What happens
Fred Allen hosts his Town Hall Tonight variety program from the old Town Hall, with music by Peter Van Steeden. The show opens with a parade of guests and bits, including a bulletin about a mothball product, a street interview on Be Kind to Animals Week, and a news item about a former child star suing his mother. A Charles Atlas segment and a barbershop-style quartet number follow, and the broadcast continues with more comedy among the regulars, including Portland Hoffa and Harry. This episode is part of the Fred Allen series, aired on April 27, 1938, on CBS and NBC.
The old Town Hall, a live variety show in New York.
Characters: Fred Allen, Portland Hoffa, Harry, Peter Van Steeden, Charles Atlas, Kenny Delmar, Minerva Pious
Listen for: Fred Allen's interview with Charles Atlas, and the street-interview sketches about Be Kind to Animals Week.
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.