Eileen
Broadcast: March 14, 1949
Starring:
Marvin Miller,
Alan Reed,
Gordon MacRae,
Eleanor Audley,
Clark Dennis,
Carmen Dragon,
Jerome Lawrence,
Robert E Lee,
Norman Luboff,
Cecil Kellaway,
Irene Manning,
Victor Herbert,
Samuel Lover
Added: Mar 13 2023
Today's St Patrick's Day show from The Railroad Hour is Victor Herbert's romantic Irish operetta, Eileen, a comedy based loosely on the 1835 novel Rory O'Moore written by Victor Herbert's grandfather, Samuel Lover. Set in 1798, the story concerns an Irish revolutionary arrested by the British for treason. Eileen, his nobly born sweetheart, helps him to escape by disguising him as a servant.