What happens
John Lane and his friend Biff Allen, broke and unemployed in New York, hatch a scheme to marry a wealthy woman. John courts Julie Warren, an heiress he believes is worth millions, and they marry. Her fortune turns out to be a fabrication, and the couple's marriage begins to unravel as money troubles mount. The story is an episode of The Whistler, first broadcast on November 13, 1944, a radio drama series sponsored by the Signal Oil Company. Its leads are not named in the transcript.
New York City, including the Cameo Bar and the Park Plaza Hotel
Characters: John Lane, Biff Allen, Julie Warren, Joe
Listen for: John's scheme to marry Julie for her supposed fortune, and the revelation of her true financial situation
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.