What happens
Guy Holden, an American singer, and his English friend Egbert Fitzgerald, a barrister, are in Paris and London in this Screen Guild Theater adaptation of The Gay Divorce, first broadcast on March 6, 1944. After a dispute at a Paris cafe, Guy meets an American woman whose dress he accidentally tears in a customs queue, and he becomes determined to find her again. Later, Egbert takes on a client, Mrs. Glasser, who wants a divorce, and a plan is made involving a hotel and a hired correspondent. Starring Frank Sinatra, Gloria DeHaven, Spring Byington and Edward Everett Horton.
Paris and London in the 1930s, including a Paris cafe, a London customs area, and a seaside hotel
Characters: Guy Holden, Egbert Fitzgerald, Mimi, Hortense, Mrs. Glasser, Rupert Glasser
Listen for: Guy's declaration that chance is the fool's name for faith, and Egbert's teasing about the rhythm of the Continental
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.