What happens
Frank Morgan and George Murphy, along with Mary Boland, Marlene Dietrich and Cliff Edwards, present a variety program on the Screen Guild Theater, first broadcast on January 29, 1939. Morgan and Murphy quarrel over who belongs on the show, and Murphy introduces a song sung by Morgan. Boland arrives and presents Professor Nizaro, who explains double talk. Dietrich then sings in a cafe scene. The program closes with a comic spy skit in which Morgan's agent is sent to arrest a spy at a hotel.
A radio variety show broadcast from Hollywood, with a comic spy sketch set in 1927 at the Imperial Arms Hotel in Tractonia.
Characters: Frank Morgan, George Murphy, Mary Boland, Professor Nizaro, Marlene Dietrich, Oscar Bradley, George Perkins
Listen for: Frank Morgan and George Murphy trading jokes over who belongs on the show, and the explanation of double talk by Professor Nizaro.
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.