What happens
Professor Bertram Potts, a scholar isolated for nine years in a dormitory writing an encyclopedia, goes out into the city to research slang for his article on the topic. At a nightclub he meets the performer Sugarpuss O'Shea, who has a large store of colorful slang. When she shows up at the professors' house in the middle of the night, hiding from the police, the household is drawn into her troubles. Starring Paulette Goddard, Kay Kyser and Richard Haydn, this Screen Guild Theater presentation of the 1942 film Ball of Fire aired on November 30, 1942.
A dormitory-style house in New York City occupied by a group of professors compiling an encyclopedia, and a nightclub.
Characters: Professor Bertram Potts, Sugarpuss O'Shea, Professor Oddly, Professor Robinson, Professor Gurkakoff, Joe Lilac, Asma
Listen for: Sugarpuss O'Shea's slang expressions and Professor Potts's reactions to them.
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.