Love at Midnight: Love Story Magazine (April 9, 1937)

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“Love at Midnight” is an episode of Love Story Magazine, the old-time radio show, first broadcast April 9, 1937. Listen free on Stupid Potato: no sign-up, no app.

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What happens

Doris Harcourt, a New York artist model engaged to Norman Van Dyke, is surprised in her apartment at midnight by a stranger who has climbed in through the window. The man, Jim Trent, claims to be an accountant who was pressured into the intrusion. Doris is confused and distressed as the situation draws the attention of Norman and his father. The story follows the tangled relationships between Doris, Jim, and Norman, as well as the pressures behind the events of that night. This episode is from the Love Story Magazine series and aired on April 9, 1937. The lead actress is credited in the transcript only as the Love Story Girl.

New York City, Doris Harcourt's small apartment and Miles Gaffey's art studio

Characters: Doris Harcourt, Jim Trent, Norman Van Dyke, Henry Van Dyke, Miles Gaffey, Katie

Listen for: The midnight intrusion in Doris's apartment and how Jim Trent comes to work for Miles Gaffey

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.