 Ladies and gentlemen the railroad hour and from Hollywood here comes the star-studded show train Tonight your railroads through the Association of American Railroads present the delightful musical comedy hit good news In our star-studded cast you will hear the host of our series Gordon Macrae Two lovely guest stars Dinah Shore and Jane Powell and a great cast of Hollywood featured players The entire production set to the music of Carmen Dragons Orchestra and 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 the things you use in your daily life And now here is Gordon Macrae This is Gordon Macrae helping to bring you the first in our series of musical comedy successes Tonight the railroad hour show train presents the Lawrence Schwab de Silva Brown and Henderson musical hit good news Starring Dinah Shore is Connie Lane Jane Powell is Babo Day yours truly is Tommy Mallow and a great supporting cast including Jim Backus, Mary Lee Robb, Lou Meryl and Rye Billsbury Marvin Miller is our announcer our chorus is under the direction of Norman Lube off and our orchestra is presided over by Maestro Carmen Dragon who is now playing the final spades of our title number good news Certain rises on the first act of good news put gymnasium on the campus at Tate College They both a a blue-eyed little blonde co-ed is trying to teach a new dance step to a group of freshmen You freshmen take the prize So if you kids want to be in the swim at the dance tomorrow night after our team beats Colton You better pay attention and learn this step. I'm going to show you just once more and that's all so watch carefully Okay, Maestro give here is the drag see how it goes up. I said just a minute beef's honest What's the big idea Tommy Mallow's gonna meet me here in the gym any minute Touch me why Tate's greatest football star wants to waste time with a lug like you Well, if you must know I got to teach him a couple of secret plays to pull in the game with Colton tomorrow You're gonna teach Tommy Mallow football That's like my dream ain't showing Jane Russell how to wear a bathing suit. Come on everybody once more Okay, if you don't believe me, here's Tommy now ask him yourself Hi fellas. Hi gals say what's going on, babe? You showing the kids how to do the varsity drag Let's get more on the beat Tommy. Let's say trying to show them This punch doesn't have any more backbone than a plate full of jelly Oh now look kids the varsity drag is something everybody ought to know It's one of the nicest subjects you can learn at Tate. You see we've always thought knowledge is not we should be taught To dance right here with Tate. We're up to date. We teach a great new dance first lesson right now You love it and how you love it here is the drag see how it goes down on the heels up in the toes That's the way to do the varsity drag What's up Bobby well coach Johnson is holding a special meeting with the team down in his office I guess everybody's gonna be there because I got to go to coach even wants a substitute sound Bobby I'll lay off his bills. You're speaking of the man. I love Bobby. I thought you preferred the athletic type Bobby is the athletic type. He plays football and preferably quarterback. He plays baseball preferably shortstop He wrestles preferably women Well, don't worry about it Bobby, you'll get your chance to play tomorrow. All right in my place. What oh, no You're kidding aren't you Tommy? No Bobby. I'm not kidding didn't pass my astronomy exam. Professor Kenyon just told me Tommy no if you can't play we're legged Cole will beat us 50 to nothing Tommy darling. Oh Pat hello, I just heard the devastating news. How could you fail to pass Tommy? How could you when you knew perfectly well that I bought a new gown for the prom? Well, Tommy isn't any chance at all that you can play. Well, there's just a slim chance Bobby Professor Kenyon is gonna give me another exam and Pat You're so good in astronomy that I thought if you'd help me study I might be able to pass or tell me darling, you know, I'll help you I was sure you would Pat why I would have bet my last nickel on it if I were a betting man And aren't you a betting man? I don't ever gamble Sweetheart I refuse Not because I hate to Simply cause I always Loot lucky boys who gamble. I've got luck that beats their luck a Thousand gosh, Pat. I ought to start studying right now. Can't you break it break an engagement with my hair drawing? That's impossible. I'll meet you sys. Why at the bench behind the chemistry Laboratory and why you drag me down here this little bench behind the chem lab Connie darling I'm in trouble dreadful trouble. Do you know Tommy Marlowe? No. Oh, of course I know that he's the captain of the football team and he's your friend, but I don't know him Well, you're going to Tonight you heard that Tommy didn't pass his astronomy exam. Well, yes, but they say you're gonna tutor him Well, I was but Confidentially beef Saunders new car was just delivered a luscious red convertible and he's asked me to go riding with him So I want you to take my place. Oh, there's beef now. I'll have to run. Oh Pat Here comes Tommy. Oh, do I look all right? Well, you look perfect darling And anyway, all you're going to tutor him in is astronomy He'll learn about women from me gosh Pat. I didn't expect you to be running time. I oh Pardon me. I thought you were Pat Bingham. I'm I'm Connie Lane, mr. Marlowe Pat asked me to meet you at this bench and help you with your astronomy she She has a terrible headache. Oh the poor kid. That's too bad And it's nice of you to help but trying to teach me anything is gonna be pretty tough to take Sort of like going to the dentist. Oh, no, it won't mr. Marlowe because I'm gonna put something in your head not take it out Well, I guess there's plenty of room and won't you call me Tommy? All right, Tommy Now what is it about astronomy that's so difficult for you? You know, I just this minute figured that out something has always been missing before Astronomy is a subject for two to study. Good. Well, then open your textbook to page 85 You think there's enough light from the street lamp to see oh, yes And everything I see is very beautiful The stars aren't beautiful tonight, aren't they? Oh, I wasn't thinking of the stars But you must if you're gonna pass that exam tomorrow now. Tell me what planet is that planet? Oh Well, let's see What's the use of guessing there's too many of them all right, I'll tell you that's Venus you see Yes, I see. I'm looking right at her and she's beautiful Well, I Don't know how Patricia would like my being Venus. Oh, what do you know about Patricia? She's my cousin your cousin woman. Why haven't I seen you before around the sorority house? Oh, I'm not a member I'm sort of a poor relation, you know, does that worry you much not particularly a lot of things in this world Make up for the shortage of money. I'm listening teacher well there are so many kinds of riches and Only one of them is gold You know from now on that's my philosophy Please wait a minute. I I used to know now. Don't tell me never mind. It's Mars. Oh, yes faithful old Mars Still there Mars is in the same constellation as Venus and he looks right across at her all the time Can you remember that? How can Mars forget the Venus right here at his side? Oh, tell me please You have to study. I know and you've already taught me so much the flowers in sprays that sing Sunbeams that show down comes the curtain on the first act of that grand musical comedy good news Brought to you by the railroads of the nation cooperating through the Association of American Railroads and Now I'd like to present to you William T. Ferresi president of that association Tonight, mr. Ferresi is in st. Louis, Missouri Attending a meeting of the National Association of Shippers advisory boards Mr. Ferresi good evening ladies and gentlemen As you have just heard there is now meeting in st. Louis an Organization representing the shippers of most of the nation's freight These businessmen 25,000 of them work with the railroads to improve service You and I and everybody in the country benefit directly from their cooperation Long ago the railroads learned that to give the very best service They not only had to work with each other, but also with the public 25 years ago one group of their customers set up the first regional shippers advisory board The work of the board was so valuable that soon there were 13 boards covering the entire country In 1937 they joined to form the National Association of Shippers advisory boards These boards while working with the railroads are not made up of railroad men Instead they are made up of shippers who work with each other and with the railroads to help provide the whole country With more adequate and more efficient transportation of freight These boards made their greatest contribution so far during the Second World War When their consistent Organized help was one of the things which made it possible For the railroads to handle the tremendous volume of wartime traffic in such a way as to shorten the timetable to victory So tonight we take pleasure in saluting the shippers advisory boards and their national Association for their great contribution to meeting the transportation needs of America and the railroads of America Your railroads Welcome you all of you to the first railroad hour Now the curtain rises on the second act of good news It's the next morning and Tommy Marlowe is walking up the steps of Astronomy Hall Ready to take his examination when he stopped by the voice of his roommate Bobby Randall calling excitedly Hey Tommy Tommy what's the matter Bobby? How's the astronomy you're gonna pass that test? Oh, I sure am I was coached last night by the most wonderful girl in the world. You mean Pat Bingham No her cousin Connie Lane. Oh Bobby. She's a dream. Yeah, but what about Pat? The Queen is dead long lived the Queen. Do you you mean it Tommy certainly? I mean it why why I love Pat Tommy why I've loved her from the very first day you laid eyes on her But I I was too honorable to say so and besides you outweigh me then bless you my children bless you oh Patrish if I ever get a chance shut up Bobby here. She comes well I'll run along and let you give her the RKO privately the RKO. Yeah, the Royal Kiss Off Tommy oh Tommy darling, I want to apologize to you Apologize well when I asked Connie to help you out I didn't think she'd be stupid enough to make you study all night. I didn't find her stupid She wants me to pass you mean I don't why you must know me better than that Tom or you never would have proposed to me Yes, I I did propose didn't I did you I have it in writing I always keep the letter right here next to my heart, you know Well the fatal hour has struck I go to my doom Tommy Tommy Tommy I was afraid I wouldn't get here in time to wish you luck. Well, thank you Venus go to it Mars and Tommy Here's a kiss from me to wish you the best There's the last bell. Well, uh so long and thanks for everything. Oh, I want him to pass Tom Marlowe You've just got a pass why Connie darling? I never knew you were such a router for the school. Oh, I love the school Well, just don't let that affection bubble over on the Tom Marlowe darling Remember he's mine if I want him and I want him if he passes that exam this morning. Well Maybe he is yours, but He says you'll pass all right thought you were going to press my dress for the football rally before the game Oh, I'm I'm sorry Patricia. I'll do it right away. Yes Connie you press the dress while I press my suit Why don't you get started oh There you go Pat no one understands me. I'm a serious minded young man Well, don't start making love to me if you want me to be serious. I'll go on necking is out of my line It is silly isn't it? Oh, it sure is now take your hand for instance It's a nice hand, but as I hold it it it doesn't give me any thrill why well It's power of mind over matter why Bobby you're a psychologist Yeah, given 15 years of my life to it and then then there's the kiss, you know the most overrated thing in the world It's all in the mental attitude. Let me show you now that's over. What have you got wet lips? Well, certainly now you just take your knees for instance Bobby matter got the best of mind for a minute How dare you make love to me your roommates fiancee well, I thought it was all off between you and Tom off nothing I'm going to marry him if he passes the exam and wins the game tomorrow. Hey, what's going on here? Sure, good. I'll let you drive me back to the sorority house if you like was swell I'll bring the news about Tommy's exam up to the house Yeah, what's happened Bobby's exam over here. Well, not yet, babe. We were just oh no My gosh here. Here comes professor Kenyon now. Oh, yeah, good morning students lovely day, isn't it? We hope it's going to be professor. Oh What do you mean? Well, you know sir this afternoon Tate plays Colton. We thought yes I know I'm very much interested in football. Yeah, she that's great I should very much like to see Tate beat Colton this afternoon you would she that's great Then tell us professor. How did Tom Marlowe doing the examination you just gave him. Oh, yes Tom Marlowe Well, here's his paper. Let's see Listen to this Sir Jay Herschel Estimated there are a biggin stars down to the 18th magnitude. What holds them in place? That was my question And now here's Tom Marlowe's answer Mars and Venus they are in the same constellation and he looks across at her all the time Oh, even I know that ain't right. Oh gosh Uh Tell me Just how good is this Colton team? Oh terribly good And do we need Tom Marlowe to win do we we could use Glenn Davis too? Yeah, let me see 75 is the passing grade You can tell mr. Marlowe that his grade on this examination is 76 what? You can't say I haven't the old Tate spirit. Oh professor Kenyon. You've got the spirit of 76 Well, I told you we'd come up here to the sorority house and tell you the news about Tom's examination Didn't I Pat? Yes, but I didn't expect such a crowd between the band everybody, but everybody wanted to give you the good news And now we can play this afternoon and we'll win too. I know we will you know I've had a dozen almost lately that everything is going to be alright, so I know good news must be on its way Of the night I saw my lucky star kids. What's all the shouting for Tommy? Hey everybody? Here? And what is it what's going on your past and if I'm all the lucky say you haven't seen Connie around have you Oh not since this morning darling. Oh, I wanted to thank you for all she's done Oh, there. She is over by the door a few excuse me. I wouldn't go now darling Why not for Pete's sake? Well you see who she's with don't you? Sure, I see babe O'Day Bobby Randall and beef Saunders. What about it beef darling? He's a very jealous young man or so Connie tells me You mean Connie and beef But of course darling ever since their freshman year. Come on everybody a cheer for Tommy Marlowe In the world why because there'll be something wonderful leaving him on to victory It's love. Yes, Patricia Bingham has promised that if Tommy wins a game tomorrow She will marry him Students don't let's forget the little girl who worked with him who helped him pass the exam So they can play this afternoon and win the fair Patricia fellow students. Don't forget Connie Lane What to say? I hope they'll be very happy and now beef if you've got that red convertible handy What do you say we go for a ride? Goodbye everybody. Connie. You see Johnny. I told you she was beef's girl Now aren't you gonna finish the song for me? What? Oh? sure Faris a president of the Association of American Railroads told you earlier on this program How the railroads and the shippers of the nation worked together to produce better and better transportation? That's just part of the story for there is the same sort of cooperation among the railroads themselves Teamwork indeed is the very heart of better railroad transportation Yes, this cooperation has made it possible for every car of any railroad to travel over the tracks of every other railroad in the country More than that these cars can be put into trains including cars from many different lines can be repaired at any railroad shop This is only one example of the cooperation that makes our continent-wide railroad operation possible On this program the railroad hour We plan to tell you something of this fascinating story the story back of the daily job of providing our nation with the safest most efficient Most economical transportation in the world We will be back with a third act of good news in just a moment We pause briefly now for station identification The curtain rises on the third act of good news the big game between Colton and Tate is just about to begin And as professor Kenyon approaches the stadium. He meets Connie Lane Good afternoon miss Lane. Aren't you headed in the wrong direction? No, I'm not nothing and nobody in this college interests me at all Not even the young man you tutored for the examination. No What's more? I hope he loses the game Even though I did slave to make him pass the examination. Well, you did coach and he passed to we got 76 Hmm my dear that 76 is only one of the sins of an old professor who has a young heart in football season Connie you're running the wrong direction the games over that way. I'm not going babe now Connie Don't be a drip time didn't propose to Patricia. That is not after you met you Bobby told me the whole thing Pat has a letter or something and she's holding him to it now Will you go to the game? But I tore up my ticket baby. Oh, who needs a ticket come with me my friend I know where there's the best little hole in the fence that big enough for the two of us to see everything a hole in the fence Are you sure babe? Well, I should be I put it there last night myself Brother this team ought to spend half time in a powder room not a locker room That Colton team did to you guys in the first half was a crime more layoff Bobby We've only got a few minutes to rest up between halves and dry up rest up from watch. You didn't do anything out there What was worrying you beat? Did you see the boogeyman? Haven't you ever heard about tackling football players don't stop when you tag them Gosh, I wish the coach had put me in boy. I'd show them layoff when you lay off What am I gonna tell my grandchildren? Grandpa was a football player Then I'll have to show him this suit without a spot on it And it's for injuries the only scar I got us from a splinter off the bench What differences that make the game's lost anyway scores three to nothing and if Colton keeps on like they are We haven't got a chance. Well, we would have time would go out there and show the fellas how to play Don't you know that when you play Tom, they all play with you. You never did this before What's eating? Oh, it's nothing Bobby. I'll be all right. Well, if you don't win this game, you can't marry Pat Hey, hey, wait a minute. Maybe that's what's wrong You don't want to marry Pat. Shut up Bobby. Oh, sure. That's it. You're in love with Connie You want to marry Connie Lane, don't you Bobby? Well, you shut up. Now look don't pay any attention to him beef He's out of his mind. Don't make any difference of me Tom if you want to marry Connie Lane, go ahead and marry her Why isn't Connie your girl beef? His girl of course. She isn't his girl beef's nuts about Patricia He's been riding around his new red convertible for weeks. Is that true beef? You're not kidding now. Is that true? Sure, it's true Connie Lane thinks I'm a dumb bunny. Oh, brother Okay, there goes the signal for the last half fellas. Let's go out there and show that Colton team how to play football Yeah, I think beef just got hurt Hey, he's gonna play a bench under him. Oh, there can't be more than two minutes left to play. Oh Babe supposing Tom loses the game Well, that's what I thought he was trying to do in the first half But something came over him in this half. They could just get one lucky break Well, there they go times in they've lined up look they passed the ball back to Bobby Yeah, it was a very foolish thing and I want you to let me off. What won't you know every girl and Tate is after me? Yes, and they can have you. This is taking raw material polishing it up and throwing it back in circulation Oh, but babe those girls don't understand me. They think I'm a hero. Oh, you gotta marry me Oh, it's a good thing you said that this brick is getting awfully heavy Oh nice going kids and all sorts of congratulations, but by any chance have you seen Connie Lena? I've been looking for her all over the place Connie didn't come to the dance Tommy the last I saw of her She was sitting on that little bench behind the chemistry lab. Oh, thanks, babe. Thanks a lot Hello Connie. Oh, it's you. I Just found out you were here. I've been looking for you ever since the game Well, you found me so now you can go right back to the dance into the girl. You're gonna marry But the girl I'm gonna marry isn't at the dance Connie. I I mean the girl I hope to marry isn't at the dance. Oh Connie don't just see it. It's you. I'm crazy about just you Hello Venus Somebody broke that streetlight some little ruffian must have thrown a rock at it Oh, you're wrong miss Lane. You're wrong. I did it. Why professor Kenya For years, I've had an insane desire to smash one of those things and and I couldn't have picked a better time Well, that's kind of an about-face isn't the professor after that astronomy exam you threw at me this morning Oh, don't say that Tom your exam paper was awful and the professor passed you just cuz he likes you likes me But I'm going to leave you with someone who likes you a little better than I Mm-hmm My my look at Mars and look at Venus They seem closer together tonight than and they've ever been before Gordon Macrae giving a special vote of thanks to our two lovely guest stars this evening miss dinosaur and miss Jane Powell and To the other members of tonight's cast for their fine performances in our production of good news Which was adapted for radio by Ed Gardner Next week our star-studded show train will arrive in the same tracks at the same time On board will be mr. Victor Moore and miss market Whiting to join me in bringing you the famous Cold Porter musical Anything goes with our chorus under the direction of Norman Lube off and the music arranged and conducted by Carmen dragon Well, it looks as though we're ready to pull out so until next week goodbye And remember during the coming week as always the American rarals will provide for you the dependable low-cost Transportation which is so essential to the American way of living Miss dinosaur appeared by courtesy of Columbia records listen to her latest release buttons and bows miss Jane Powell appeared by arrangement with Metro Golden mayor producers of the Technicolor picture three musketeers starring Lana Turner Jean Kelly and June Allison Gordon Macrae appeared through the courtesy of Warner Brothers This is Marvin Miller speaking the railroad hour is brought to you each week at this time by the association of American railroads ABC the American broadcasting company