What happens
Johnny Reynolds, a young man in New York, learns that his dying father, Jonathan Reynolds, wants to meet his fiancée, Gloria. Desperate to bring someone home, Johnny hires a hat-check girl from a hotel lobby to play the role. Jonathan, delighted by the young woman, begins to recover and insists on keeping her close, while Johnny struggles to hide the deception from his family and from the girl herself. This episode of Lux Radio Theatre presents the early part of the story, with Charles Laughton, Dick Powell and Susanna Foster in the leading roles.
New York City, the Reynolds mansion on Fifth Avenue and the nearby hotel
Characters: Johnny Reynolds, Jonathan Reynolds, Gloria Pennington, Dr. Harvey, Miss Dimnoggin, Mrs. Pennington, Robert, the Bishop
Listen for: Johnny's frantic attempts to find a woman to pose as his fiancée, and his father's sudden, unexpected recovery
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.