What happens
Penny Wood, a fifteen-year-old who wants to start a writing career, and Chuck Harris, a sixteen-year-old who builds glider planes, are close neighbors and friends. Penny's uncle Mervin brings home a visiting New Yorker, Roger Van Vleck, who charms Penny with talk of Europe and cosmopolitan manners. Meanwhile Chuck's father has forbidden him to build planes, and Elmer Tuttle, Penny's family friend, becomes entangled in hiding Chuck's glider. The Screen Guild Theater series presents this 1946 Columbia Pictures teenage comedy, Her First Beau, starring Elizabeth Taylor, Lon McAllister and Walter Brennan, broadcast April 15, 1946.
A small town near a lake in the United States, where Penny's and Chuck's families live across the street from one another.
Characters: Penny Wood, Chuck Harris, Elmer Tuttle, Mervin, Roger Van Vleck, Julie Harris, Mrs. Wood, Mr. Harris
Listen for: Penny's mounting worry about Chuck's glider flight, and the moment Elmer and Chuck hide the glider in the empty house next door.
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.