What happens
Lux Radio Theatre presents The Devil and Miss Jones, broadcast on March 12, 1945, starring Frank Morgan, Linda Darnell and Gordon Oliver. JP Merrick, one of the richest men in the world, learns that his effigy has been hanged outside his department store on 38th Street. Alarmed, he hires a detective, Thomas Higgins, to find the troublemakers. Merrick decides to go undercover himself, taking a job as a salesman in the shoe department under the name Thomas Higgins. There he meets Miss Jones, a sales clerk who takes an interest in the struggling new employee, and he soon finds himself drawn into the workers' cause. The story follows his efforts to fit in among the staff.
A department store on 38th Street in New York, in the early 1930s, and Merrick's home.
Characters: JP Merrick, Thomas Higgins, Mary Jones, Joe O'Brien, Mr. Hooper, George, Mr. Allison
Listen for: Merrick's growing sympathy for the store employees as he works undercover among them, and his clashes with Mr. Hooper in the shoe department.
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.