What happens
Jim Sloan, a wealthy plumbing-business man played by Jack Benny, is surprised when a charity raffle he entered at a society ball leaves him with an orphan to adopt. He expects a small boy named Marcel but finds a young French woman, Marcel, who arrives hungry and homeless. Sloan tries to make her comfortable in his house, but her presence complicates his plans and his social life. The episode is part of the Screen Guild Theater series, broadcast on March 29, 1942, with Paulette Goddard in the role of Marcel.
New York City, in the 1940s: Sloan's plumbing business office, a charity ball, and his home.
Characters: Jim Sloan, Miss Humphrey, Clara Palmer, Marcel Bender, Charles, Mrs. Hortense Van Martin
Listen for: The mix-up when Sloan expects a small boy and finds a young woman instead.
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.