What happens
Duffy's Tavern is visited by guest Charles Coburn, an actor of fifty years' experience, whom Archie and Ed Gardner's Duffy are keen to meet. Charlie Cantor's Finnegan and the regulars are soon busy with card games and gossip. Duffy suggests hiring Coburn as a front man for the tavern, and Eddie plans to test his character with a poker game. The episode is from Duffy's Tavern, a comedy series first broadcast on 1943-11-02 on CBS, NBC Blue and NBC, starring Ed Gardner, Shirley Booth, Charlie Cantor and Florence Halop.
Duffy's Tavern, a New York bar
Characters: Archie, Duffy, Eddie, Charles Coburn, Miss Duffy, Finnegan, Vera, Johnny
Listen for: Charles Coburn's pitch to become a front man for the tavern, and the poker game in which Eddie tests his character.
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.