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Dear Yesterday

Railroad Hour · June 8, 1953 · 29 min · 2,366 words

The transcript of “Dear Yesterday”, an episode of Railroad Hour first broadcast June 8, 1953. 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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Transcribe. Ladies and gentlemen, the Railroad Hours. Right the Association of American Railroads presents the world premiere of a new musical play, Dear Yesterday.

Dara Engoden Macray and his guest star Dorothy Warren Cho. Our choir is under the direction of Norman Luboff and the music is prepared and conducted by Carmen Dragon. Yes, tonight another exciting story with music is brought to you by the American Railroad.

The same railroads that bring you the food you eat, the clothes you wear, the fuel you And the mother-tewed of other things you used in your daily life. And now here is our star, Gordon MacRae.

Thank you, Mother Mother. And good evening, ladies and gentlemen. Well, sir, our story tonight is called, Dear Yesterday. And it begins in the ear... Well, you tell me what year. As Dorothy Warren's children, I give you a few hints.

Come back, I'll get troubles from your old kid's back and fire. Or songs like this Can't even forget Like an echo from the past they all come back to us down the long long trail of the

In 1980 in our story I play a fellow named Mark Anderson and in 1918 he was just thinking of getting himself born

Dorothy Warren's shoulder is a young lady named Helen Martin. On a particular afternoon in the Indian summer of 1918, she was a member of a sewing circle in the city of Hartford, Connecticut. I think that just about finishes that pair of socks.

What's the name of the Joe Boy you're sending your socks to, Ellen? The name? Oh, no name in particular. Just any soldier happens to need a pair of socks. You mean you're not corresponding with one of our brave boys in the trenches?

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