What happens
Gracie Allen and George Burns host a program honoring New Orleans, and the broadcast is loaded with comic banter. Gracie mixes up words and gets tangled in her own logic while George tries to keep the show on track. Tony Martin, who is busy filming and kissing Alice Faye on a movie set, is mentioned as a date conflict. Telegrams from listeners arrive about the city, and guests from the audience are invited to the microphone to share facts about New Orleans. The episode is from the Burns and Allen series, originally aired on December 9, 1936, on CBS and NBC Radio, with Gracie Allen and George Burns leading the cast alongside Bea Benaderet, Meredith Willson and Mel Blanc.
A radio studio broadcast honoring the city of New Orleans, with an audience present in the studio.
Characters: Gracie Allen, George Burns, Tony Martin, Ken Niles, Henry King, Bea Benaderet, Mel Blanc, Meredith Willson
Listen for: Gracie's wordplay and mixed-up logic in her exchanges with George, and the audience guests who come up to speak about New Orleans.
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.