What happens
Roger Adams and Julia Gardner marry in a hurry, then Roger leaves for Japan on a train, and Julia stays behind. Years later, the couple runs a newspaper in Japan, and they decide to adopt a baby girl from an orphanage. They name her Trina and build their life around her. The Screen Guild Theater presents Penny Serenade, a 1941 radio adaptation of the Columbia film, with Irene Dunne and Cary Grant in the lead roles. The original air date was November 16, 1941. Host Rod Hilton introduces the story before the drama begins.
Japan and an orphanage in the United States, in the late 1930s and early 1940s
Characters: Roger Adams, Julia Gardner, Miss Oliver, Trina, Judge
Listen for: The adoption interview at the orphanage and the moment Roger realizes the baby has become his child
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.