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Speaker 1 (00:14):
Run the blue of the night.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
Meets the goal.
Speaker 3 (00:22):
Of the day.
Speaker 1 (00:26):
Someone wait for.
Speaker 4 (00:30):
Me.
Speaker 5 (00:39):
That's the time talking here, wanting you to go away
your time. But there's some time driving Hollywood with John
stats Totter and the darkstair, the rh the.
Speaker 6 (00:45):
Mayors and things.
Speaker 1 (00:46):
Guess Frankie Lane.
Speaker 5 (00:48):
Now, at this Thanksgiving, with all of America eating and
wasting less food, our Thanksgiving tables will not be groaning
with delicacies. However, at this time we bring you a man.
Speaker 1 (00:56):
Who groans all year long.
Speaker 5 (00:58):
Thank Crusby.
Speaker 1 (00:58):
Thank here. If you link ah your half of the microphones,
the rhythmors, I'll say mine. With John spat in the orchestra,
we shall all dance nimbly around the old chaperone.
Speaker 5 (01:12):
Yeah, Vray, Lamilra, you come Fuddia.
Speaker 1 (01:16):
It's basic or not. Julio is phenomena Pa Boo coo
cook book book? Who is with her? La Duenna the chaperone, the.
Speaker 6 (01:25):
Cook You can't do anything with a chaperone.
Speaker 1 (01:28):
Marlow, Marlow boy Marlow, a handsome young man met a
pretty young maid a don domno Barcelona. Addon do means walking,
and that's all they did cause she had an old chaperone.
Speaker 2 (01:43):
The phone she had an old.
Speaker 1 (01:45):
Chaperone, Maria the girl, or that state thro the boys.
We can ride there in the kaji Kazi means street,
and no one can make love in the street with
an old chaperon the cone. No, not with an old chaperone.
Speaker 6 (02:02):
The chaparon.
Speaker 2 (02:09):
He may have been, asked Maria, but the Pedro, she
was a big pain to.
Speaker 1 (02:15):
Pedro just smiled at Maria the maid. It's the enters Bay, sparkling.
John the ententest means peton. That's just where he'd like
to have kicked. The old chaparon, the crone, the barther,
some old chaperon, dear, if we were alone, asked for
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your mono and marriage, and that's just what he got
across the chap from the old caparon.
Speaker 7 (02:48):
Caparone.
Speaker 1 (02:50):
Why don't you go away, said the old chaperone. You're
blubbering like a paloona, And that's just what he gave her.
Speaker 8 (03:00):
And then he cried in an anguish.
Speaker 1 (03:03):
I hate you, your chaperon, edel.
Speaker 8 (03:06):
And then came the day.
Speaker 1 (03:13):
It sounded like they said fiesta so and he just
stayed home and snore, and he was dreaming.
Speaker 8 (03:21):
A lot of the baby.
Speaker 1 (03:22):
They danced and sang in the plaza, now plasming square,
but nobody there was a square as the old chaperon
or she left the two lovers alone. They respectfully thanks
the old chrome, they said, glassy old chaperon by chapparone. Hey, Julio,
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now I got the big news for you. Now we
are married.
Speaker 6 (03:51):
When wall but tell you what happened to your chaperone her?
Speaker 1 (03:55):
Now she's a baby sitter. Those faces per day time
in the Sino carpano.
Speaker 5 (04:17):
No, it's not a belito, it's not a Hey.
Speaker 1 (04:20):
You kick this stuff around pretty good. Why don't you
fling your commercial atom in Spanish?
Speaker 8 (04:24):
Oh, I couldn't do that, but you.
Speaker 1 (04:27):
Might sell a lot of philcos in the Spanish speaking
parts of the world Mexico, Spain. Nothing in New Jersey
hurt tamboy anyway, Why.
Speaker 5 (04:33):
Know them on a Spanish for that English?
Speaker 1 (04:35):
Sure, you could just say that is in people. I'm
not talking to my cambrero when I tell you that
a nice feel coat would bring you many buenos notches.
Speaker 8 (04:42):
It looks like.
Speaker 5 (04:43):
Looks like well being.
Speaker 2 (04:45):
That's very good.
Speaker 5 (04:45):
But I think for our English speaking audience we should
be more explicit.
Speaker 1 (04:49):
Okay, I talk with your friends, go ahead and explicit
no thank you.
Speaker 9 (04:52):
Then across b we'll say as any lies you like.
Speaker 5 (04:55):
You get the most for your radio money when you
say Philco. Take Coco's new table model automatics give you
more than just the warmed over version of the same
old radio and record changer. Their designer is new. They're
new all the way through, with more power and finer
performance than any table radio photograph you ever listened to.
No shortcuts, no shoddy workmanship, but quality construction from the
circuit clear due to the cabinet. Compare these new focos
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for tone, and your own air will tell you more
than a book full of bromides. Compare them for price,
and you'll appreciate the value made possible by the resources
of the world's largest radio manufacturer, Philco, famous for quality
the world over.
Speaker 1 (05:31):
If I've never heard you better, thank you for blam
so unctious. Let's give him a handful. Now, let us
tend our attention to Philcos. This guest of the evening
flashy young fella who's zoomed to a prominent position in
the category index, says.
Speaker 8 (05:48):
Vocalist Comma Popular.
Speaker 1 (05:50):
The lad who's factoring the folks in Philadelphia Presno with
his snazzy singing stylish Frankie Lane, Frankie, two paces forward,
take a deep bend from the midriff, Franky, come on
right in now the left? Hi you bane Gosh. Ever
since I can remember, I wanted to be on your program,
and now that I'm here, I wish I was dead. Frankie,
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I understand it's just a matter of VASI until the
open of the New York Paramount. You know, Frankie, That's
where I got my first big shot, the good old
Paramount Theater at fourteenth and Broadways. The being the Paramount
Theater is at forty third in Broadway, right on Times Square.
Speaker 6 (06:29):
Oh that's right.
Speaker 1 (06:30):
They build a new one, a new one. Yes, when
I played the Paramount, it was at fourteenth Street. The
Indians were still holding Times Square. But I certainly want
to tell you, Frankie, in all sincerity, I like that style,
that bouncy style you got. If you'd like to sing
that tune that to help to bring you so much
national recognition, we'd certainly like to hear.
Speaker 8 (06:51):
That's that's my desire. Would you like to knock that?
Speaker 1 (07:00):
Look? We got a wonderful little blue here all set,
Come on, let's have it. John'scott a little eight beats
background for frank.
Speaker 6 (07:17):
Two thing one night review in our road, ran blue.
Speaker 2 (07:30):
And raise re you. That's my deal.
Speaker 6 (07:43):
To need where you.
Speaker 2 (07:47):
Please, Jon.
Speaker 1 (07:52):
Sning Caffie.
Speaker 2 (07:56):
And then bre.
Speaker 1 (08:00):
This that's my designs.
Speaker 2 (08:09):
We see for little glass of wine. Dial games into
your divice. I'll see you.
Speaker 4 (08:25):
Don't shove your lin.
Speaker 2 (08:29):
Rey know mine? He with the load. Just wait, it's
time to go, Shay. I love you. So you're my design.
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You're my design.
Speaker 1 (09:25):
How many judge Frankie, You're here to stay for a
long long time. You know, folks, Thanksgiving Days are purely
American holidays. Yet somehow we sometimes fail to appreciate all
the things that we collectively have to be thankful for. Today,
especially in the wake of a war with demagogues and
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bigots attempting to set one group of Americans against another,
it seems more vital than ever to me that we
pause to consider the ideas and the ideals from which
our nation is from. A few weeks ago, in our
nation's capital, most precious documents belonging to the people of
the United States were removed from the archives and placed
aboard the Freedom Train this week, the Freedom Trainer is
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in Baltimore, Washington and Charlottesville, Virginia. I'm going to hit
your hometown. You ought to go down to the station
and get aboard. Look at those words of liberty, those
documents of justice, those papers that guarantee equality for all Americans.
It will reminds you that we as Americans have much
to be thankful for, not only today, but as long
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as we are free men believing this, if we'd like
to bring you tonight the story of a man who
turned his back on his heritage.
Speaker 2 (10:48):
Order in the court order in the court.
Speaker 8 (10:51):
The attorney for the state would kind of continue, mister.
Speaker 10 (10:54):
Noland, Is it not true that you are part of
the conspiracy to destroy the government of the United States.
Speaker 4 (10:59):
That is not true.
Speaker 8 (11:00):
That is not true, I tell you.
Speaker 10 (11:01):
Do you dare to deny your friendship with Aaron Burr. No,
I don't deny that, but I do deny your accuvation the.
Speaker 1 (11:06):
Trees, Lieutenant Nolan.
Speaker 10 (11:07):
Aaron Burr shown himself repeatedly to be an enemy of
the United States government as an American officer, your country's
enemies are your enemies. By your association with Aaron Burr,
you'll betrayed the uniform you wear, the flague you follow,
the country you protest the pr that is true, is
it not, Lieutenant Nolan?
Speaker 2 (11:25):
No, if not true, it's not true.
Speaker 1 (11:27):
Do you still dare to defend your association with Aaron Burr?
I don't think it needs defending. I only talk to them.
You don't think it needs defense.
Speaker 8 (11:36):
You need to say no more, Lieutenant Noman.
Speaker 1 (11:39):
I rest my case, your honest.
Speaker 8 (11:50):
Nolan, rise and teach the course with Nolan.
Speaker 10 (11:54):
Is there anything you wish to say to show that
you have always been faithful to the United States?
Speaker 1 (11:58):
Say?
Speaker 2 (11:59):
United States?
Speaker 1 (12:00):
Damn the United States? I work.
Speaker 3 (12:02):
I may never hear of the United States again.
Speaker 1 (12:07):
Who was that man who would dare utter such treason?
Come over closer to the radio America. I want to
tell you a story about you.
Speaker 8 (12:15):
And you're growing.
Speaker 1 (12:17):
This is not a story of a national hero, but
of Philip Nolan, who severed a bond before he knew
its value. Listen to the story of the man without
a country. Think back way back to the eighteen hundred.
Remember you were still an adolescent. Then you're proud of
being a nation of seventeen states. You were beginning to
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speak grandly of adding Michigan, Indiana and Mississippian becoming twenties.
Zealous old Tom Jefferson was in the White House. Down
in the South was a man.
Speaker 8 (12:49):
Named Aaron Bird.
Speaker 1 (12:52):
And a man named Philip Nolan. They say now now
that history assisted the facts raid the evidence. They say
Philip Nolan was as fine as any officer in the
Western Division. Oh, he was a little more hot headed
than some, a little swift at the hanger than others,
and a little too quick sometimes about getting his two
sense of opinion in. But he was not alone in this.
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There were many dashing young gallants like him, and was
ready to die for a kiss of the flag. And
Philip Nolan might have gone to his final sleep among
the vine covered homes of the Dead and Orleans as
quietly as any of them, had a star not crossed
his path one night. Mister Nowlan, I am Aaron Burr.
I am told you are a young man of remarkable promise.
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I should like to talk with you about your future.
Speaker 8 (13:41):
Why, thank you, sir, I don't know what to say.
Thank you very much.
Speaker 1 (13:47):
Star comes that way sometimes, sudden, blinding, dazzling. Aaron Burr
came as a disguised conqueror. Rumor had it that it
was an army behind him, and an empire before but
that first day in Orleans. So Philip Nolan wouldn't have
known it for a long time. Yet he became the
man without a country. There was only a step from
Aaron Burr's side to a trial for treason the United
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States Press. Philip Nolan, he would bewildered, deeply hurt, embittered.
Above all else, he was young. An older man would
have checked his anger. A trader would have been wise
enough to hide his feelings. But Philip Nolan was neither
a wise man nor a trader.
Speaker 7 (14:28):
A moment's silence, and then those words.
Speaker 8 (14:31):
I could echo forever through his life. I wish I
may never hear of the United States again. I wish
I may never hear of the United States again.
Speaker 1 (14:39):
I wish I may never hear of the United I.
Speaker 7 (14:42):
Wish the words filled the courtroom shivered against the walls.
Speaker 1 (14:55):
No one spoke, No words failed to combat those other
words have to The officers in the room had served
to the revolution. They had fought their way, starved and
frozen through endless, bitter months, so that one day of
people could say this is my country. The judge in
the jury rose. They left the court wordlessly. No one
else stirred.
Speaker 8 (15:14):
Someone in the back of the room sied, someone else coughed.
Speaker 1 (15:21):
Fifteen minutes went by like fifteen years before the judge
returned prisoner.
Speaker 8 (15:27):
Here the sentence at the court.
Speaker 9 (15:29):
The court decided, subject to the approval of the President,
that you shall have your wish.
Speaker 1 (15:35):
You will never hear the name of the United States again.
It was the fall of eighteen o seven. It would
be eighteen sixty three before he heard.
Speaker 7 (15:44):
Her name again.
Speaker 1 (15:47):
Believes that go red in Maryland. Soon they would be
piled along the Potomac for burning. Their smoke would spiral
into lace against the November skies. They would be tapping
the trees for maple sugar in the Verma woods, and
the New England housewives would gather in their spiced kitchens
to prepare the Thanksgiving pudding. The cape cod fishermen would
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go out in the misty dawn for their nets, and
the harvests would be a bright promise. On the Indiana hillside,
the Blue Ridge and the Alleghenies and the Rockies would
pull the snow up over their shoulders and settle down
for the winter, and the Mississippi would go slipping on
through the heart of America.
Speaker 7 (16:26):
There would be hearth fires and Christmas trees, there.
Speaker 1 (16:28):
Would be dancers, There would be church service and wedding ceremonial,
and that sismal, But not for Philip Nolan. His was
the sea and the bitterness of salt on his lips.
No port at evenings, and in one sudden heart stabbing moment,
Philip Nolan knew what he had lost.
Speaker 9 (16:47):
Huh, you will receive from Lieutenant Neil, the person of
Philip Nolan, Lady Lieutenant of the United States Army. You'll
take the prison on board your ship and keep him
there with such precautions as shall prevent his escape. You
will provide him with such quarters, rations and clothing as
would be proper for an officer of his late rank.
But under no circumstances is the epithet hear of his country,
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or to see any information regarding it.
Speaker 1 (17:13):
So Philip Nolan walked the decks of the Seven Seas
and thought about America, but he never asked about her.
He talked with his shipmates about the weather, about the sea,
about all things, but homes in foreign.
Speaker 7 (17:26):
Parts, where he was very permitted to go ashore.
Speaker 1 (17:29):
He filled his days with reading, but in the books
and papers given him there was no mention of America.
For him, she was only a dream that had ceased existing.
He was a ghost among his companions, visting from ports
to fort blstening to a word that filled his heart
had reached him in the wind aside from the rigging,
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but the waves whispered through the midnight, one word America.
Speaker 8 (17:57):
The grassest flu in Kentucky this spring. Wouldn't you like
to ride through it? With the earth hard, firm under
your horses seat, Think of it birth under you. The
fas not on the streets, all in the snow. It's
almost time for the mono claw.
Speaker 1 (18:15):
Remember the girl you've kissed at the money clow.
Speaker 8 (18:18):
The fields are white with got mouth.
Speaker 7 (18:19):
The slaves are singing.
Speaker 8 (18:21):
Why would you get to hear their voices? Snow is
speaking right in New England.
Speaker 5 (18:25):
They're riding through it to the Christmas County.
Speaker 8 (18:28):
Have to hear the sleigh Hills? How long is it
since you heard the sleigh Hills?
Speaker 6 (18:33):
And email?
Speaker 7 (18:34):
I can't stand thinking anymore.
Speaker 8 (18:37):
God let me God remembering. I wish I may never
hear of the United States again. I wish I may
never hear of the United States again. The God desired
the subject to the approval of the President, that you
shall have your way.
Speaker 1 (18:51):
No, no, Philip Nolan could never find peace. Ships that
sail men went home on leaves he watched in wordless agony.
He thought of candle light on warm, gracious tables, of
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gardens where a man could crumble the rich soil in
his fingers, of linen slipping on clothes lines, and friendly
smells of kitchens. He thought of moonlight on hair that
was softest silk to the touch of eyes, liquid in
the starlight of lips, Velvet smooth and light for kissing.
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He thought of arms opened wide to gather in the
returning sailor, and one special voice that would say welcome home.
He thought of perfume and music and the rustle of silk.
He was young, and there was a fierce hunger in him.
Then one night in the Mediterranean, some ladies were invited
aboard for a ship's ball. All that was young in
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Philip Nolan died that night. He stood on deck looking
at the girl he had love with a life time ago.
Speaker 3 (20:14):
I Stillip Norlan, it is surprising you're looking to lend
it from to see evidencely agreed with you.
Speaker 8 (20:24):
I've forgotten how lovely you are.
Speaker 3 (20:27):
You must have forgotten many things.
Speaker 1 (20:29):
It's almost impossible to believe finding you again.
Speaker 3 (20:34):
I'm on my way home. I've been visiting him son.
Speaker 8 (20:37):
I tried to see you before I left. They wouldn't
let me see anyone. I understand.
Speaker 3 (20:42):
I was very busy at the time. Anyhow, I was
married soon after you left married. Yes, of course, haven't
you heard I have a little boy.
Speaker 8 (20:53):
Now a little boy. You must be very happy. I
am suck so strange that we should meet again the
way out here.
Speaker 3 (21:04):
I'm a little sorry we didn't. I had forgotten you.
It is better that way.
Speaker 8 (21:12):
I love you very much. I loved you, and I
lost you and everything else I loved in one mad moment.
Speaker 1 (21:22):
Oh my dear, I think we should set back to
the dancers.
Speaker 8 (21:29):
Yes, of course, Then would you tell me just one thing?
Oh what do you hear from home.
Speaker 3 (21:38):
Home? Mister Nolan? I thought you were the man who
never wanted to hear of home again.
Speaker 8 (21:49):
Thank mag your pardon, good night, and.
Speaker 1 (21:58):
The if Nolan knew in that moment how alone he was,
one man with only the sea for the rest of
his life, and one nameless court at the end of it.
The days became weeks, the weeks years that marched across
his forehead and left him old. His eyes were deep
pools of loneliness, his heart completely empty. No one knew
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until the day he was dying how deep his heart
had gone. No one knew until that day when they
entered his room for the first time, and they found
it a shrine to America. The stars and stripes were
draped around a picture of Washington, and he had painted
a majestic eagle wrigging gloriously up into the sky. The
foot of his bed was a great map of the
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United States, drawn from memory, with almost forgotten names on it.
The Indian Territory, in the Mississippi Territory.
Speaker 8 (22:50):
Here, Captain, do you see I held the country? Yes,
I see, Laurence. How do you feel anything I can
do for you? Tattoos? I'm dying. I'd never seen my
country again. But there's not a man on this ship
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or in all the United States. It loves her right?
Who would you? Who would you tell me about American?
Tell you about America? How can I begin to tell
you about America?
Speaker 1 (23:29):
He had lessed America in eighteen oh seven of eighteen
sixty three. War had come and gone in eighteen twelve,
and Francis Scott Key had sat on a British battleship
written the national anthem. Jackson had taken the Florida territories.
The new flag had been raised in Washington with thirteen
dollarnate stripes and twenty stars. Nine presidents had been in
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the White House, and the Monroe Doctrine had been born,
the cornerstone of American foreign policy. The continents of.
Speaker 11 (23:56):
The Western Hemisphere are hamfort not to be considered as
subject for future colonization by any of the European powers.
Speaker 1 (24:04):
The United States had begun to gather themselves into a nation.
Speaker 11 (24:07):
It is not the state, but the people of the
nation who have made the union. It is the the
people's Constitution, the people's government made for the people, answerable
to the people.
Speaker 1 (24:20):
Tell him about America. Tell him about Peter Cooper's steam
locomotive to Tom Thumb, drawing its first train of cars
over twenty three miles of the bean O rail Road.
Tell him about America. Andrew Jackson had moved the Indians
west of the Mississippi Arkansas, Michigan, Wisconsin, Iowa had joined
the nation. The Battle of the Alamo had been fought
in Texas, gold discovered in California, and the new nation
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had spanned two oceans. The South and the North would
deepen their quarrel over slavery. And then the White House
was the President's words for the voice of the new nation,
measure of the.
Speaker 4 (24:52):
Devotion, that we here resolved that these dead shall not
have died in vain, that this nation and the God
shall have a new birth of freedom, and that government
of the people, by the people, for the people shall
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not perish.
Speaker 1 (25:15):
From the earth. Tell him about America, the power, the color,
the strength, the beauty, the tears, the triumphs. Tell him
so that he knows the glory he thrust aside.
Speaker 8 (25:27):
She is a great nations, captain, great, yes, Nolan, a great.
Speaker 1 (25:35):
Nation, No Nolan. And so his last thought was of
his country. Before they lowered him into the sea, they
draped the flag of the United States over his coffin.
How proud that would have made him. The captain intoned
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the last writes the bugrip i tap.
Speaker 7 (26:01):
The ceremony was over, and.
Speaker 1 (26:05):
We found this paper and Nolan's things bury me in
the sea.
Speaker 8 (26:08):
It has been my home, and I love it.
Speaker 1 (26:11):
But will someone not set up a stone for my
memory at Fort Adams or at Orions, so that my
disgrace will not follow me for eternity? Say on it
in memory of Philip Nolan, Lieutenant in the Army of
the United States. He loved his country as no other man.
Speaker 8 (26:28):
Has ever loved her, but no man deserved less. At
her hand, we will do as he wished.
Speaker 1 (26:38):
And so although the sea claimed him, his soul would
know the feeling of land again. The flowers would be
near him in the trees and the earth of America.
He would know the seasons in the costing life of
the nation. There would be a flag over him, and
the knowledge of belongings. And thus the man without a
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country came home to America.
Speaker 5 (27:29):
Don't the reminder that every American has plenty to be
thankful for to Co Corporation, It's distributors and dealers everywhere, John,
and wishing you a happy Thanksgiving and invite you to
tune in next week when things.
Speaker 9 (27:40):
Guests will be al Jolson.
Speaker 5 (27:43):
The poetic narrative, based on the story by Edward Everett Hale,
was written by Gene Holloway and directed by Robert L.
Speaker 8 (27:48):
Welch.
Speaker 5 (27:48):
A musical score was composed by Victor Young and conducted
by John Scott Trotter. This program was produced and transcribed
in Hollywood by Bill Morrow and Murdo Mackenzie