What happens
Louise Gingle Busher, a waitress new to New York, works a lunch counter where George W. Prescott, a bearded and penniless lawyer, eats on credit and offers her friendly advice. Louise is pursued by a flirtatious patron, and later she is offered a chance to sing and a shot at a better life. The episode is a Lux Radio Theatre production broadcast on January 23, 1950, and its leads are not named in the material given.
New York City, in a lunch counter, a movie theater, a boarding house and a Savoy Ritz banquet room
Characters: Louise Gingle Busher, George W. Prescott, Joe Wernoski, Jay Conrad Nelson, Mr. McGill, Mrs. Douglass
Listen for: The turn when Prescott's luck changes, and how Louise's new identity and the offers made to her begin to shape the story
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.