What happens
Paul Garvey, a former Broadway director whose recent plays have failed, tries to stage a comeback with the play Island Night by Eliot Forbes. He reconciles with his leading lady, Jessica Marlon, and needs fifty thousand dollars to fund the production. His wife, Dorothy, refuses to finance it and wants a divorce. Paul stages a burglary with a false insurance claim, and the scheme draws him into a deeper crisis when Dorothy confronts him about the money. The Whistler's story of Garvey's Folly is set in New York, with the broadcast first airing on January 24, 1954.
New York City and Staten Island, in the early 1950s
Characters: Paul Garvey, Jessica Marlon, Dorothy Garvey, Eliot Forbes, Chip Edwards, Detective Sergeant Anderson, James, Jim Daniels
Listen for: Paul's desperate attempt to raise money for his comeback, and the moment Dorothy discovers the hidden jewelry in the attic.
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.