What happens
Fred Allen and Portland Hoffa visit neighbors on the show's street to ask about swindlers targeting people's savings. Senator Claghorn recalls losing money to a phony oil man, and Titus Moody tells of pickpockets and a crap game. Mrs. Nussbaum's husband Pierre is courted by con artists after his uncle leaves him cash. Later, Fred finds Edward Everett Horton living in a cheap Bowery hotel and learns he has quit playing gentlemen, hoping to be cast as a tough guy.
Allen's Alley, a residential street, then the Bowery Plaza Hotel on the Bowery in New York.
Characters: Fred Allen, Portland Hoffa, Senator Claghorn, Titus Moody, Mrs. Nussbaum, Pierre, Edward Everett Horton, Louis the Lug
Listen for: Fred's quest for Edward Everett Horton and Horton's plan to play a tough guy in a gangster picture.
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.