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Mademoiselle Modiste

Railroad Hour · February 27, 1950 · 29 min · 2,702 words

The transcript of “Mademoiselle Modiste”, an episode of Railroad Hour first broadcast February 27, 1950. Press a time to play from that line (a 60-second preview; Potato Plus plays it all). All Mixed Up plays Railroad Hour free, live around the clock. Search inside this transcript.

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Ladies and gentlemen, the railroad hour. And here comes the star-studded show-trades. Tonight, the Association of American Railroads presents the famous Victor Herbert operata, and was Elmo D, starring Gordon MacRaean, and his lovely guest, Jane Powell.

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 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 MacRae! Thank you, Marvin Miller, and good evening, ladies and gentlemen. In Victor Herbert's Mademoiselle Modisse, I play the part of an American student in Paris who falls in love with P.C., the charming Mademoiselle Modisse who sells women's hands.

And here is our Mademoiselle Modisse tonight is a P.T. we all take our hats off to. The lovely, stinging star of the films, Jane Powell. And history for good, of the world began at the Meijerwamada!

She was lovely, my little Mademoiselle Modisse. She worked in one of the most fashionable hatshops in parents.

And whenever I was able to take time for my studies, I used to hurry to the shop to try and get a glimpse of her. This had to be done in the greatest secrecy, because a great uncle of mine had promised my mother to keep an eye on me while I was studying in Paris.

And his idea of keeping an eye on me was to keep me away from every pretty madam as down in the city. Perhaps shop was owned by a madam as a seal. And one day when I dropped by the shop with some flowers for Phoebe, madam as a seal said to me.

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