This hour-long Fred Allen episode is from the period when the series was titled "Texaco Star Theater", which was the title Texaco used for its most prominently-sponsored show at any given time.
At this point, the show was moving away from the "Town Hall Tonight" format, and closer to the format it would have in the "Allen's Alley" years. In the spot where "Allen's Alley" would be later, there was a similar segment called "The Newsreel", with man-on-the-street interviews. If you listen closely, you can hear Alan Reed and Minerva Pious doing character spots in the Newsreel; they would become more well-known as the characters Falstaff Openshaw and Mrs. Nussbaum.
The guest star is trendy New York restaurateur Lindy Lindemann, proprietor of Lindy's.
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