 Motion pictures have never been made in Hollywood, California. Bandits use barbed wire to rob a bank. Dolly Madison was the only woman in private life to be accorded the privileges of the floor in the U.S. House of Representatives. Can you imagine that? Once more, friends, this is Lindsay McCarrie bringing you another session of this series in which we try to amaze you with odd facts and unusual news stories from the past. We'll be back with you in just one-and-a-half minutes. Will you wait for us? Here's our first interesting item. It's really two-in-one because, well, just listen to the gentleman from Tennessee speaking on the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives on Jackson Day, January 8, 1844. Oh, Mr. Speaker, what a colossal bloodshed rest of... The United States House of Representatives honor 74-year-old Dolly Madison, widow of James Madison, by according her the privileges of the floor of the house. Up to the present writing, Dolly Madison is the only woman in private life who has ever been accorded this honor. Can you imagine that? It was also during that same year, 1844, that Congress ordered Andrew Jackson's $1,000 contempt of court fine to be repaid with interest. The agent ex-president later received a U.S. government warrant to the amount of $2,700. You've often heard the expression, you can drive a horse to water, but you can't make him drink. Well, from a newspaper of more than 35 years ago comes this story. Mr. Charles Cot was driving his horse and wagon down a street in Chicago on a cold, wintry mid-December day. Perhaps Mr. Cot had a little early Christmas spirit at any rate as he drove along. Ah, today's the other way, we go to la-la-la-la. Just look, there's a good old quickly saloon. I gotta stop and have a little drink. Silly boy! Now you wait here, boy, you wait here, and I'll be right up. Here, you're a couple with me. Or she's got to get warm inside, too. And I'll get you on the harness there. You and me, you'll have a little drink and get a good old quickly saloon. Now, come on. I want old quickly be surprised. Come on, let's go, come on. What'd you say? Well? Oh, yes, you do want a drink. Now, come on, don't be stubborn. Get up and have a little drink with me. Come on, now, you get up and drink. Mr. Cot's horse did not enter quickly for the little drink, but Mr. Cot did enter Corth the next day charged with disturbing the peace. Perhaps the judge was an animal fancier for his sentence was... Charles Cot, I appreciate the motives, but not the method. I'm going to let you off, though, and find you merely the court cost. But hereafter, don't try to drag your horse into a saloon. So did Charles Cot of Chicago learn the full force of the old proverb, you can drive a horse to water, but you can't make him drink. Can you imagine that? The ultimate in bank robbery stories comes from a newspaper of January 2, 1909. It seems that in Wellston, Oklahoma, some of the townspeople were surprised to see... Ah, but listen. What's the idea over there with the bank? Look, hey, what's going on? I didn't hear nothing about them building a barbed wire fence around the place. What do you suppose the idea is? I don't know. Well, let's... Hey! Look, them fellas building the fence have got guns. Oh, yeah! Well, some of them are scattering along the fence. That's a hold-up! Turned if it ain't. Them fellas built that fence to hold us off while they robbed the bank. Get the rest of the boys, quick! Get up! While the citizens of Wellston were kept at bay by the robbers within the enclosure formed by the fence, the robbers worked on the vault and suddenly... They got it! They blew the vault! And here they come! Look out! The robbers got away after a running gun battle and with them went $5,000 from the vault of the Bank of Wellston. And this robbery remains the first and only case I can find of bank robbers actually building a fence around the bank and then proceeding calmly to rob the bank while some of them held off the townspeople by means of a barbed wire fence and bullets. Can you imagine that? Mr. James Artlip of Aurora, Illinois likes the movies. Oh, you don't think that's new, huh? Well, Mr. Artlip is 68 years old and on February 24th, 1939, he saw his first movie. When interviewed, said the newest fan of Hollywood's make-believe. Yes, sir, I think they got something there. I sure do like them. Honestly, it's... Well, it's just marvelous. Pictures actually move on the screen and you can hear the actors talk. You like them, huh? You better do. I think I'll go see another one sometime. Why have you taken so long to get to a movie, Mr. Artlip? Well, I just never got around to it before. I pass four theaters every day but I just never thought about going into one. Well, what made you go in this time? Why, I saw it was a picture about Jesse James. I thought I might just as well see it because I read a book about him. So chalk up another conquest for Hollywood and the flickering photos even though it did take them 68 years to win Mr. James Artlip. Can you imagine that? You remember this startling statement at the beginning of the program? Motion pictures have never been made in Hollywood, California. Well, like our others, that statement is true. Why? Because there is no such recognized town or city of Hollywood, California. It wasn't until a year 1910 that the motion picture producers realized that their needs for strong lighting could be filled by the brilliant Southern California sunshine that came to that region to build their first studios. They settled in the portion of the city of Los Angeles which had been the town of Hollywood. But in that same year, 1910, previous to the arrival of these first movie magnets, the town of Hollywood had already been annexed to the city of Los Angeles. And so our statement is true. Motion pictures have never been made in Hollywood, California. Can you imagine that? Well, now let's do a little foraging into the field of melody sleuthing. First of all, I want you to listen to a semi-classic selection which I'm sure you've heard before, many, many times. The orchestra is going to play only a few measures, so listen carefully. And as you listen, try to recollect the name of the number itself and also the more modern popular number which this semi-classic selection most resembles. Are you ready? All right, listen. What's the name of that selection? Oh, I remember that, Lindsay. It's Cavatina by the famous German composer Joseph Joachim Raff. That's right. Raff's Cavatina. Well, now, among all of you here assembled, can anyone recognize it as the possible foundation of one of our most popular hits of a few years ago? I think I did, Lindsay. All right, what is it? My Baby's Arms. And that is also correct. My Baby's Arms. Listen now, ladies and gentlemen, and see whether or not there is a distinct similarity between Raff's Cavatina and that smash hit from the Siegfeld Follies of 1919, My Baby's Arms. One more session of Can You Imagine That? We all hope you'll be listening on this same station when next we're scheduled to meet. This is Lindsay McCarrie turning you over to the very good care of your own station announcer and saying goodbye now.