What happens
Tony Warren, a New York designer of men's clothes, decides to prove that a well-dressed man is made by his clothes. She chooses Peter Graham, a Greenwich Village author, as her subject and invites him to dinner. Her mother and her business manager Kenneth Pickles join in. Peter is taken into Tony's world and begins to change, while Tony and Peter grow closer. The series is Screen Guild Theater, aired March 12, 1939, with Carole Lombard as Tony and James Stewart as Peter, with Spring Byington and Edward Everett Horton also heard.
New York City, including Tony's fashion studio, Greenwich Village and Washington Square, a city bus, and Tony's apartment.
Characters: Tony Warren, Peter Graham, Mrs. Warren, Kenneth Pickles, Michael Barberne, Anne Prentice
Listen for: Tony's bet that clothes make the man, and Peter's reaction when she tries to remake him.
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.
