What happens
Susan and Barry Trexel are a married couple whose marriage has fallen apart, and their friends in the country house gather to offer opinions about them. Susan, newly returned from England where she has been swept up in a spiritual movement, arrives at the house, while Barry has been drinking heavily. Their daughter Blossom and the household staff watch as tensions rise among the guests, including Irene, Barry's companion, and Clyde Rochester, an actor. This is an episode of the Screen Guild Theater, first broadcast on September 23, 1946, and featuring Walter Pidgeon, Betty Davis and Eve Arden in the leading roles, as the program's announcer presents it. The story centers on Susan's efforts to make sense of her life and her relationship with Barry.
A country house in the United States, where Susan and Barry's friends gather and the Trexel family lives, with a summer stay at the house.
Characters: Susan Trexel, Barry Trexel, Irene, Clyde Rochester, Blossom, Leonora, Stubby, Dan
Listen for: Susan's claims about the spiritual movement she found in England, and Barry's struggle with drinking as the marriage is discussed.
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.