A Thousand and One Nights

Ladies and gentlemen, the Railroad Hour. And here comes our summer show train. Tonight the Association of American Railroads presents a new dramatic setting for the Amorto Rimsky-Kosakov music of Scheherazade, starring Gordon MacRae and his guest charming Dorothy Warren Show.

Our choir is under the direction of Norman Luboff and our music is prepared and conducted by Carmen Dragon. Tonight the world premiere of a new musical play is brought to you transcribed by the American Railroad.

The same railroads that bring you most of the food you eat, the food 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.

Thank you, Mother Nurely, and good evening, ladies and gentlemen. Tonight you will hear the glorious music of Rimsky-Korsakov, presented for the first time as an American light opera by the masses Lawrence and Lee. I shall be caliph of Samarkan, the most exalted and imperial monarch of the plains of Central Asia, the Sultan Shariar, and Dorothy Warnshull will be Sheherazan.

And it came to pass in the thirteenth year of his reign, that the most excellent Shariar Prince of Samarkan, it proclaims throughout his dominions ye, even unto the very borders their album, a festival of 40 days and 40 nights.

I command everyone to stand to sing everywhere in all semico. Better sing for the king, we will sing for the king, we will sing for the king at the kingly command. Is not free for me such a symphony for thee to hear and the eye to see As the people can, our poor mortal men, never held in sweet memory.