Actors Club at the Tavern: OTRR Duffy's Tavern Singles (January 5, 1951)

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“Actors Club at the Tavern” is an episode of OTRR Duffy's Tavern Singles, the old-time radio show, first broadcast January 5, 1951. Listen free on Stupid Potato: no sign-up, no app.

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What happens

Archie, the manager of Duffy's Tavern, decides to turn the tavern into an exclusive private club for actors, reasoning that actors are big spenders. Eddie helps him set up a game room and library while Archie hopes to recruit the actor Vincent Price as the first member. Meanwhile Duffy's pretensions and his plans for a membership committee draw more of the regulars into the scheme. This is an episode of the Duffy's Tavern radio comedy, originally broadcast on January 5, 1951, with Ed Gardner and Shirley Booth among the leads.

Duffy's Tavern, a neighborhood bar in New York City

Characters: Archie, Eddie, Duffy, Vincent Price, Finnegan, Miss Duffy, Rodney Maximilian Haybinder

Listen for: Archie's plan to turn the tavern into an actors' club and his attempts to recruit Vincent Price

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.