GK: We are at the Ryman Auditorium, a gospel tabernacle of 1892, home of the Grand Ole Opry for many years but also for years the prime concert hall for Nashville, where, over the years, people came to see John McCormack (FN DANNY BOY),
Marian Anderson (SS SING: Nobody knows the trouble I've seen)
Sarah Bernhardt in "Camille"---
TR (HIGH ACTORLY): It is my destiny---- to love you.
SS (HIGH ACTORLY): My dear fellow, if I had to listen to all who love me, I should not have time to take my meals.
GK: Enrico Caruso sang here (TR TENOR ITALIAN)
Harry Houdini appeared here. (SFX. WINCH. SPLASH. BUBBLES)
GK: W.C. Fields (TR: Ah my little chickadee, it was a woman who drove me to drink and I never had the courtesy to thank her for it. No if I had my life to live over, I'd live over a saloon.)
Mae West (SS: When I'm good, I'm very good. But when I'm bad I'm better.
Isadora Duncan (RUNNING STEPS, WHEEE!!!)
Bob Hope (TR: But I want to tell you, a bank is a place that will lend you money if you can prove that you don't need it.
Harpo Marx (HORN BEEPS)
Bela Lugosi (TR: I give you life eternal. Everlasting love. The power of the storm. Walk with me to be my loving wife, forever.
Katharine Hepburn (SS: You're just a mass of prejudices, aren't you? You've so much thought and so little feeling, professor. I should think, of all people, a writer would need tolerance. --- Aren't the geraniums pretty, Professor? Isn't it a beautiful day?
GK: Louis Armstrong (TR SINGS: I see skies of blue, clouds of white.....What a wonderful world)
And Helen Hayes as Queen Victoria (SS: It's very gratifying, very, to find-after all these years-that they do appreciate all that I have tried to do for them-for their good, and for this great Country of ours. Hark! They are still cheering...Albert! Ah! If only you could have been there!