What happens
Irma Peterson, a stenographer, grows tired of her dull job and dreams of something more glamorous. Her roommate Jane Stacy worries about her as Irma's boyfriend Al Siefeld becomes her self-appointed manager. Irma takes a job with the magician Cardoni, who performs a sawing-in-half act. This is an episode of the My Friend Irma radio series, first broadcast by CBS Radio on January 5, 1948, starring Marie Wilson as Irma and Cathy Lewis as Jane.
New York City, a small apartment on West 73rd Street and the Bijou Theatre
Characters: Irma Peterson, Jane Stacy, Al Siefeld, Professor Kropotkin, Cardoni, Richard, Joe
Listen for: Irma's jokes about her shorthand and Al's plans for her stage career
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.