What happens
In London in 1820, Beau Brummell, a fashionable dandy who rules society through wit and audacity, considers a marriage for money. His servant Mortimer suggests Marianna Vincent, the daughter of a wealthy cloth merchant, and Brummell sends a formal proposal to her father. Meanwhile his young friend Reginald Courtney, who is in love with Marianna, asks Brummell for help in winning over her father. This episode of the Lux Radio Theatre, first broadcast on July 5, 1937, stars Robert Montgomery as Brummell and Madge Evans as Marianna, with Leo G. Carroll as Mortimer and Bramwell Fletcher as Reginald.
London, 1820, including Brummell's dressing room, the Vincent household and the fashionable society of the period
Characters: Beau Brummell, Mortimer, Reginald Courtney, Marianna Vincent, Mr. Vincent, Mrs. St. Orban, Kathleen, The Prince
Listen for: Brummell's proposal letter to Mr. Vincent, and Marianna's refusal to give up Reginald despite her father's wishes
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.