What happens
Jane Stacey, a secretary who shares an apartment with her roommate Irma Peterson, hopes to win the favor of Richard Rhineland, a wealthy stockbroker whose socially prominent family values discretion. When a gossip column links the two of them, Richard warns Jane against any publicity. Her friend Al, hoping to help, schemes to put Jane's picture in a newspaper beauty contest, and Irma's own scheme soon complicates matters further. This episode of My Friend Irma, broadcast by CBS Radio on July 7, 1947, stars Marie Wilson as Irma and Cathy Lewis as Jane, with Alan Reed as Al and Hans Conried in the cast.
Present-day New York City, in the apartment Jane and Irma share, with later scenes at the Daily Gazette and in Atlantic City.
Characters: Jane Stacey, Irma Peterson, Richard Rhineland, Al, Professor Kropotkin
Listen for: Irma's over-the-top rendition of her thank-you speech after winning the beauty contest.
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.