What happens
Fred Allen hosts another Town Hall Tonight broadcast, the last show of the season, with his Allen Art Players. Between songs and amateur acts, the program offers a mock newsreel about a bank that screens new depositors with a psychologist, and a sketch about an opera troupe threatening a strike. Pop Mullen and Uncle Jim Hawkins give rival campaign speeches for mayor of Bedlamville, and a dental commentary promotes gum massage. The broadcast closes with a hillbilly comedy sketch, The Mountain Bride, in which a young mountain man named Alan prepares to marry Elvira. This 1935 episode of the Fred Allen series first aired on June 26, 1935, with Fred Allen, Portland Hoffa, Kenny Delmar and Minerva Pious in the cast.
The Town Hall, a radio variety show set in the fictional community of Bedlamville, with sketches set in a bank, a prison, an opera house and a mountain home.
Characters: Fred Allen, Portland Hoffa, Kenny Delmar, Minerva Pious, Pop Mullen, Uncle Jim Hawkins, Mrs. Pink, Swenson
Listen for: The mock newsreel sketches, the rival mayoral speeches of Pop Mullen and Uncle Jim Hawkins, and the mountain wedding sketch at the end.
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.