And There I Stood With My Piccolo

Remember a hallmark card when you carry enough to send the very best Tonight from Hollywood the makers of hallmark reading cards bring you Meredith Wilson on the hallmark playhouse in his own story And their eyes stood with my pickle on Each week Hallmark will bring you Hollywood's greatest stars in outstanding stories chosen by one of the world's best known authors

They distinguish novelist mr. James Hilton Good evening ladies and gentlemen, this is James Hilton. Tonight on our Hallmark Playhouse we present as our star and author and our story is taken from his book. Now his name is Meredith Wilson, better known perhaps as a composer, songwriter, arranger, instrumentalist, conductor, actor, lyricist, drag on tour, man about town. And he has also, I understand, invented talking

people, talking people. However, in his spare tie, Meredith Wilson has managed to write a book, a book that I myself found curiously fascinating. Contrary to what you might expect, it doesn't deal wholly with music, but it's really the story of Meredith Wilson himself, and in writing it he has given us a fragment of the great story of America, a story in which

sincerity, ambition, and merit can triumph over every obstacle. Now this book is called, And there I stood with my piccolo. Metatist, there must be a reason for that. Well, Jimmy, an old Moravian flute player once told me a story that went like this.

A very important king hired a whole orchestra to play for him one night during his supper just because he felt lonesome. This orchestra played great, and the king was so delighted that before going to bed he said, Now boys, you're playing gave me the whips and jingles.