What happens
Kenny Deach, a restless young man in the small Michigan village of Ashbury, lives with his family and drifts through card games and bars. When Mary, a woman he once loved, returns from Chicago, old feelings and old quarrels resurface. Kenny is bitter about his prospects and about Lou Lamp, a wealthy hotel owner who has been seeing Mary. This is an episode of the Lux Radio Theatre, first broadcast on April 15, 1946, starring Alan Ladd and Evelyn Keyes. The broadcast presents the first two acts of the story, which is adapted from the screen drama Whistle Stop and its best-selling novel.
A small Michigan village called Ashbury, with its hotel, bars, depot and the annual fair.
Characters: Kenny Deach, Mary, Molly, Lou Lamp, Fran, Ernie, Josie, Gitlow
Listen for: Kenny's conversations with Mary and Lou about the past, and his growing plan to rob Lou after the Ashbury fair.
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.