Eileen

Ladies and gentlemen, the Railroad Hour. And here comes our star-studded show train. Tonight, the Association of American Railroads presents Victor Herbert's operator, Eileen, starring Cecil Callaway, Irene Manning, Clark Dennis, and your host Gordon MacRae.

Our choir is under the direction of Norman Luboff, and our music is arranged and conducted by Carmen Dragon. Yes tonight another great musical success is brought to you by the American railroads the same railroads that also 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

Gordon MacRae. Well, it's half of the evening to you ladies and gentlemen this is your host Gordon MacRae ringing up the curtain on our St. Patrick's Day offering, Victor Herbert's romantic Irish operator, Eileen. In the character of Sean and tonight's story, we have the man nominated for an Academy Award for his fine performance as the leprechaun in the luck of the Irish, Cecil Callaway.

The lovely musical comedy primadonna Irene Manning plays Eileen, Clark Dennis adds his lilting Irish jenna voice to the role of Dinnie, and yours truly plays Captain Barrio Day. And now here is Cecil Callaway and the role of Sean to tell you the story of Eileen.

The story writing begins like any odd idea of story must begin with once upon a time So once upon a time in Ireland There was a boy and there was a girl And I'm going to tell you what happened. I'm just as I saw them on the on ice Just in the days of the Irish to bear in and I would