Fred Allen plays Rip, in the Bronx of 1928, but it's not the version of Rip Van Winkle you're expecting - the easygoing, henpecked husband who wanders off to the mountains and appears back to his Dutch-American village twenty years later. The Theater Guild on the Air version is a play within a play, and with Fred Allen starring, you're guaranteed plenty of laughs..

**The president of United States Steel delivers a year end message.