What happens
Stephen Gay, a successful New York playwright at fifty-one, discharges his young secretary Linda Brown after she confesses her love for him. Their parting turns emotional, and Linda leaves his apartment heartbroken. Stephen then casts her in his new play, and the two must face the awkwardness of working together. Meanwhile, the young actor Dickie Reynolds, who is also in love with Linda, struggles with his own feelings. This episode of Screen Guild Theater, broadcast on December 3, 1939, stars Herbert Marshall, Gertrude Lawrence and John Macbrown, with the play by Samson Raphaelson. The story follows the characters' romantic entanglements and their conflicting ambitions.
New York City, in Stephen Gay's apartment overlooking the East River, and later in other rooms and locations around the city.
Characters: Stephen Gay, Linda Brown, Dickie Reynolds, Benham
Listen for: Stephen's long farewell speech to Linda and the moment Linda returns to his apartment to reconsider.
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.