What happens
Chris Tyler, a newspaper reporter, and Sicily, an aspiring actress, marry and move into a small apartment in New York, where she hopes to start a stage career. Their life is tested by Chris's demanding foreign assignments and her growing commitment to the theater, while their friend Tommy, who has long admired Sicily, watches the couple struggle. The episode is from the Screen Guild Theater series, first broadcast on February 18, 1940, with James Cagney, Olivia de Havilland and Jeffrey Lynn in the leading roles. The story is adapted from a play by Ursula Parrott and is performed live before an audience.
New York City and Europe, including Rome and Switzerland, during the late 1930s
Characters: Chris Tyler, Sicily, Tommy Abbott, Mr. Jennings, Mr. Carter
Listen for: The exchange in which Sicily decides to stay behind and the later meeting between Chris and Sicily in Switzerland.
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.