What happens
Apple Annie, a street vendor on Broadway, has long written letters to her daughter Louise, who lives in Spain, claiming she is a society woman. When Louise announces she is coming to New York to meet her mother and her fiance, Count Carlos Romero, Annie's friend Dave the Dude and his gambling associates decide to stage a convincing show. They install Annie in a borrowed suite at the Hotel Marbury as Mrs. E. Worthington Manville, and they recruit a gentleman named Judge Henry Blake to play her husband. This Lux Radio Theatre adaptation of Damon Runyon's story aired on May 1, 1939, with May Robeson, Warren William, Jean Parker and Guy Kibbee in the leading roles.
Broadway and the Hotel Marbury in New York City
Characters: Apple Annie, Dave the Dude, Judge Henry Blake, Louise, Count Carlos Romero, Happy, Shakespeare, Oscar
Listen for: Dave the Dude's plan to convince Louise that Annie is a society lady, and how the gang prepares the suite and the new husband for her daughter's arrival
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.