 Ladies and gentlemen the railroad hour and here comes our star-studded show train Night the association of American railroads present transcribe Lawrence and Lee's musical play star lights Starring Gordon McRae and his celebrated guest Dorothy Warren shows Acquire is under the direction of Norman Luboff and our music is prepared and conducted by Carmen dragon Yes tonight another delightful musical is brought to you by the American Railroad The same railroads that bring you the food you eat the clothes you wear the fuel you burn and the multitude of other things You use in your daily life And now here is our star Gordon McRae Thank you. Thank you Marvin Miller and good evening ladies and gentlemen Well tonight Dorothy Warren shoulder and I are bringing you a memory of the days of good old vaudeville Dorothy is Helen Harris, and I'm a singing hooker named Harry McKay and here is Starlight Yes, Miss Harris No big people only Now for the trick turn Think we better stop this Harris I'm a little stiff from dancing. I don't care where we finally played the palace. Oh, brother. We're in the big time. Yes, Harry Yes, Harry. What's the matter with you, baby? What are you so coming by? But more could a couple of hookers ask for nothing Harry. It's all I ever wanted Say Put your right arm out a little more as we make the trick turn with your honey. That always gets Like you grab my arm, baby. Here we go Side step back on ready I guess so Harry Hearts jumping up and down Would you say if I should run away away from you? No, I won't Little H O U Maybe the axe never been better than it was tonight. Oh, you're a great showman Harry. Oh, no, no, no We're a great team Helen Hey, you started to tell me something during the act. What was it Harry? Oh Harry, I don't know how to say it. Oh, come on. Come on kid talking about what's bothering you Harry, I want to quit the act quit Quit right when we're hitting the top. Well, can you think of a better time? But why baby? Why you gotta have a reason? I want to get married Married, huh? I didn't even know you were in love with anybody. I have been for a long time Who's the lucky guy? Somebody been hanging around the stage door sending your flowers and candy and all that stuff, huh? No Now this this character never sent me a thing, but I'm in love with him I have been for years and years and I have a feeling I will be for the rest of my life Well, who is he? Oh you you silly baboon Me oh Honey, why don't you say something before gosh? It's a fella's place to do the asking but you were always so busy figuring how we'd get out of playing Burgundy, Pennsylvania and Mount City, South Dakota, but you never thought of me Why it's perfect. We'll never have to break up the team Wait a minute. Well, we call ourselves the McKays That's no good. They never know who gets the top billing Harry When we get married, I want to give up show business Settle down and make a home for us. We won't have to live out of theater trunks and paper suitcases. Wait a minute Oh, honey, what about the act? Oh, you'll be great as a single Harry And you always had a hankering to go on and knock them dead all by yourself Well, I'm not saying I couldn't do it. Sure you can Harry McKay Gee-gee honey, it's great of you to meet me at the station Quarter three in the morning. I wouldn't miss it. How's it going? Not bad. Harrisburg was a little slow. I I caught the first train after I got off and next week Arthur booked me right back here. I need a palace. Oh, that's wonderful. Well, no, no, it's it's newer But it's right across the river Harry. Something's wrong. There's 20 people in a house tonight Oh, it's not you Harry. The whole vaudeville business is kind of shaky. Well Don't you worry about you know where I want to go Harry over to Broadway. I just want to walk walk What if it's time of the morning? Sure grab my arm partner just like in the act Broadway look at it. Yeah, come here Well, what are you taking me to my favorite spot in New York place? I used to come to whenever I had the blues blues I never knew you were ever sad Helen all the time. Mr. Till I married you right turn Well, what do you know Schubert alley? You know this is an old saying that a Broadway has a heart Colleges is somewhere under this pavement Look at all the posters honey. All the three sheets. Oh These these are the greats. I don't know why Harry Late at night early in the morning these posters almost seem to come alive Look Warren Siegfeld presents Miss Marilyn Miller and Sonny by Jerome Kerr and Otto Harback and Oscar Hammerstein the second with Jack Donahue Cliff Edwards fifth and web Golly Here's the poster for the Wintergarden show So that makes you feel like getting down on one knee doesn't honey harm and jolly I love you, how I love you The folks up north I guess if I had my choice of being anybody else in the world it'd be fate Templeton You know, you'd have a pretty tough choice choosing between her and her the follies present Here Helen here's who I'd be mr. Show business himself Oh George M. Cohen, what a guy tell all the gang Why you brought me here to give me a shot me on But you don't have to tell me show business ain't never gonna die Operator operator. Are you ready with my long-distance call in New York? It's it's me Harry Percocy, Pennsylvania After booked me here. Oh, Harry. Oh, no, no, it ain't bad, honey. I'm just breaking in the new act Oh, Harry, where are you booked after that? Well, Halyria, Ohio next week Waterloo, Indiana then Mount City, South Dakota. Oh, honey, listen to me Everybody's talking about what a big thing radio's gonna be. Huh? You know, Harry one airless, you know with with earphones You're kidding Helen. It's a fad baby a play thing. Well, the whole thing will blow over in three months Oh, you'd be great on it Harry. They're looking for talent Helen, honey You remember the old saying one picture is worth a thousand words Well on that that wireless thing of magic. They'd only be getting one thousand to me Why nobody'd seem a famous trick term, but you got to keep up with the time No, no, no, honey radio never last boy. Everybody says it's bad for the ears Helen what I really call up about was to tell you that I love you even in Percocy, Pennsylvania I Gotta say goodbye now, honey Goodbye, Harry. Bye. Happy Percocy Happy Elyria Happy Mount City, South Dakota What am I gonna do wrote that number down some place? Yeah, here it is Hello operator give me circle seven two hundred may I speak to the man in charge of new talent, please So who the program director? Yeah, I guess he'll do This is Helen. I I mean this is this is miss root Jaleel the um Well, well, you can call me the sunshine girl Right now in a vast city of tents sprawling over 3,000 acres of the Irvine Ranch in Santa Ana, California Some 50,000 Boy Scouts are having the time of their young lives To keep them well and properly fed all in all more than 1,300 coach and sleeping kitchen and dining cars were assembled for the run into Santa Anna a trip that comes during the period of peak Vacation travel at a time when railroad passenger facilities are most in demand What's more the railroads adjusted their schedules to give the Scouts a maximum of sightseeing along the way and to provide for different Roots going and returning and all this is provided at a very considerable Reduction in rates so that as many Scouts as possible could get in on the fun For their part the railroads the only form of transportation with the equipment manpower and know-how to handle a transportation job of this Magnitude are delighted to be able to play a helpful role in the success of the jamboree Like the scouting movement itself the railroads in their own way are working Continually to help build a better stronger America Now here is act 2 of the Lawrence and Lee play with music starlight starring Gordon Macrae as Harry McKay and Dorothy Warren Scholl as Helen Dear Helen just a line to let you know that I'm killing them in Kalamazoo all my love Harry And even then we never got you Dear Helen business is barf and beaut Montana Ready to go on for your number mr. McKay Yeah, yeah, how's the house Mac one old lady with an ear trumpet a bum faster sleep and snoring and 12 large spiders Well, you can't always play to pack houses Stand aside buster. I'm gonna give that old lady a good time wake up the bum and give those spiders the show of their life Everybody loves a baby. That's why I'm in love with you Pretty baby And I'd like to be your sister brother dad and mother pretty baby. Yes, pretty baby Won't you come and let me rock you in my cradle of love and we'll cuddle all the time Oh, I want love and baby and it might as well be you Pretty baby Lady like me Hey Mac, did you see your face light up when I did the trick turn huh? In Sadea, Missouri You gotta say is polar niggas gonna have a tough back to follow But it loves me or gee I wish I knew Who can't see me redressing room keys. No, no, we're gonna use what's got their pop gramophone Awful looking funny horn for a gramophone. No, mr. McKay. This here's one of them new fangal radios. Oh What happened to the cats whisker in the earphones? Oh, they got this here perfected Super header dine something like that works off an A and B batteries On clear nights, I can get as far as KDK Pittsburgh and KFI in Los Angeles Guess what this here is right now. I can't imagine New York City Never thought I'd live to see the day. Ain't even got a wire hookup. No place And now the sunshine girl I Thought this gadget didn't give out anything but weather reports and setting up like this time Oh, they're beginning to send out pretty things like this here Ruth Belial Oh, that's beautiful you demonstrate radio sets here. Yes, sir Here's the latest model works off the storage battery mind you and it picks up connectivity as clear as my wife talking to me Well, I happen to notice it's just time for a certain program coming from New York I bet you can't pick up WEF in that set and so in clear as crystal This sets her keep to listen I love him in the morning and I love him at night I love him. Yes, I love him when the stars are shining bright I love him. I guess I was a little late Don't you want to buy the set in this year? No, no, but for the first time my life. I'm gonna write somebody a fan letter Here's your fan mail for today. Mr. Leal big stack again. Oh, that's wonderful. My goodness There's a letter from Florida and one from Maine and and one from oh golly One with a familiar handwriting My dear mr. Leal Once in a lifetime a man hears a voice like yours keep singing sincerely Harry McKay, oh my goodness My dear mr. McKay It is strange that you should write to me for I have long been a fan of yours When you were playing the palace with that strikingly beautiful part of yours, I never missed a single performance When you get back to New York, why don't you drop in at the station to see me? A man of your talents belongs in this exciting new medium Excuse the typing warmest regards Ruth the little what do you know? Dear mr. Leal, I am coming to New York in a few days and I appreciate your offer But I must tell you an old frankness that I am not a headliner anymore. I'm I'm strictly playing the sticks Harry, mr. McKay. Yeah, mr. Leal will see you now. She has a couple of minutes before she goes on the air Oh, thank you. Thank you very much in here studio way Uh, mr. Little I Helen Harry you're not mad at me Man. Oh, no, honey. I had to do something. Oh, Harry. I Should have known that voice couldn't belong to just anybody. You know what radio needs Harry a team a husband and wife Well, because Harry well most of the married people listening are husbands and wives Oh, honey is crazy as you always were and I always knew you had big time But we got to do it together Harry I'm a sight act You know people got to see me take that turn, you know that trick turn Oh, Harry keep doing it on radio every time you do a number that calls for it. Why maybe someday They'll be seeing us too. We got to be ready. You're on the air in 10 seconds, mr. Leal Come here Harry sit alongside me on the piano bench. Well, if you say so, honey Good evening radio fans. This is Ruth Deleel or it it was Ruth Deleel because tonight I'm going to tell you my real name It's Helen Harris. Mrs. Harry McKay and from now on you'll be hearing the team of McKay and Harris Here we go. Mr. McKay. I'm right along Saturday of miss Harris To Benny Rubin Tyler McVay and our entire company the railroad hours brought to you each week at the same time by the American railroads Marvin here's an idea that allows you to combine all the advantages of railroad and automobile travel whether for your vacation or for business For through the rail auto service plan you can enjoy the speed comfort and dependability of train travel for long distances Then at your destination you can step off your train into an automobile for local sightseeing or business calls Yes through the rail auto travel plan available in some 400 towns and cities You can arrange at the time you buy your train ticket to have a car reserved at your destination Adding extra convenience and comfort to your trip. Thank you Marvin Well Dorothy you made a wonderful vando partner. What's on the show train next week Gordon? Oh That sounds like a love story Oh, you're so right one of the richest adventures of all time Dorothy The colorful romance of max million and come on and it's called the golden empress Well, I'll just bring my tiara and see you next week Gordon. Good night. Good night Dorothy. You were real big time tonight Oh Folks it looks as if we're ready to pull out and so until next Monday night and the world premiere of the golden Empress on behalf of the other members of the cast and of the American railroads Your friend Gordon Macrae saying goodbye Our was transcribed in Hollywood Gordon Macrae can be seen in Warner Brothers the desert song in Technicolor 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 Railroad now stay tuned for your Monday night of music on NBC Tonight the voice of Firestone features Wilma Spence on NBC