What happens
Dr. Jacob Benton, the wealthiest and most prominent physician in an upstate county, wants his son Tom to continue the family tradition of surgery. Tom has fallen in love with Nita, a girl from the East Bottoms, and has given up his studies. Jacob confronts Nita and offers her money to leave his son alone, but she refuses. Tom and Nita decide to elope by plane to an island, and a crash follows. The episode is part of The Whistler, a CBS series, and this story aired on October 11, 1942, with no lead actors named in the transcript.
An upstate county town, including its wealthy side and the lower-end East Bottoms, and an island reached by plane during a storm.
Characters: Dr. Jacob Benton, Tom Benton, Nita, Harvey Gilderley, Jenkins, Dr. Groberg
Listen for: Jacob's offer of money to Nita and the argument that follows, and the events at the crash site.
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.