What happens
Jack Benny returns home late after five weeks of service camp tours and sleeps through the morning until his valet Rochester wakes him. Jack's cast, including Mary Livingstone, Phil Harris and Don Wilson, arrives for rehearsal, and the group argues over whether everyone has a split personality. Herman Peabody, an insurance salesman, visits with a strange claim, and Jack is tested at a cigar store by a clerk who keeps pressing him to choose. This is the Jack Benny radio comedy series, broadcast on May 21, 1944, on NBC and CBS Radio, with Jack Benny, Mary Livingstone, Eddie Anderson and Phil Harris in the lead roles.
Jack Benny's home and nearby streets, on a morning before a radio rehearsal, and a cigar store.
Characters: Jack Benny, Rochester, Phil Harris, Don Wilson, Mary Livingstone, Herman Peabody, Butterfly
Listen for: Jack's argument with the cigar store clerk over a quarter cigar versus a dime one, and the group's debate about split personalities.
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.