What happens
Bobby Harrington, a secretary at the Mangel Importing Company in New York, is torn between two suitors when her boss must choose one of them for a two-year posting to Buenos Aires. Her sister Flurry helps Bobby devise a scheme to win over Rims O'Neill, the man Mangel selects, and their evening together on a bus and at a restaurant follows. The story is part of the Lux Radio Theatre, broadcast on October 26, 1936. Robert Taylor plays Rims O'Neill and Olivia de Havilland plays Bobby, with Mona Barry as Flurry and Fred Perry as Mr. Harrington.
New York City, 1930s, including the Mangel Importing Company offices, a Fifth Avenue bus, and the Harrington family home.
Characters: Bobby Harrington, Rims O'Neill, Flurry, Mr. Mangel, Mr. Harrington, Fred, Will
Listen for: Flurry's coaching of Bobby on what to say to Rims, and the bus ride where Rims shares his news about Buenos Aires.
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.