 transcribe ladies and gentlemen the railroad out tonight the Association of American Railroads presents the delightful Romberg Fields musical hit up in Central Park starring Gordon Macray and his celebrated guest Mimi Benzel our choir is under the direction of Norman Lube off and the music is prepared and conducted by Carmen Dragon yes tonight another memorable 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 tonight the American Railroads salute the girls scouts a growing force for freedom the girls scouts of the USA are 41 years old this week close to 2 million American girls and their leaders are now part of this important program building good citizens and molding happy useful people happy birthday girl scouts everywhere and now here is our star Gordon Macray good evening ladies and gentlemen tonight we're going back to New York 1870 and they were just digging plant in Central Park it's the big backyard of the city where's that daughter of mine with me lunch basket Rosie oh coming Peter Peter now I've had just about enough of your elegant manners you ain't a Vanderbilt Rosie you're just a plain moor yes Papa now for me lunch what in the devil is this the size of a silver dollar it's a sandwich Papa just the way the ladies and gentlemen eat them at Delmonico what's inside of this watercress watercress me I eat his grass I used to me lady asked her I've had just about enough of your dreams of social climate now I'll have to go over and get myself some corned beef and cabbage so that I can continue me work on Central Park oh dear what am I going to do with Papa here's me oh hello I'm looking for Mr. Timothy Moore oh well Mr. Moore is engaged right now at luncheonette but can I help you I'm his daughter Rosie well I'm very pleased to meet you miss Moore my name is John Matthews I'm a newspaper man and I want to get a story about your father how the work is progressing on the part a newspaper man oh if you put Papa's picture in the paper it would certainly help my career oh have you a career well I'm trying to get one and when I do I'll let you write about it in your newspaper Rosie Moore daughter of the famous park builder Timothy Moore will do her repertory of songs at the concert in Central Park tonight I can just see you on the platform is Rosie looking very beautiful with your father's park all around you oh dear I think I'm I'm going to be a little nervous with all your experience oh no sing Rosie Central Park is finished is going to be a carousel right about here and a band stand where you can stand up and sing just the way you did maybe someday I'll be a prima donna well someday when I get fat enough oh you don't have to get fat you just have to study now there's a fine conservatory in Boston would they teach me to sing to sing like Jenny Lynn oh better than Jenny Lynn you'd be so beautiful every man in New York can fall in love with you you too oh I'd be the first but Boston so far away well I'd come up and visit you and you could come home at Christmas time would you meet me here in the park oh it'll be our special meeting place oh it's a lovely dream but I don't think I can afford it well I can't afford my dreams I wouldn't do without them it doesn't cost you anything you buy the world for a wealthy and you're attracting unless you have in some there's no I've got to try that you mean you just close your eyes and you wish mm-hmm for anything in the whole world you want it doesn't cost you sleep your lips have man dearest Rosie tell me how's Boston did you sing well well I said John but the man said he just couldn't make me into Jenny Lynn Rosie I love you I love you too John would you marry me Rosie sometime but I've got big dreams now I want to capsize the stars well do anything you like but just stay close to me my sweet I have something to tell you what is it Rosie I'm not going back to Boston I have a job Mr. Peters he's very rich he wants me to sing at the new Central Park Garden Rosie you can't I don't think you're ready you can't hold me back John why Mr. Peters said in Boston that he get me new gowns and jewels and you accepted my of course what girl wouldn't what's the matter nothing nothing Rosie my book somebody just ripped the pages of enters the opening attraction of the Central Park Garden the singing debut of the lovely Rosie Moore enough you made a fool out of me Rosie don't make a fool out of yourself I don't know what you're talking about Mr. Matthews but since my song has been interrupted I think it's a good time to make an announcement my sponsor and benefactor Mr. Peters has asked me to marry him and act to have up in Central Park next time your wife comes home from shopping take a good look at her shopping bag you may see the makings for a variety of delicious meals or maybe an assortment of things for the house or clothes for the children but one thing you won't see is what makes possible everything in that shopping bag transportation and lots of it but the fact is your ability to buy most everything you need from your local merchants would not be possible without your old friend the railroad freight car you see it takes a mighty job of high volume low-cost transportation to bring together the widely scattered products of forest farm mine and mill that together make up the scores of items you bring home from market each week and that's a job for America's railroads in fact more than 600 trains will start on their journeys somewhere in the United States during the 30 minutes we're on the air tonight while another 600 will complete their runs and pull into their terminals and during this half hour and every half hour America's freight trains will do a job equal to hauling more than a million tons of freight a mile every minute thanks to this big job of transportation you and all of us are able to enjoy not only the necessities but so many of the luxuries that flow from America's unparalleled mass production system for only the railroads with the tremendous capacity and high efficiency made possible by trains of cars on tracks of steel can provide the kind of dependable low-cost mass transportation needed by our mass production system that's why it is that in a very real sense America can be said to live out of the familiar railroad freight car is act two of the Lawrence and Lee version of up in Central Park starring Gordon Macrae as John Matthews and Mimi Benzel as Rosie Moore is me boy Central Park all done a big backyard for the biggest city in the USA yeah it's wonderful but I tell you this now it's no park to go walking in alone every fella's got to have a girl and every girl's got to have a fella you can say that again you miss her don't you Rosie well this is the place we met this part what happens to you when you see her that's the real test what happens why she walks into a room where the whole place comes to life turn sideways and upside down what happens the air seems fresh the lights glow bright the walls are charged with dynamite the statues not the curtains wave the big stuff help becomes her slave the silent clock begins to look up and smile so young and sweet my heart starts kneeling at my world begins to soar and when she walks in the room looks down so sweet and cool while I stand on me boy there's no room in Central Park for her to walk into but if you look down that gravel wall mr. War I'll bet you'll raise the whole thing well I'm not saying I did and I'm not saying I didn't right now I'm arranging to disappear well I declare I do believe it's John John Matthew hello Rosie you're looking very beautiful thank you did you know I'm all the rage in New York oh yes yes I know admirers waiting at the stage door you're dressing full of flowers you must be a very happy young lady oh I am well it's all that matters I suppose you're still gonna marry mr. Peters yes the date's all set but let's not talk about that let's talk about us I thought about you many times have I wondered what you've been doing whether you've made any new acquaintances or friends oh no no I haven't made any new friends I stay very much the same my feelings don't change it's a shining gift a bit of touch and go a moment the charm then it's quick like an a shouldn't have seen you again goodbye John state line New York signed article John Matthews reporter evidence was uncovered today by this correspondent that Arthur Peters operator of the Central Park Gardens has embezzled funds in the amount of a hundred thousand dollars from the city treasury to Peters is a fiance to the young singing star Rosie Moore strike out that last week Mr. Moore where is she wears rose on away John it's my fault I hadn't published that article glad you had your job to do when you're done it but where could she have gone I've looked everywhere have you now have you tried Boston Boston that she was going back to some sort of conservatory place once another try it being another Jenny Lynn I'm gonna grab the first train there's no need to schools all finished she's coming home today and you know I've got a sort of a hunch you'll be able to find her right there in the backyard what backyard my backyard your backyard New York's backyard hello John look it's just the way you said it would be there's a carousel a beautiful carousel Rosie welcome home how come here will you will you belong where's that John close how close let me show you just a moment and meanwhile our thanks to Arthur Q. Brian who played Timothy Moore and our entire company up in Central Park with book in the weeks by Herbert and Dorothy Fields and music by Sigmund Romberg was dramatized for the railroad hour by Lawrence and Lee the railroad hour is brought to you each week at this time by the American railroads Marvin this year the Red Cross must expand its services to meet a greatly increased number of calls for help and these calls can be answered only if every American realizes that he is the Red Cross and that his neighbors next door in the next town and across the nation depend on his contribution to help meet emergencies when you help the Red Cross you are assisting our men and women in uniform you are contributing to the growth of the vital Red Cross blood program you are aiding the victims of disaster and helping restore them to normal living to meet increased needs in all these areas the Red Cross depends on each of us to answer the call of the 1953 Red Cross fund drive thank you Marvin and now folks here again as our charming guest Mimi Benzel in the park with you Gordon well we loved it too Mimi what's on the show train next Monday you listen sounds like Eileen you're so right Mimi it's a great day for the Irish and it's one of my favorite shows Lucy'll normal be here for our special St. Patrick's Day program Victor Herbert's Eileen well we'll all be listening and good night good night Mimi you are wonderful all aboard well dear friends it looks as though we're ready to pull out and so on till next Monday night and Eileen this is Gordon Macrae saying tonight scene starring in the Technicolor production the desert song our music was prepared and conducted by Carmen Dragon and our choir was under the direction of Norman Luvall this is Marvin Miller saying good night for the American Railroad now stay tuned for your Monday night of music on MBC