 transcribe ladies and gentlemen the railroad out here comes our star-studded show pray the Association of American Railroads presents the famous musical hit madam sherry starring Gordon McRae and his guest star Nadine Connor 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 ladies and gentlemen well if you're in a dancing mood we think you'll enjoy tonight's show the Metropolitan's lovely Nadine Connor is our guest as the little convent girl Yvonne in our production of the famous musical hit madam sherry and with your permission I'd like to tell you how they came to be a madam sherry it's quite a story a few years ago I ran a dancing school in New York City when you enjoy dancing as much as I do and your pupils are so charming who can make money from a dancing school so thank heaven for my monthly allowance from dear uncle Theopolis did I say my pupils were charming ah yes I can see them now lined up for the morning exercise excellent excellent fine line my dear will you see if I'm doing this turn properly Mr. Sherry three more lessons and you'll make pop lover look like a telephone pole but watch your arms remember young ladies young gentlemen every movement must be graceful register another me and be shown and every love that comes with stealing or your being must be revealing all its sweetness that's it that's it you the warden cat she wore the two-step and the ragtime she found the last was for the shot and the poker swing she's made them all away aesthetic dancing is the thing that holds the flow thought and feeling by some part must be revealing in some appealing little gesture that's all it's all it's all my pupils were charming my allowance was ample and life was most pleasant there's only one catch my uncle Theopolis see the old geezer had no idea that the allowance he was sending me was being spent on furthering the development of a bevy of ballerinas I thought he'd never find out but one day while I was conducting a class my housekeeper Catherine brought me a letter from it is something wrong Mr. Sherry you look very ill well I don't feel very good Catherine what does the letter contain bad news it certainly does my uncle Theopolis and his niece of honor coming for a visit and they're arriving today well I should think you'd be very pleased Mr. Sherry well I'm not captain wait till you meet my uncle oh he's an odd one all right when I was young theopolis he's an uncle of mine with eight million a night and it's very good to me when I was a boy it was his greatest joy the piano I should play but the coin he sent I quickly spent in a very different place theopolis yes indeed I must confess he seems to guess just what I'll never need piano juice half drum or pipe I couldn't play it soon to save my life he's an odd customer I must confess he seems to guess just what I'll never if I were bald as a billiard ball he'll send me poems from now till class if you'll excuse me for a few moments I must be prepared for my uncle's arrival you just go on practicing and I'll be back presently come Catherine yes you can see the mess I mean can't you my uncle thinks this is a music conservatory that I'm a talent pianist and that I'm married and settled down he finds out I'm not any of these things I'm certain to lose my allowance my dancing school and maybe even get my head knocked off oh I hope he wouldn't go to any such lengths as that you have such a nice head how long will he be here I don't know captain he doesn't say well couldn't you pretend that you have a conservatory and and that you have a wife Catherine where do housekeepers get such deceitful devilish wonderful ideas after much persuasion Catherine agreed to assume the role of Madam Sherry while my uncle was here my uncle and his niece Avon arrived just as I finished telling my pupils there will be no more dancing lessons for a few days well Edward I must say this is quite a nice looking conservatory isn't it Oh it certainly is Uncle Theophilus I'm glad to see you so happily married and settled Edward all young people should be married and settled it's the ideal arrangement between the sexes yes Uncle Theophilus and now if your good wife would be so kind as to show me to my room I'd like to rest after dinner of course if you'll just come this way you know I've been looking forward to meeting you for such a long time Catherine do you mind if I call you Catherine Catherine why not that's my name hey shall I show you to your room of arms well I'd like to sit here for a moment if I may it was also exciting to me you see I've just finished school and I imagine New York does look exciting to a school girl especially to me I'm just a little convent girl with wide and wondering eye a little bird that left its nest and is learning how to fly yes I've been told that on a school girl to show someone about the city who had never seen it before by the third day I found that I had never seen New York myself until I saw it with her that night I took a Von and Uncle Theophilus and around to the clubs when we arrived home Uncle stopped off the bed the Von stood in the drawing room talking to me for a moment oh Edward look at the lights of New York down there how do you tell the light from the stars well maybe they tip the world upside down and we're walking on the Milky Way Edward are you really happily married hmm oh I don't know I suppose so I never thought much about it you never thought much about it oh why do you ask I don't know I just wondered I I used to keep a picture of you on my dresser at school I got it from Uncle when the girls asked me who it was I'd say that's my cousin Edward when I grew up I'm going to marry him but then you got married before I grew up I weren't married yes Edward if you weren't married I think it's time we said good night oh I'm not sleepy oh well shall we dance wonderful I'll turn on the phonograph you like the dancer though I love it dancing can mean so much who on earth is Mr. Dimple he was our dancing instructor at school dancing instructor oh Edward yes darling as long as this is only a make-believe night anyhow you suppose it would be all right if we pretended for a moment that I did grow up and marry you could we pretend that just long enough for you to kiss me good night I think perhaps it can be arranged in just a moment Adam Sherry starring Gordon Macrae and his guest star Nadine Connor Uncle Theophilus of the Vaughn paid me quite a lengthy visit as the days passed I found myself thinking more and more of the Vaughn of her eyes very specialized of her hair very special hair and especially of her smile some like a girl who is clever who plays the piano and sings some like a girl who is ever well-dressed with her jewels and regressful and slender think a queen is a loan worth a while but the girls like smile maybe a smile be a sad smile a smile that's for me be witching naughty and full of mischief smile that's for me be witching naughty in front of Uncle Theophilus I did my best to appear a devoted husband to Madam Sherry gradually the whole business began to be too much for me it's also becoming too much for Madam Sherry and too much for Evonne each time Uncle forced me to kiss Gaffin the Vaughn seemed to get terribly upset and I wasn't too crazy about it either the night before my uncle and the Vaughn were supposed to leave Ivan and Madam Sherry got into a rather intimate conversation you are a very fortunate woman Madam Sherry why do you say that how proud you must be to be his wife you mean Mr. Sherry's wife well naturally you always call him Mr. I believe you're in love with him yes madam but I shall never see him again after tomorrow then tell him but aren't you in love with him of course not then why did you agree to be his wife well the pay was good I don't think I understand my dear child I am not his wife he asked me to pretend to be his wife so that his uncle wouldn't stop his allowance you're not his wife I'm his housekeeper and I have a nice spout husband of my own and I had a hard time getting him to agree to this let me tell you oh thank you for telling me this you changed the whole world for me I'm going to find Mr. Sherry and tell him that I've told you and from then on it's up to you oh he isn't married he isn't married and I've been so every time he kissed he did Uncle Edward as soon as we finish you happily married man then you're an unhappily married man he's not married at all not married you mean that woman who lives here who calls herself madam Sherry is not exactly what we mean she just took the job for money uncle wait a minute I'll try to explain you see I I was this rather difficult to explain it I can see why it might be no it isn't Uncle Theophilus Edward wasn't married but you said he should have a wife so he pretended he had one but he really didn't oh I see in order to cheat me out of my money that's right no no no no in order to well I couldn't keep the dancing school running without any money it takes time to get enough pupils dancing school I thought this was a music conservatory it's a music conservatory of the dance that's right you've got to have music to dance to you can't dance to somebody reading the dictionary out loud anyhow when you wrote you were coming Edward had to have a wife so he asked his housekeeper if she'd pretend to be madam Sherry when you were right and you did and she did they did and that's the whole story so there isn't any madam Sherry at all no but I hope there's going to be oh after all uncle it's a situation very easily remedied if I'm something tells me I let you leave that girl's school entirely too soon could you be happy of on living with a very poor man darling I could be happy anywhere with you I won't go to the office you know I never drink but I'm getting a little high on Sherry all right all right I give up if you two are determined to get married I see no reason why I should play the heavy and have everybody hate me I'll continue both you're allowed to go to the office you're an angel I'll never be able to thank you enough for coming on this visit otherwise there might never have been madam Sherry just a moment and our thanks to Ted Osborne who was our cook the operas to Isabelle Jewel who was Catherine to our entire company madam Sherry with book and lyrics by out of Harbock and music by Carl Hoshner as dramatized for the railroad hour by Jean Holloway the railroad hour is brought to you each week at this time by the American Railroads and now here again as lovely Nadine Connors Nadine it's wonderful having you back with us in the show train oh I love these shows Gordon the fellow always chases the girl until she catches him that's right now be chasing you again on December the 17th Nadine and we're looking forward to it what's on the show train next with Gordon the opera Martha Dorothy Kirsten is going to be our guest oh it's one of my favorite up Gordon and we'll all be listening good night good night Nadine all aboard well sir looks as though we're ready to pull out so until next Monday night when Dorothy Kirsten joins us for our production of Martha this is Gordon Macrae saying good night everyone madam Sherry was presented by special arrangement with the Tams Whitmark music library Gordon Macrae can be seen in Warner Brothers on Moonlight Bay 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 keep tuned for your Monday night of music on NBC proceeding transcribe stay tuned for the telephone hour next on NBC