What happens
George Burns and Gracie Allen travel to Kansas City by train after George mistakenly receives a telegram inviting Dinah Shore to sing at the opening of the fifth War Loan drive. Gracie is eager for a second honeymoon at the hotel where they were married, and the couple struggles to get a room there. Meanwhile George prepares to perform, but learns that the invitation was not meant for him, leaving Gracie worried about how he will take the news. The episode is a 1944 installment of the Burns and Allen radio series, first broadcast on June 13, 1944 on CBS and NBC Radio, with Gracie Allen and Bea Benaderet among the cast.
A train approaching Kansas City, Missouri, then the Municipal Auditorium and a hotel in Kansas City during a war bond rally in 1944.
Characters: George Burns, Gracie Allen, Dinah Shore, Bill Goodwin, Tootsie, Betty Anne, Mr. Higgenbottom
Listen for: Gracie's worry about breaking the news to George, and his mounting excitement over singing at the rally.
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.