 transcribed ladies and gentlemen the railroad hour and here comes our star studied show trade tonight the Association of American Railroads presents Victor Herbert's charming operetta orange blossoms starring Gordon McRae and his charming guest Evelyn Case our choir is under the direction of Norman Luboff and the 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 McRae thank you Marvin Miller and good evening ladies and gentlemen in Victor Herbert's charming operetta orange blossoms I play Roger Belmont and lovely Evelyn Case is kitty the girl who gets kissed in the dark you're my lawyer Brossack do something well Roger what do you want me to do let's spring and I'm in love I want you to help me what they didn't teach us about these things in law school Brossack there's only one woman alive in a whole world as far as I'm concerned well who is it this time Ruth no Mary no Sheila absolutely not Helen I thought I've been in love before but Helen tops them all it's true that I'm susceptible to ladies it's true that I'm a weakness for their charm I have always found it to succumb to just difficult all I'm at the landering is over those mates of just one charm have left my mind for my new loves are complete I have found the only sweet thing who has all the other charmers charms combined though I've always played about I can say without a doubt this time it's love for the thumping of my heart from the stars this time and the skies are blue well this way before in my small affairs of your but this time he can say without this part seem to whisper from the stars this time she has made this weary world and the skies Brossack I want to marry Helen but well there's a problem maybe we can solve it legally let's get all this down on paper what's her full name Helen de vacay divorcee yes Aunt Mary and I both met Helen on the revere I loved her immediately and then Mary loathed her so she said if ever I saw Helen again she disinherited me but you saw her anyhow no no Helen left the Riviera a few days later I would have followed her but and Mary became ill and naturally as her perspective there my place was by her side naturally by the time Aunt Mary died I had forgotten you had forgotten Madame de basque oh no no no I'd forgotten her address anyhow I saw her again never saw her again until I met her by chance last week now we're engaged to be married I see Brossack my aunt left me 17 million dollars some I have the greatest respect for well almost as respectable as 18 million dollars ah but in her will she says that I can only inherit that money if I marry within the year and if I do not marry any woman who is the divorced wife of a Brazilian subject Helen's former husband was a Brazilian yes what can I do I don't want to lose Helen I don't want to lose the money we're why not marry someone else just temporarily a marriage of convenience at the end of a year you can get a divorce and and marry Helen where can I find a woman who'd do that I know just the lady all right I'm in your hands I can't see that I care very much for the idea well I have to have someone I can trust in after all you are my god child that isn't necessarily a guarantee that you can trust me where do you you can use the money yes well then what's the matter oh nothing really it's just that like every other girl in the world I've had my own dreams of spring and love and orange blossom here are the papers if you'd like to look them over kitty if you say they're all right I'll sign them well there's a clause stating that if anything develops of a personal nature between you and the gentleman you forfeit the settlement is a fiancee insist on that and she's quite a jealous woman she doesn't have to worry about anything of a personal nature developing under circumstances like these there that sign oh come in I'm sorry I'm late my car stolen traffic Roger what you've met I don't believe I've had the pleasure I'm sorry for a moment I thought we had well this is the young lady kissy me I present Roger Belmont and Roger this is my god child miss Winfrey if you wouldn't mind waiting in the next room Roger we're just completing the arrangement why of course it's a pleasure to meet you miss Winfrey so that's the man what's the matter kitty of course he wouldn't remember why should he I was just a schoolgirl both such children that I had almost forgotten that's all right Roger put the second act of orange blossoms in just a moment of the freight trains well maybe I'm just imagining it but it does seem to me that in that familiar sound there is an added note of pride anyhow today's freight trains have good reason to be proud for in 1951 the average freight train set a new record in serving you by hauling more tons of freight and hauling them faster than ever before the railroad set that new efficiency record while doing the second largest job of hauling they have ever done in peacetime and the important point is you could not have lived as well as you did the nation could not have had the goods and materials needed for commerce and defense without the kind and quantity of railroad service performed in 1951 now the reason the railroads have been able to do these bigger jobs and do them better stems largely from the fact that since the end of World War two they have spent over six billion dollars on improvements that money in average of over one billion dollars a year has bought the new and better equipment and facilities that have given the nation continually better railroad service however while the railroads hauled a near record volume of traffic with record breaking efficiency in 1951 their net earnings were way down and the reason is that the wages prices and taxes they must pay have gone up so much more than the rates they can charge that's why as the railroads carry on with their essential improvement program it is so important to all of us that they be allowed adequate freight rates only then will they be able to keep on raising the money needed for the continued improvement that can alone give America the transportation it needs for commerce and defense now for the second act of orange blossoms starring Gordon Macrae and his guest Evelyn case so kid he and I were married I rented a house for her and she lived there alone I hardly ever saw her since Helen was my fiancee she naturally resented any display of affection on my part towards my wife however I did go out to see kitty with my attorney on the day before she was to file for divorce I wasn't nearly as happy about the whole thing as I thought I would be I left the room so kitty could talk to the lawyer alone out on the veranda I didn't mean to eavesdrop yet well you know how it is when they're talking about you well kitty are you happy why should I be happy the year is up now you can get your divorce collect your settlement and live the way you want to live the way I want to live if I could live the way I really want to live I'd live here with Roger I didn't know you thought that way no idea I'm no good for you I'm a fullander a heel I'm a bum I know what you're no good at all I wouldn't go as far as to say that as a matter of fact I don't like you at all I just want to stay married to you kitty you'll be a free woman tomorrow you'll be lots of attractive men but how could anyone be as attractive as you are right about that it doesn't matter to you how I feel does it all that matters is how Helen feels no kitty you've got to find a man and be happy to why any man would fall for you tell them all to run along you like the way or not yourself today now kitty everything's going to be all right for you I'm sure of it when living here alone has probably made you over sentimental I'm sure tomorrow you feel a great deal differently are you I'm positive you tell her that Roger you can make her understand kitty these days are trying but they can never look so tomorrow when saw pretty picture Helen Helen this is my wife kitty this is my fiance how do you do you've broken the terms of your agreement you know Roger it is stated in the contract most clearly nothing of a personal nature is to develop between you two all right I thought I did the settlement you can keep your money I wouldn't touch it anyway kitty don't worry I won't spoil your little romance I never want to see you again is that clear Roger let her go my dear you know you hate women who make things thank goodness she'll be out of your life for good tomorrow Ellen yes darling goodbye what did you say I said goodbye I'm going away at all kitty after all this was a modern marriage a marriage of convenience you know as well as I do a fellow can't get along without modern conveniences Evelyn case we're back in just a moment now thanks to Isabel jewel Howard McNair and to our entire company orange blossoms with music by Victor Herbert and book and lyrics by Fred degray sock BG to silver was dramatized for the railroad hour by Gene Holloway the railroad hour is brought to you each week at this time by the American railroads last year Americans lived better and America grew stronger as the nation's productive might swell and your railroads an essential part of all production whether for commerce or defense did their part setting a new record for efficiency and hauling a near record peacetime volume of freight despite that fact railroad earnings continued to fall as expenses went up faster and farther than railroad rates and revenues today as the railroads carry on with their billion dollar a year program of investment better facilities for better service it's important to all of us that they be allowed to earn the money they need for that program now here again is charming Evelyn case thank you God tell me do you have this trouble every week on the railroad hour trying to decide which girl to marry well Evelyn it seems as if every story in the musical theater was written to be played on just one instrument for the triangle no no common not the musical triangle the eternal triangle who are the corners of your triangle next week Gordon well one corner is the devil mephestrophiles himself or I'm going to play the author of Faust Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and the prettier corner of the triangle will be the gracious star of pictures and Broadway lovely Patricia Morris it must be France Lejas delightful Federica well that's right Evelyn will you listen to see if I get the girl no I already know but I listen anyway good night Gordon good night Evelyn all aboard no friends it looks as though we're ready to pull out and so until next Monday night and Fred Rieker this is Gordon Macrae saying good night orange blossoms was presented by special arrangement with the Tams Whitmark music library Gordon Macrae can be seen starring in Warner Brothers Starlet our choir is under the direction of Norman Luboff and our music is prepared and conducted by Carmen Dragon this is Marvin Miller saying goodbye until next week for the American Railroad now keep tuned for your Monday night of music on NBC the preceding was transcribed here Barbara Gibson on the telephone hour next on NBC