What happens
Lou Costello asks Bud Abbott for help finding a birthday present for Marilyn Maxwell, and Abbott suggests investing his few dollars in the stock market. Costello is introduced to Abbott's brother, a stockbroker, and the two of them become tangled in the jargon of bulls and bears. Costello's bets lead him to a fur coat for Marilyn and a series of comic misunderstandings. The episode is from the Abbott and Costello radio series, first broadcast on March 27, 1947, on NBC and ABC, with Bud Abbott and Lou Costello in the leading roles.
Hollywood, California, in the 1940s, including a brokerage office, a fur store and Marilyn Maxwell's home.
Characters: Lou Costello, Bud Abbott, Marilyn Maxwell, Mrs. Wetwash, Abbott's brother
Listen for: The bulls-and-bears explanation of the stock market, and Costello's attempt to buy a mink coat for Marilyn Maxwell.
Written from the episode itself; it never gives away the ending. Every recording is remastered for the stream: cleaned of rumble, hiss and mains hum (and the old TV whine where we found it), then levelled in two passes to steady broadcast loudness, so one show is never quieter than the next.