What happens
Count Leon Dalgu, a Parisian lawyer, is hired by the Duchess Swana to block three Soviet trade officials from selling her confiscated jewels. Commissar Nina Yakushova is sent from Moscow to deal with the matter and soon finds herself drawn into a romance with Leon. The story unfolds through the broadcast of Screen Guild Theater, which presents this adaptation of the 1939 film Ninotchka, aired on April 21, 1940. Rosalind Russell and Spencer Tracy star in this production.
Paris in the spring, and the Soviet trade delegation's hotel suite.
Characters: Nina Yakushova, Leon Dalgu, Duchess Swana, Razinin, Bouloff, Kopalski, Commissar Razinin
Listen for: Nina's sharp exchanges with Leon and the Soviet delegates, and the moment the jewels become a bargaining point.
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.