What happens
Gildersleeve, the Commissioner of Public Works in Summerfield, walks his neighbor Mrs. Ransom home after a movie evening and agrees to pick her up for work the next morning. At home, his niece Marjorie is troubled and insists she is clumsy and unwanted. Her uncle tries to reassure her and encourages her to think of ballet as a future. Marjorie begins practicing ballet at home with a phonograph, while her nephew Leroy plays with a toy rifle. Gildersleeve later discusses Marjorie's dancing with Judge Hooker and Peavey, who express doubts about a career in ballet.
Summerfield, the Gildersleeve household and neighborhood, in the fall of 1945
Characters: Gildersleeve, Marjorie, Mrs. Ransom, Leroy, Birdie, Judge Hooker, Peavey, Uncle Mort
Listen for: Marjorie's conversation with her uncle about being clumsy, and the later talk among Gildersleeve, Judge Hooker and Peavey about her ballet career
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.