What happens
Former stage star John Maynard, now a broken alcoholic, is offered a comeback role by producer Oliver Stanley in a Broadway play on the condition that he stay sober. Maynard accepts, but when his understudy Lewis Cook tempts him with a drink and Stanley learns of it, the agreement collapses and Maynard is thrown out. The Whistler series aired this episode, "Comeback," on 1948-01-07, and the transcript cuts off partway through the story.
Broadway and Fifth Avenue in New York City, including a theatre, a dressing room, and a hotel.
Characters: John Maynard, Oliver Stanley, Lewis Cook, Frank, Fred, Duncan
Listen for: Listen for the moment Maynard is offered the part on the condition that he stay sober, and for how the bargain falls apart.
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.