What happens
Jack Benny plans to star with Barbara Stanwyck in a rehearsal for Golden Boy on his program. Jack bets Phil Harris fifty dollars on the Rose Bowl game, and Phil lost, so Jack tries to collect the money from him, which leads to a quarrel. Jack later meets Barbara at a nightclub and invites her to rehearse at his house, where he hopes to recreate her stage role opposite him. Mary Livingstone and Rochester take part in the home rehearsal, and it does not go smoothly. This episode from the Jack Benny series aired on January 7, 1940, on NBC and CBS Radio, with Jack Benny, Mary Livingstone, Eddie Anderson and Phil Harris in the lead roles.
A radio studio, a nightclub called the Wilshire Bowl, and Jack Benny's home library
Characters: Jack Benny, Mary Livingstone, Phil Harris, Dennis Day, Don Wilson, Rochester, Barbara Stanwyck
Listen for: Jack's attempt to collect his bet from Phil, and the rehearsal scene at Jack's house
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.