 Transcribed ladies and gentlemen the railroad hour and here comes our star-studded show train. The Association of American Railroads inaugurates a new fall season with the great Rogers and Hammerstein musical success State Fair starring Gordon McRae and his guests from the Metropolitan Opera Dorothy Kirsten. Our choir is under the direction of Norman Luboff and our music is prepared and conducted by Carmen Dragon. Yes tonight another thrilling musical success is brought to you by the American Railroad. 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. Well sir our show train is loaded with melody and magic by Rogers and Hammerstein. When you add some high seas by lovely Dorothy Kirsten well we think that's something to shout about. What do you say everybody? Our State Fair, don't miss it, don't even be late. It's dollars to donuts, let ours. You think I got a chance for first prize this year Abel? If I was the judge you'd get it. Abel, what's that in your pocket? Now Mo. Oh you haven't been using my best hairbrush on that hog. The blue boy is no hog he's a prize Hampshire boy and he's gonna win the blue ribbon at the State Fair. It's me. Don't you feel good child? I'm alright I guess. I don't really know what's wrong with me. I'm as restless as a willow in a wind storm. I'm as jumpy as a puppet on a straight. You got the money for a ride? Oh sure but I'm afraid of the rollercoaster. Come on we'll ride it together. Climb aboard Bobby Locke. But I don't even know your name. I'm Pat Gilbert. There, now we're old friends. But hang on. He pulled the lapel up my coat Bobby Locke. Why do you call me Bobby Locke? Because when you walk your hair bounces up and down on the back of your neck. Everybody's hair bounces up and down? Oh mine doesn't. I mean girls. You know it's a funny thing all these people around here Bobby Locke's and I can only see one girl. Now Mr. Gilbert. Oh now please you gotta call me Pat. Look I made a mistake. This isn't a good night for rollercoaster rides at all. You know what? It's a night for singing somewhere a bird who is bound to be more than the earth. I should find out. What's your name? Margie. Margie Brake. I live on a farm with my folks. How about you? Oh I'm just a reporter on the local paper but I'll be a columnist someday with my own byline. Yes siry any day now I'm expecting a call from a big paper in Chicago. That will be wonderful. I'll be right in. This where you're staying? We're sort of camping out in a trailer. See you again. Well I... Do you want to say let's break it up? Oh no. I mean do you? Oh look anytime I want to throw in the sponge you'll know it. I just won't be around. We're gonna have some high old times together Bobby Locke. How do you know? Why I could tell from the very first time I I got a look at you. I saw you standing in the sun and you were something to see and know what I like and I liked what I saw. Distance conquering devices like the telephone the telegraph and radio are in daily living. In no less degree facilities for instant communication between far distant points play a vital role in the daily work of our railroads. For railroads are not an industry surrounded by walls but a complex network of rails and facilities extending into every section of the country and manned by well over one and a quarter million employees. Knitting this far-flung system of trains terminals yards offices and shops into one smooth working hole calls for a comprehensive ever operating communication service on every railroad one of the most extensive installations of the sort in any industry. Through the use of telegraph, teletype, telephone, radio, microwave and many modern electronic marvels constantly sending and receiving directives and information railroad men are able to speed freight cars to loading docks to assemble them into trains and to clear the tracks for swift through travel in short to do more rapidly and with greater safety all the things required to give our nation an unmatched mass transportation service. Since the first telegraphic train order was transmitted a hundred years ago shortly after the invention of the telegraph the railroads have been among the first to install new and better means of communication. This process continues with quick and pace today and one of the ways is through the efforts of railroad men who are always working to devise new methods of communicating and to improve existing ones. This week members of the communication section of the Association of American Railroads men from both the United States and Canada are meeting in Quebec to exchange ideas and experiences in connection with their vital work. From sessions like this come better communications all part of the endless effort of the railroads to achieve even greater efficiency and safety in operations. We continue with the Lawrence and Lee version of Rogers and Hammerstein's State Fair starring Gordon MacRae and his charming guest Dorothy Kirsten. No funny thing happens when you meet a girl who really knocks off your feet. You can't help wondering why it is that you have spring fever. When it is intended, like a night in jail without a song to sing. Oh why should I have spring fever? Keep wishing I was somewhere else. Walking down a strange new street, hearing words that I have never heard. From a girl spitting daydream, giddy as a baby. I haven't seen a crocus on a rosebud so gay in a melancholy way that it might as well be spring fever. Max, what are you going to do when the fair is over? Oh go back home I guess and maybe get married. Well you aren't engaged are you? There's a boy I've been going with for a long time. Think you'll ever get married Pat? Well me? Sometimes I guess but you know things like this, like us. You gotta keep them from getting too serious. You're absolutely right Pat. Maybe you'll never be the love of my life. Maybe I'm not the girl of your dream. But isn't it kind of fun to look in each other's eyes, swapping romantic dreams. But isn't it kind of fun, browsing around the town, dancing the nights. Barney custom. Isn't it kind of fun making vows. Getting across the table for two. And you got a hunch that this is the real Mac. Time for jetting your father's hog. And Maz meant me, come on Pat. We've got to get over there to the judging stand. Come on Blue Boy, get up. Love's sick, that's his trouble. Blue Boy got mighty sweet on his sour and the pin next to his. Now she ain't around and he's carrying the torch. Here come the judges. You've got to do something Paul. Hey, hey Blue Boy, look, there's your lady friend. That's the spirit Blue Boy. Look proud, no hold on four feet can beat you now. Blue Boy walking off with all those blue ribbons. My cooking has to get at least an honorable mention. We know you're the best cook in the world Ma, even if those old judges don't. Come on Able, let's go. Wait a minute Melissa. Don't go yet Ma. The judges vote unanimously to give that award to a lady who has concocted the most delicious mince meat. Mince meat. Ever entered in a state fair. Mrs. Melissa Frank. It's enough for me that my family likes my cooking. But if it's the best in Iowa. Well you'd better tip your hat to the state you live in, that's what. See you tonight Bobby Locks. If you want to. I'll meet you by the Calliope in front of the roller coaster. Eight o'clock. I'll be there. I'm here by the roller coaster. Well everybody's going home now baby. The fair is over. He must have just forgotten. Yes, I guess that's it Paul. That must have been what had happened. Look Bobby Locks, anytime I want to throw in the sponge you'll know it. I just won't be around. It's a matter with that girl Able. She hasn't been the same since we came back from the fair. Ma, I got a feeling that Margie's suffering from the same ailment blue boy had. Paul, do you think that young reporter fell in love? Hogs are people. The love bug bites them all sooner or later. There goes the telephone. Oh Margie. Thanks residents. Margie, is that you? You've got to forgive me Bobby Locks. I got that Chicago job. Is that where you're calling for? We're here in town. I came to ask if you'd marry me. You have to believe it. Just say you love me. I'll be pulling in your driveway in three minutes. Just a moment. Our thanks to Paula Winslow, Griff Barnett, Jerry Hausner, Carlton Young and our entire company. State Fair by Rogers and Hammerstein was dramatized for the railroad hour by Lawrence and Lee. And presented by special arrangement with 20th Century Fox, producers of the Technicolor production Golden Girl. Starring Mitzi Gaynor, Dale Robertson and Dennis Day. The railroad hour is brought to you each week at this time by the American railroads. You know, there's a lot of talk about high prices at my house these days. And friends sometimes ask me if railroad freight rates play an important part. And now that's one question I know something about and I can tell you this. Railroad freight rates are the caboose on the train of rising prices. The tag end that's inevitably pulled along by the rest of the train. As a well-known business publication said recently, don't blame the cost of carrying freight for boosting prices. It just isn't so. It's just wonderful being back aboard the show train, Gordon. Well, Dorothy, we're certainly glad to have you out here in the West Coast with the San Francisco Opera. And here's an engraved invitation to be with us for six weeks in the months of October and November. For such wonderful shows as the opera Martha, Cold Portis Jubilee, Rudolph Rimmel's Rosemary, the lovely opera Bohemian Girl, plus Holiday Inn, and Madam and Girl Mordise. Invitation accepted, Gordon. They sound like exciting shows. Well, we learned something from that champ Blue Boy, Dorothy. While you're starring with the San Francisco Opera, we're gonna hog you. Gordon, you say the most wonderful things. What's on the show train next week? The lovely opera of Madam Sherry, Dorothy, and the lovely Nadine Conner will be our guest. We'll all be listening. And Dorothy will see you two weeks from tonight. It's a date, Blue Boy. Thank you. All aboard? Well, it looks as though we're ready to pull out. And so until next Monday night, this is Gordon McRae saying goodbye. It 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 Railroad. Now stay tuned for your Monday night of music on NBC. The preceding was transcribed. It's the telephone hour next with...