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Review of 1934

Railroad Hour · 1934 · 29 min · 1,860 words

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Ladies and gentlemen, the Railroad Hour. And here comes the Summer Show Train. The Association of 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.

Brings you the Railroad Summer Show Train, starring Gordon Macrae, and featuring Lucille Norman with the music of Carmen Dragon and the orchestra, stripped by Gene Holloway, and the choir under the direction of Norman Lubaud.

And now here is our star, Gordon MacRae. Thank you, Marvin Miller, and good evening, ladies and gentlemen. Tonight we're going to ride the summer show train back through time and memory to another year that you lived yesterday.

Tonight's destination, 1934. I'm the stars of tonight. I don't go with this price, cause I only have one. Yes, you were singing I Only Have Eyes For You Back in 1934, and maybe you thought of Ruby Keeler as you sang it.

Or maybe you thought of Dick Powell. And in 1934 you first saw Claude at Colbert and Clark Gable, and it happened one night. And those were the days when Ethel Merman, William Gaxon and Victor Moore opened on Broadway and anything goes and sang the wonderful Cole Porter song.

In all the days a glimpse of stocking was looked on as something is shocking. Now heaven knows anything goes. Good authors too, who once knew better words. Now only use ordinary words writing prose. Why anything goes?

The world has gone mad today and good's bad today. And blacks white today and days night today. Most guys today that women prize today are just to leave the gallows So though I'm not a great romancer I know that you're bound to answer When I propose or anything goes In olden days and glings and knocking was looked at and something's shocking I'll have a no

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