What happens
Jack Benny is ill and his doctor advises a week in the desert, so he arranges to rent Eddie Cantor's house in Palm Springs. Jack and Mary Livingstone meet Cantor at the Brown Derby and the arrangement is made over lunch. Once at the house, Jack discovers the caretaker is unimpressed by his name, and the rent becomes a matter of negotiation. Jack's cast of friends and assistants gathers around him as the household sorts out who pays for what. This Jack Benny episode, with Eddie Cantor as guest, aired on May 2, 1943 on NBC and CBS Radio, with Benny, Livingstone, Eddie Anderson and Phil Harris in the leading roles.
Los Angeles and Palm Springs, California, including the Brown Derby restaurant and Eddie Cantor's house in Palm Springs
Characters: Jack Benny, Mary Livingstone, Eddie Cantor, Rochester, Phil Harris, Dennis Day, Don Wilson, Sid
Listen for: The lunch at the Brown Derby where Cantor's soup is shared with Benny, and the phone call in which Cantor haggles over the rent.
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.