Love Is News: Screen Guild Theater (March 18, 1946)

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“Love Is News” is an episode of Screen Guild Theater, the old-time radio show, first broadcast March 18, 1946. Listen free on Stupid Potato: no sign-up, no app.

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What happens

Steve Layton, a newspaper reporter, is fired by his managing editor Marty Canavan and wanders off to play pinball. Canavan soon returns with a tip that heiress Tony Gateson is arriving in town, and he sends Steve to get the story. Steve meets Tony at the airport and begins a tangle of mistaken identities, police trouble and rival reporters. This episode of Screen Guild Theater aired on March 18, 1946, with Bob Hope, Linda Darnell and James Gleason in the leading roles.

A city restaurant, an airport, a newspaper office, a small-town courtroom and a hotel room

Characters: Steve Layton, Marty Canavan, Tony Gateson, Mr. Strawcob

Listen for: Steve's jokes about Marty and the pinball game, and the scene where Tony talks with Steve at the airport

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.