What happens
Captain Cappy Ricks, a San Francisco shipping magnate, celebrates his sixtieth birthday on the waterfront, where his daughter Florie wants to join his business. He refuses, and when his ship the Retriever returns under the command of mate Matt Peasley, Ricks sends a captain to remove him. Peasley young and bold, rejects the job and sets out on his own. Charles Winninger plays Cappy Ricks, with Sally Eilers as Florie and Richard Allen as Matt Peasley. The program is a Lux Radio Theatre production broadcast from Hollywood, based on Peter B. Kyne's story, and this adaptation aired on March 1, 1937.
San Francisco waterfront and shipping offices, 1930s
Characters: Cappy Ricks, Florie Ricks, Matt Peasley, Ellen Brown, Captain Peterson, Gordon, Skinner, Miss Brown
Listen for: Cappy Ricks rejects his daughter Florie's request to join the shipping business, and Matt Peasley defies Ricks by refusing command of the Retriever.
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.