What happens
Porter Hollingsway, the boss of a department store in a small river town, takes shop girl Laura Mae Finney out to dinner and makes a business proposal. The story then follows three friends, Debbie, Rita and Laura Mae, on an excursion boat, where they receive a letter from Addie Ross announcing she is leaving town. Each of the three wonders about her own marriage. The broadcast is a Camel Screen Guild Theater adaptation of the 1949 film A Letter to Three Wives, starring Paul Douglas and Linda Darnell, and it was first heard on November 3, 1949.
A small river town, including an excursion boat on the river and a store where Porter Hollingsway is a manager.
Characters: Porter Hollingsway, Laura Mae Finney, Debbie, Rita, Addie Ross, Brad, George
Listen for: The letter from Addie Ross read aloud on the excursion boat, and Porter Hollingsway's dinner conversation with Laura Mae Finney.
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.