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Lorna Doone

Railroad Hour · August 31, 1953 · 29 min · 2,621 words

The transcript of “Lorna Doone”, an episode of Railroad Hour first broadcast August 31, 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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Ladies and gentlemen, the railroad out. And here comes our star-studded show train. Tonight, the Association of American Railroads presents a musical impression of Blackmore's famous romance, Lorna Doon, starring Gordon Macray and his charming guest Dorothy Warren Show.

Our choir is under the direction of Norman Luboff, and the music is prepared and conducted by Carmen Dragon. Yes, tonight another great story with music is brought to you by the American railroads. The same railroads that bring you the food you eat, the clothes you wear, the fuel you burn, and the multitude of other things you use in your daily life.

And now here is our star, Gordon McRae. Thank you, Marlon Miller, and good evening, ladies and gentlemen. We are bound for the Moors of England, a century ago as we bring you Lorna Dune, with Dorothy The Warren Show is the lovely loner, and I shall be John Ridd, who tells the story.

You've got to understand about Glendoune. It's a valley in Devon, the fairest county of all England. Soon after you've seen it, you're lucky to find a musket ball between your eyes. But the danger there doesn't make Glendoune the less beautiful to see.

It can blend doom with its racing rills and the hills so high that they brush the sky. Do you can yon great with the leaves like lace, where a lassites are facing the moor, when the sun sinks low to your can blend doom, when the air is still in the afternoon.

As the glig at the sides too, But it's not so furthest.

This beer on the wind one morning in my 12th year, When I was suddenly called home from school, How I looked forward to seeing my father. But when I arrived home, I was greeted only by my mother's tears.

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