 Collect appeal brothers Brooklyn, New York Ladies and gentlemen the railroad hour And here comes our star-studded show train Tonight the association of American railroads presents transcribed the world premiere of a new musical play by Lawrence and Lee Penny Whistle Starring Gordon Macrae and his celebrated guest Dorothy Warren show Our choir is under the direction of Norman Luboff and our music is prepared and conducted by Carmen dragon Yes, tonight another musical first is brought to you by the American railroads 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 Macrae And good evening ladies and gentlemen Tonight Dorothy Warren show this Fanny Osborne Stevenson, and I am Robert Lewis Stevenson as we present Penny Whistle Fanny news wonderful news Oh Louis they've accepted the poems the penny whistle volume the whole lot of them they promised to make a beautiful little book out of Oh, why shouldn't they I love them everybody else will too Fanny there was nothing in the marriage boughs that said you had to like everything I write. Do you know my favorite? bed in summer In winter I get up at night and dress by yellow candlelight In summer quite the other way. I have to go to bed by day You've memorized them. How can I help it? They're all like songs each one sings a little melody like songs. I remember Fanny Fanny you spoil me, but I'm glad you like these little verses. They mean a great deal to you Louis don't they their memories Fanny of the days when I was chained to a sick bed I couldn't run and play like the other boys Well, I went voyaging nonetheless My body stayed at home, but my mind went traveling far beyond the counterpane How wonderful it will look in print Penny whistle by Robert Lewis Stevenson. Oh, I forgot to tell you the publisher has changed the title They're calling it a child's garden of verses But to me they'll always be Penny whistle the little piping sounds I made you Make a little sound like a penny with so many And the sound comes from your heart and soul the world around you If you do the tiny whistle, it'll make a little tune And soon your panty whistle sound is floating through the moon It travels like this In the Your penny If you do the tiny whistle, it'll make a little tune You see Fanny, I'm cursed with a disease of optimism. I write a handful of three penny verses and already I've made myself a mortal So fill your song with heart beats and love and everything And then your penny whistle We'll make the whole world see Oh Louis wait until your friend Henley hears about it How can you hope to outlast the flimsy paper of this edition by writing nursery rhymes? Perhaps I'm not gifted with your profanity Henley. I write what I can take this story The magazine's printed it because it amuses the 12 year olds, but how long can you cater to them? This isn't the stuff that makes books treasure maps and The bottle of rum I like it. I like treasure island. Oh be quiet Henley Louie you should be wrestling with the problems of existence instead of writing where go the boats dark brown Now we're going to wait a minute. I don't like the way you read it Fanny my love say the verse the way it should be said of course Louie Good Fanny, thank you All right, William Ernest Henley advocate of the deep there it is simple Unprofound a child song written by a child overgrown perhaps, but a child No wrestling with angels. No demons or devils Exactly what you said it was nursery rhyme Are you all right? Of course my love. I'm all right. I'm not dying one of these days soon perhaps, but not quite yet That's no way to speak you must defeat death Louie you must be the master of your universe and here Here's a poem I have written read it perhaps it will strengthen you. What a flourishing title in Victus Fanny listen to mr. Henley's formula for mastering the universe I think whatever God's may be Fine poem a brave poem But it's not true God is the captain of my soul and if God calls my ship into harbor who am I to say the voyage must not end so soon Louie stop talking about death. Nobody's going to die Fanny Too many things to do too many things to see Fanny let's tell mr. Henley here how we see the world in a nursery rhyme. All right Louie The world is so full of a number of things. I'm sure we should all be as happy as king There are stories to tell and music to sing There are flowers to take you to lands of delight The sunrise to wake you and starlight at night There are winters and orphans and summers and springs and miles of smoke And in a moment for act two of penny whistle Just for a moment. I'm going to ask you to close your eyes and picture in your mind a field of wheat and a railroad freight car They don't look much alike. Do they in one important respect? However, they are very much alike Both are essential if you and all of us are to have bread and flour and cereal in our kitchens But standing alone neither one can provide food for your family For just as the freight car must be coupled together with other freight cars and a locomotive in order to bring you your bread So america's wheat fields must be coupled up with grain elevators flour mills and bakeries in order to make your bread And to do that calls for a mighty job of transportation by america's railroads To carry out that tremendous and complicated job requires the closest kind of teamwork and planning america's wheat crop in 1953 is estimated at more than one billion bushels And stored in grain elevators is a carryover from last year of another three quarters of a billion bushels Making it a major problem to find sufficient storage space for the new crop Right now thousands upon thousands of railroad box cars are busy moving this year's torrent of grain And the freight cars will keep coming in endless lines Just as long as there's a place to put the grain Then as the wheat is sold the railroads will move it on in a steady stream to the mills Where it will be made into flour and cereal and other basic foods for the tables of america All told this calls for the world's biggest single transportation job a railroad-sized job Now here is act two of penny whistles starring gordon macray as robert louis stevensson And dorothy warren should as fanny osborne stevensson Robert louis stevensson there Louis Louis, what in the world are you writing that looks like some kind of legal document? It is my love I have just given away my birthday. You were birthday I had a letter from a little girl who was born on the 25th of december Terrible thing to have happen to a child who likes to get presents twice a year So I affected a transfer listen I robert louis stevensson Being in sound mind and pretty well. I thank you in body Do hereby make this grant In consideration that miss annie h. Ide Was born out of all reason upon christmas day I hereby transfer to her all my rights and privileges In the 13th day of november formerly my birthday But now completely hers to have hold and enjoy By the eating of birthday cake with candles By the receiving of gifts Congratulations and compliments according to the manner of our ancestors I charge her to use this birthday with moderation and humanity Said birthday not being as young as it once was Miss I bus becomes a month and 12 days younger than she was But will undoubtedly go on growing older from one november 13th to the next The effect on the undersigned is more doubtful Lacking her birthday. I may now live forever or I might come to pieces like the one horse she had a moment's notice Doubtless this step is risky But I do not the least regret That which enables me to sign myself Your delighted name father Robert Lewis Stevenson Oh louis That's wonderful And as for you and me my love We're going away away. I've chartered a little ship and we're going to find ourselves an enchanterdile Tahiti or samoa My love are you my passenger my fellow voyager on every sea that was ever chartered The crew very nice At least the crew could do is to sing one of my songs instead of tenacents Oh, well He's the poet laureate very singable. I wish I'd written it It and I don't know if I can have you said your prayers like a good boy Well, but I shall the one prayer of my life Dear lord give us grace and strength Give us courage and gaiety And the quiet mind Can you sleep now my love? Sing to me fanny All right louis There's a verse that was written long ago by a young man I once met a sailor a hunter a teller of tales a dreamer of dreams As a matter of fact, I liked him so much. I married him Now there was a foolish thing to do and do you remember the verse? Oh, it's I that have the captain of a tidying little ship of a ship that was sailing on the And my ship it keeps on turning all around and all of us But when I'm a little older, I shall find the secret out How do you send my vessel sailing on beyond Then you'll see me sailing through the rushes and the reeds And you'll hear the water singing at the crowd Oh beside the dally sailor I'm to voyage and And upon the island where no dally was before My love I'm sure the man who named the islands of the pacific the happy isles The enchanted isles had a wife as wonderful as you beside him Will we get there soon louis oh my beloved don't you know that to travel hopefully is far better than to arrive King of the island of samoa Half king half exile are you sorry we came here? No no fanny. I wish I could live it all over again First sight of the first sunrise on the first island of the southern seas Why are you unhappy? I'm a failure my love. I'm 44 and I have accomplished nothing The men and women of this island adore you the name they've given you is like music to sit down The teller of wondrous tales Oh fanny and me I quote my husband So long as we love we serve So long as we are loved by others. I would almost say we are indispensable Yes when I wrote that I was young and a little foolish Life lay ahead of me now it is all behind me Oh no louis no look there out of the window Not by here with its peak floating in the clouds That is where I wish to lie my love close to the stars But still close to the sound of the sea. Oh no you are not going to die I have left a little poem It will tell you how I feel Oh my love I could only have left behind some monument in print But shall I be remembered for a few jingles a handful of magazine stories that line the dustbins My father and my grandfather built great lighthouses Enduring lighthouses was beacon lights cut through the dark But my penny whistle has made such a a little little sound Louis Louie Many letters My dear mrs. Stevenson May one unknown to you will share your sorrow at the loss of so greater man May I tell you only that my sick child grows better as he reads your husband's brave poems One stanza and the pain and loneliness seem to disappear That goes in and out with me and what can be the use of him is more than I can see Oh louie Oh my love Dear mrs. Stevenson My little girl has a garden by her bedside a garden of verses Planted by your husband My daughter is crippled But she walks in that garden which belongs to the children of the world How do you like to go up in a swing up in the air so blue? Oh, I don't think it's the pleasantest thing every child can do Oh my love your little penny whistle sound is floating to the moon Oh Sleep well my love close to the stars Ten chieftains carried you there to rest and dream And they have carved into the mountainside the words you wrote This is the verse you and your husband The Dorothy Warren show will be back in just one moment and meanwhile our hearty thanks to Lou Meryl Patty iron known stuffy singer and our entire company Penny whistle with special music by Carmen dragon was written by laurence and lee The music of where go the boats is by ethyl burt nevin The railroad hours brought to you each week at the same time by the american railroads Marvin in all this world There's probably no bigger challenge in the field of transportation and the annual job of moving america's vast grain crop to market Thousands and thousands of railroad box cars must be in the right place at the right time There must be sufficient storage space in the grain elevators And the most careful advance planning is necessary if the tidal wave of wheat is to move smoothly and steadily to its destination But above all else It's the vast hauling capacity and flexibility of the railroads that make this huge transportation job possible Thank you, marvin. Well, that was a sweet sad and lovely story, gordon. Well, you know, Dorothy There's a story behind the story It was a retired school teacher in pittsburgh who suggested that we make the story of robert louis stevenson into a musical play Her name is mary eastman. She taught for many years at patrick henry junior high school in cleveland Though she taught on crutches Like stevenson the music of her penny whistle has echoed in the lives of the many many children She's taught thank you miss eastman from all of us. Yes, sir a very big thanks One of the best ways to build your future security and to save for long range personal objectives Is to invest in united states savings bonds through the payroll savings plan where you work or the bond the month plan at your bank You help yourself and you help your country when you buy savings bonds All aboard Well, dear friends It looks as though we're ready to pull out and so until next monday night in our 250th broadcast the frimmel story On behalf of the other members of the cast and of the american railroads. This is your friend gordon mackray saying goodbye The railroad hour was transcribed in hollywood gordon mackray can be seen in warner brothers the desert song in technicolor 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 railroads Now stay tuned for your monday night of music on nvc hear the voice of