What happens
Fred Allen hosts a variety broadcast from the Town Hall, offering comedy sketches, music and a mock news bulletin. The show opens with a skit about a stolen radio, followed by a parody of city street-cleaning titles and a tongue-in-cheek sale of a Napoleonic snuff box. Later segments include a travel information bureau gag, a visit from an organ grinder and his monkey, and a barbershop-style quartet. The broadcast is part of the Fred Allen series, first aired on May 25, 1938, with Fred Allen, Portland Hoffa, Kenny Delmar and Minerva Pious among the performers.
The Town Hall, New York City, a live variety broadcast
Characters: Fred Allen, Portland Hoffa, Kenny Delmar, Minerva Pious, Peter Van Steeden, Andre Baruch, Alfred Fierrello
Listen for: The mock Town Hall News segments and the organ grinder's visit with his monkey
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.