What happens
Paul Dresser, a young piano player with a medicine show run by Colonel Trucky, leaves the small town of Jonesville, Illinois, for New York to make his name. He soon falls in with Sally Elliott, a stage star, after a dispute over a song he has written. Their rivalry grows as he tries to win recognition for his music. The episode is a dramatization of the film My Gal Sal, starring Mary Martin and Dick Powell, adapted for Lux Radio Theatre on January 18, 1943.
Late 1800s small-town Illinois, then New York City theatre and music-publishing circles
Characters: Paul Dresser, Sally Elliott, Colonel Trucky, Mae, Fred Hollis, John L. Sullivan, Libby Collins
Listen for: Paul Dresser's piano playing and songs, and the sharp exchanges between Paul and Sally
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.