What happens
Fred Allen hosts Town Hall on the Fred Allen radio program, joined by Harry von Zell and the Peter Van Steeden orchestra. The show opens with a sequence of comic bits, including Town Hall News interviews with people disappointed by their Christmas gifts. Later, Allen talks with Billie Tausig about her Hollywood personal service firm, which handles tasks ranging from party planning to shopping for clients. A quartet performs a song, and the program keeps up its lively mix of sketches and commercials. The transcript covers only the first part of the broadcast.
Town Hall, a radio variety program broadcast from New York, with a Hollywood segment about a personal service firm
Characters: Fred Allen, Harry von Zell, Billie Tausig, Peter Van Steeden, Jerry Colona, Ken Derby, Mr. Twaddle, Ophelia Rinko
Listen for: The Town Hall News interviews with disgruntled Christmas recipients, and Allen's interview with Billie Tausig about her Hollywood personal service firm
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.