likewise a voodoo at casting a hoodoo a Qualified artist the gypsy am I The past or the future to tell you I'd be glad to pay you in advance in your floreto How much will you charge me a kiss? Now tell me what do you read in my palm your name begins with an M? That's right. It's not Methuselah or Muhiribu or Marmaduke or mini ha ha. I have it It's Mary. You're wonderful. I always thought so Now now, let me see You marry should marry a chap whose name begins with an A Alan. Ah, yes, Alan. He's charming gifted and attractive To know him is to love him But he's dead and will never come back to me. What's happening here? I will not have gypsies wandering around giving Toyland a bad name shoe shoe. Oh, you better be careful where you put your shoe Besides I have an important announcement to make I have decided to marry the lovely though sometimes contrary Mary Oh, no But Barnaby aren't you a little well old for me? Certainly not besides Barnaby I'm well, I'm in love with somebody else with Alan, but he's been lost at sea He's asleep with the oysters makes me feel like I'm swimming in tartar sauce. I Have positive proof that he will never return. No, I'm in love with somebody new with Barney O'Flynn Mary who is Barney O'Flynn? Oh Tom Tom? I can't marry that old ogre Barnaby. So I just made him up He's a lad from Coutic Love Wild one comes from there and be sure it is in his car You'll see he cast a spell for me to win us from that Should he speak to her as he has for me since She's forgotten all about me. Oh, no, Alan. It's not true. But you heard her She's fallen in love with some County Claire Casanova named O'Flynn. What are we going to do Alan? You must leave here dear sister never return I have nothing more to keep me here. Mary is in love with somebody else Uncle Barnaby might try to kill us. He found us here, Jane I'll I'll go with you. Goodbye, Toyland Goodbye forever Turn in a moment with act two of babes in Toyland We have as our guest tonight the distinguished administrator of the Defense Transport Administration and member of the Interstate Commerce Commission Mr. James J. Knudsen and now mr. Knudsen the effectiveness of the nation's mobilization effort and Its ability to meet any future emergency depend on our great productive capacity and our unparalleled transportation system To achieve a well-balanced national strength the nation must build up its armed forces It must build up its productive machine and it must build up its transportation lifelines Because the railroads serve every part of the nation Carrying everything movable for anybody Interconnecting every region into an immense productive unit They are the primary carrier in our transportation network both in time of peace and in national emergency As was demonstrated during World War two the railroads were capable not only of carrying 90 percent of our build military freight But also of moving 70 percent of our intercity commerce Now with our current national emergency threatening to become even more serious The fact that these essential carriers the railroads have been busy at work Expanding and improving every part of their plant is important to all of us Since the end of World War two the railroads have spent an average of more than a billion dollars a year on improvements Since the outbreak of fighting in Korea the railroads have installed thousands of new freight cars In line with their pledge to increase the supply of these vital cars to a fleet of one million eight hundred and fifty thousand This pledge has just been reaffirmed by the nation's railroads They are making every effort to obtain the allocation of enough steel to build at least ten thousand new cars monthly As soon as it is possible to reach such a production rate The defense transport administration commends the railroads for their forthright action to increase their Transportation capacity to meet the nation's needs and will continue its active effort to help obtain the materials required Now here is act two of the Lawrence and Lee version of Victor Herbert's musical fairy tale babes in Toyland Starring Gordon Macrae as Alan and Lucille Norman as Contrary Mary When Jane and I left Toyland never more to return We went to a distant land We found work in a spot that was the closest thing to the real toyland. We loved so much the shop of the master toy maker We tried to forget our troubles in the busy preparation for Christmas All right now hurry hurry hurry every toy must be ready in time for Christmas see that all the music boxes play on key Good good now see that every mama doll says mama Good good after all we wouldn't want a mama doll to say Papa Yes, well, I guess just about everything is ready for Christmas. Yes, sir And we're all beginning to sing the wonderful Christmas songs of praise The spirit that Christmas spirit to be exact. Oh, oh, I almost forgot to mention We have a new sales lady a recent arrival in these parts her name is Mary Mary Q. Contrary Jane did you hear that? What do you suppose she's doing here? Miss Tydon till we find out that you get in that packing box and I'll I'll just stand here and pretend to be a wooden soldier Here comes our new sales lady now Welcome miss Contrary. Thank you master toy maker now You would have been in charge of all the dolls have a look around at the stock. You'll find quite a variety of them Oh, thank you. Oh How beautiful they all are dolls of all nations side by side on the same shelf What a beautiful world that makes Hello, little Norwegian doll Hello, little Dutch doll with the pigtails and the wooden shoes and this one a British doll Do you say mama dolly? Oh, yes, and here's a French doll. Do you say mama too little one? If Alan were not lost to me we might have had such beautiful dolls of our own and each night I would have sung lullabies to them a wooden soldier He looks just like Alan, but he certainly needs a paint job Paint job and he ought to have some metals on his chest. I'll just sew some on him. Oh, no No, I forgot he's a wooden soldier. Well, I'll just nail them on to him. Oh Dear I wish you weren't wooden I wish you were Alan so I could tell you how much I love you how I ran off in that wicked Barnaby and how I had to make up a sweetheart named a flint to stay out of the old man's clutches You made him up. He talks Mary it's me Alan Is it really I'll never leave you again Wait, you're sure there's nobody named old Flynn you love never No, my sweetheart, there's one test of true love Toys Everybody knows that a toy is only worth something when there's a child to love it The wise it might just as well be wood and cloth and buttons That's why toys always know when there's love around especially at Christmas time. What happens Alan You just close your eyes and if they feel that love is in the air They start to march my eyes are closed. I'm listening and loving Oh They're starting to mark The wooden soldiers the beautiful house the jacks in the box why they're all falling in line This is going to be a wonderful Christmas will you make it a merry Christmas and marry me married? Oh, yes You're Alan, but only back in Troy land Our lovely guest Lucille Norman will be back in just one moment Meanwhile our thanks to Sam Edwards Janet Stewart Polly Bear Lou Marrow and to all the members of our company babes in toiland with book and lyrics by Glenn McDonough and music by Victor Herbert was dramatized for the railroad hour by Lawrence and Lee The railroad hour is brought to you each week at the same time by the American railroads Marvin have you made out your Christmas card list yet? It won't be long now until we're right in the middle of the holiday season and that busy team of Santa Claus's helpers your mailman the post office America's railroads and the railway express agency will be working feverishly to handle the mountains of Christmas packages Won't you help these hard-working folks and mail or express your packages and Christmas cards early? And when you do please use Christmas seals as much as possible By doing so you help bring the priceless gift of health to fellow Americans suffering from tuberculosis Thank You Marvin, and now ladies and gentlemen here again as our charming contrary Mary Lucille Norman Thank You Gordon that was great fun made me feel like going out and buying up a whole new toy shop Well, let's do it Lucy. What's on the show train next week Gordon? Well, we're gonna have some thrilling Johann Strauss music The gypsy Baron and Mimi Benzel will be our guest and we'll be waltzing. Well, we'll be waltzing all over the place Well, I'll set my dial at three-quarter time. Good night, Gordon. Good night. Lucy. You're wonderful. Oh The board my dear friends it looks as though we're ready to pull out and so until next Monday night and the gypsy Baron This is your friend Gordon McRae saying goodbye Babes in Toyland was presented by special arrangement with the Tams Whitmark music library Gordon McRae appeared through the courtesy of Warner Brothers producers of the miracle of Fatima Our choir was out of the direction of Norman Lube off and our music was prepared and conducted by Carmen dragon Until next week. This is Marvin Miller saying good night for the American Railroads Now stay tuned for your Monday night of music on NBC Tonight the voice of Firestone features Thomas L. Thomas on NBC