What happens
Charles Girard, a successful Broadway composer, travels by train to New York and is pestered by hopeful singers and dancers. Anne Carter, a young woman from Indiana, arrives in the city to join her half brother Martin Murphy, who works as butler in Girard's Park Avenue home. Anne tries to get Girard to hear her sing, but Martin insists she must keep out of his employer's way. This Lux Radio Theatre adaptation of His Butler's Sister, a Universal film, was broadcast on February 7, 1944, starring Deanna Durbin as Anne, Pat O'Brien as Martin, and Robert Paige as Charles Girard, with Elsa Janssen as Severina.
Early 1940s; a Metropolitan Limited train from Chicago to New York, then Charles Girard's home on Park Avenue in New York City.
Characters: Anne Carter, Martin Murphy, Charles Girard, Severina, Mort Cobb, Helen
Listen for: Anne's first attempts to sing for Charles Girard, and Martin's efforts to keep her out of sight while he worries about his job.
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.