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The Railroad Hour

Review of 1952

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A year-end musical retrospective drawn from Railroad Hour broadcasts of 1952. Gordon MacRae and Dorothy Warenskjold revisit productions and composers featured during the season, including 'Kiss Me, Kate,' 'The Desert Song,' music by Rudolf Friml and songs from 'The Cat and the Fiddle,' before closing with a New Year's prayer and a look toward 1953.

This The Railroad Hour broadcast aired on December 29, 1952. It is listed as episode 222 in the archive. NBC Radio Network carried the broadcast. The cast includes Gordon MacRae, Dorothy Warenskjold, and Norman Luboff. Other credited names include Jerome Lawrence as writer, Robert E. Lee as writer, Gordon MacRae as host, and Marvin Miller as announcer.

The surviving recording runs about 30 minutes. The broadcast is also associated with Association of American Railroads.

Weekly musical-drama anthology sponsored by the Association of American Railroads, starring Gordon MacRae in condensed operettas, Broadway musicals and original musical stories.

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