What happens
Jack Benny is delayed on a train, so Georgie Jessel fills in as host of his Jell-O program, with Mary Livingstone, Phil Harris, Don Wilson, Eddie Anderson and Kenny Baker on hand. Jessel bargains with Benny over his fee, and the program's cast trade jokes about Benny's stinginess. Benny's Rochester recounts a trip to New York with a lost suit and a train stop in Albuquerque. The episode is from the Jack Benny series, aired on April 3, 1938 on NBC and CBS Radio. Benny and his household servants are heard in a final phone call about trouble at home.
A Jell-O radio program broadcast from a studio, with scenes aboard a train and at Jack Benny's home.
Characters: Jack Benny, Georgie Jessel, Mary Livingstone, Phil Harris, Don Wilson, Eddie Anderson, Kenny Baker
Listen for: Georgie Jessel's bargaining over his fee and the cast's teasing about Benny being tight with money.
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.