Holiday Inn

The Screen Guild Players. The Screen Guild Player Tonight. Holiday Inn. The Starring Players. This is Bing Crosby. And this is Dan Ishore. Tonight, Lady Ishore presents the Screen Guild Players in musical highlights from Paramount Pictures' Tuneful Film.

Holiday Inn. Starring Bing Crosby as Jim Hardy. And Dina Shore as Linda Mason. This is the story of Jim Hardy. A man with an idea.

Oh pardon me brother Bradley. A man with three ideas. Three? Yep. First one came to me when Lila Dixon and Ted Hanover and myself. We were doing a song and dance act in the New York nightclub.

I had an idea that I would marry Lila, quit show business and settle down on a farm in Connecticut. Well sounds great how the idea worked out. Didn't work. Just when I felt sorry for Ted because Lila was marrying me and we'd leave him looking for two new partners.

two new partners that gave Lila a quick fireside chat. He sold her on staying in the act with him and when I walked out to go to the farm, I walked out alone. I've had better ideas, I think. Well, tell me, Jim, what was the next idea? Holiday Inn. See, it didn't take

me too long to learn that a farm was no place for a lazy boy. So I decided to change the farmhouse into a roadside nightclub, open on holidays only, and featuring shows built around each particular holiday. I even had a show planned for Hitler's funeral. What made you think Hitler would be buried on a holiday? Oh, brother, any day he's buried

will be a holiday. I wrote special songs for all the holidays and then I began looking for some talent. I was planning to open on Christmas Eve but the game was called off on a kind of no one showing up, not even performers. Boy, I was really feeling sorry for myself on Christmas Day and then Santa Claus brought me Linda Mason.