What happens
Irma Peterson learns that she has been accepted into the New York Professional Women's Club, and her roommate Jane Stacy is jealous and dismayed. Irma wants to join too, so she sets out to win her own membership, with help from Jane and their friend Al. Irma's interview with the head of the membership committee, Mrs. Huntington, goes badly, and the girls then attend a bowling tournament. The series is My Friend Irma, and this episode was first broadcast on CBS Radio on May 17, 1948. Marie Wilson plays Irma and Cathy Lewis plays Jane, with Alan Reed as Al.
New York City, in the apartment Irma and Jane share, and at a bowling alley.
Characters: Irma Peterson, Jane Stacy, Al, Professor Kropart, Mrs. Huntington, Emma
Listen for: Irma's attempts to win over Mrs. Huntington and her unexpected success at the bowling tournament.
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.