What happens
Blossom Sealy, a rising vaudeville singer, is courted by her agent Sam Doyle and by Benny Fields, a performer she takes into her new act. Their working relationship grows tense as Blossom and Benny become closer, and Sam watches the act's direction shift. The story follows their rehearsals, their stage triumphs and the personal feelings that complicate their partnership. This dramatization is part of the Lux Radio Theatre series, first broadcast on April 27, 1953, starring Betty Hutton and Gene Barry.
Vaudeville and nightclub circuits in the United States, including San Francisco, Chicago, New York and Hoboken, around the early twentieth century
Characters: Blossom Sealy, Benny Fields, Sam Doyle, Mike Fritzel, Harry Lake, Dr. White
Listen for: The lively Gershwin number Somebody Loves Me, sung by Blossom during her rehearsal, and the tension between Blossom and Benny as they argue over the act.
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.