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Desert Song

Screen Guild Theater · May 21, 1945 · 29 min · 3,132 words

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Lady Esther presents the Screen Guild Players. The Lady Esther Screen Guild Play Tonight. The Desert Song. The Starring Players.

This is Dennis Morgan. This is Brandt Ewwhite. And this is Bruce Cabot. Tonight Lady Esther presents the Screen Guild Players in Warner Brothers Desert Song, based on the immortal operata by Sigmund Romburg. It stars Bruce Cabot as Colonel Fontaine.

Dennis Morgan is Paul Hudson and Francia White does Martel. The Lady Esther screen guild players in the Desert Song. Rocco, the brooding desert, silent and mysterious beneath a timeless moon. On the crest of a sand of dew near Benur, a white robed rider rains in his horse, and for a moment stands their motionless, etched against the pale blue sky.

No sound, no movement now. Till suddenly he lifts his voice. And ageless Arab call that echoes through the centuries. It rolls across the desert sands, and then from far away comes back again. First from one shadow dune, then from another.

Until a hundred voices take it up. These are the rips, the piercest pivesmen of the desert. And as they crowd their horses about their leader, El Kubah, which way do we ride? The railroad construction camp had been new.

They hold some of our people there in chains and slavery under French God. Tonight they will be free. El Kubah is spoken. Tonight they will be free. Ohhh We need the sun for all One for one and one for all We rise or fall by the grid Praise and walk We keep on free man and safe

We're ready til we have saved That one! And the death in the desert night And the next afternoon in the town of Pucknes At Wenwas Cafe Paul Hudson who plays the piano in the orchestra And to Margo the lovely singing star of the show Oh, Oh Paul it's so hot Do you think we need rehearsal number?

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