 The Railroad Out, and here comes the Summer Show Train! The Association of 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, brings you the Railroad Summer Show Train, starring Gordon McRae, and featuring Lucille Norman with the music of Common Dragon in the orchestra, gripped by Gene Holloway, and the choir on the direction of Norman LeBlanc. And now here is our star, Gordon McRae! Hello, Marvin Miller, and good evening, ladies and gentlemen. Well, tonight we're going to ride the Summer Show Train back through time and memory through the year that you lived yesterday, the ninth destination, 1925. 1925, America. Al Smith was Governor of New York, the Prince of Wales was 31, and the most knowledgeable bachelor in the world. Jack Dempsey got married, and Babe Ruth got hurt, and Mary Pickford almost got kidnapped. Charles Statham was working on his great movie, The Gold Brunt, and Hell's Lloyd was the delight of the nation. And on Broadway on September 21st, Dennis King appeared as fast-far beyond and made theatrical history seeing the magnificent Brutal Semmel score of the Vagabond King. Oh, boy, you breakers of piracy, you're a lousy rabble of law degree. You're a rabble of law degree. Save our city from burgundy. Our city from burgundy. 1925, on the beach at Sandy Hook, you and the people around you are staring across the water. 21 miles across that water is the New York district known as the Bathory. Over seven hours ago, the 17-year-old girl plunged into the water below the battery and started swimming toward a sandy hook. Here's me, come! Slowly, steadily, the girl swims towards the shore. The usual boat moves watchfully beside it. Now the sand is solid beneath her feet. Now she stands and splashes out of the water towards the excited spectator. What was your time? Seven hours, 11 minutes, and 30 seconds. Then she's broken the record. Must be a later mic. I've got to make my deadline. Gertrude Edery's going to be on the front page of the afternoon edition. Front page! In 1925, Gertrude Ederly swam from the battery to the front pages of the world. And in 1925, the most perfect Hawaiian girl in America will pick up the Chicago International Lightup Art Exhibition. The girl was 15 years old, five feet five, and weighed 131 pounds. The boy was 14 years old, five feet seven, and weighed 155 pounds. You read about it and said, wait to be healthy, but you went right on diving. That was because a lady wasn't the lady unless you had a boy's vision. You tried to be up-to-date and modern, and you frowned on sentiment. You're sitting in a building in New York City at Fifth Avenue and 44th Street, in the company of 50 men. A short distance away, men are at work tearing down the very building in which you were sitting. The moment is a starlight. It will be remembered by everyone present. Gentlemen, this is the last time we shall meet within these walls. For 100 years, the great men of the nation have died here. The greatest beauties of each generation have entered these doors. Will it pass in one of New York's great symbols and landmarks to stars? Gentlemen, will you join me in a last hope to tell Monaco. Remember. In 1925, Del Monaco was torn down. And the papers announced that a 30-story office building would be built. Where is it stood? On January 5, 1925, the first woman governor of the state was inaugurated. This is now a key role of Wyoming. And on January 20, the second woman governor, Mrs. Miriam Ferguson, was inaugurated in Texas. Single hair was the vote. The flapper was the girl of the hour. And your favorite dance, the child dance. Folks had plenty to sing about. And they had plenty of good songs to sing, too. Instant humans was one of our top composers. And the score for his newest musical, No Norma Nets, America found a very tasty tune for dish of tea. For two, for two. An inaugurated person, Mrs. United States. And Charles G. Dawes, King Tuck's tomb was opened. And there was a shocking development in Ireland. Well, now I must say, this is the most embarrassing matter that's ever come to my attention. Where did you find that snake? I found him in Dublin. I wish to close your eyes and look the other way. There hasn't been a snake seen in Ireland that can take passage of rhythm paintings at all. Maybe this was for the leftover. Well, you'd better turn them over to the next one you see. I know they want to put him on each of us. But think that he should discover a snake in Ireland after all these years. The Irish discovered a snake in their midst and promptly put him on exhibit. Oh, there was a lot of things that made headlines that year. Hindenburg was elected president of Germany. There was the land boom in Florida. And the two promising young lads named Rodgers and Hart wrote the score for their first full-fledged musical comedy, Spirit's Enemy. And everyone began humming a great hit song. Back in 1925, still the sentimental songs were your biggest favorites. That's the most sickle-fed with headphones. Red Grains, for Illinois, was the big name in sports. And Lieutenant-Commander Richard E. Byrd was one of the big names in progress. Our Governor, Al Smith, and 80,000 boys marched in the boys' recloyalty day parade. 1925 was the year of the great earthquake in Japan. There was a great cyclone in the middle west. It was the summer that things got so hot in Washington they decided to see if they could fry an egg at the corner of the 40th Centenary Avenue. They could, and they did. The egg fried in exactly nine minutes. Things moved to the merry-clips in the middle of the roaring 20s. Janet Gainer moved from Hollywood right into the heart of America. And the heart of New York was at the feet of Blonde, Blue-eyed, Mal, and Miller, who opened in September of 1925 in Jerome Kern's Great Musical Sonny, singing one of the great hits of all time. From between the United States and Spain, when President Poulos completed the King Alphonseau, the hair of the flasher and the piece of short skirts and helmet hats, the year John Gilbert St. Rene Adderay appeared in a movie, The Big Parade, the name of a film, The Merry Widow. Twenty-five years back to those days of the roaring 20s, the laughter, the headlines, the hours so good to live, so good to look back on. And in 1925, the student prince was one of the great hits of Broadway. And the faraneid was well on his way to becoming immortal. Patience Boy Scouts to the National Jamboree at Valley Fort this week. It seems many years ago, but I still recall my scouting days with a great deal of pleasure. The days packed with adventures, travel, and fun. And this week, 47,000 lads from all over the country will take part in the colorful writing program to commemorate the 40th anniversary of Scouting in America. About eight out of ten will travel by rail. Their parents share their enthusiasm for this trip to cure the knowledge that the railroad will transport their sons safely and comfortably to and from their homes. The American Railroad extends congratulations to the Boy Scouts of America and wish them every success on the eve of this, their 40th anniversary. The Yankee Doodle Boy was a sensation back in the early 1900s, and so is sitting at the Summer Show Train to take you on a special Fourth of July trip to the early 1900s to relive some of their interesting happenings and hear many of the greatest songs of that period, like Yankee Doodle Boy, Mighty Like a Rose, and Ida. So, folks, join us again next Monday and ride with us aboard the Summer Show Train back to the 1900s. If you enjoyed hearing the song of the Vagabond friends and tonight's program, you'll see them and I would like to remind you that we have recorded the entire score of both the Vagabond King and the New Moon and Capitol Records in all three playing speeds. So, now you can hear it too, the upbeat as you enjoy on the railroad hour any time in these new capital albums. It looks as though we're ready to pull out. So until next week, bu-bu-bu-bu-bu-bye. ...brothers take the color western, the return of the frontiersmen. And now for Lucille Norman, common dragon in the orchestra, the Norman Lubloff fire, and our star Gordon McRae. This is Marvel with a hearty invitation from the American Railroad. Join us again next week and ride the Summer Show Train back to the early 1900s. And now, stay tuned to your Monday night of music on...