The intertwined lives of New Yorkers form a sweeping portrait of ambition, hardship, romance, and disillusionment in the rapidly changing early-twentieth-century city.

This NBC University Theater broadcast aired on January 8, 1950. It is listed as episode 71 in the archive. NBC Radio Network carried the broadcast. The cast includes Anne Diamond, Anne Whitfield, Bruce Payne, Don Randolph, and Eddie Fields. Other credited names include Andrew C. Love as director, Ernest Kinoy as writer, and Don Stanley as announcer.

The surviving recording runs about 60 minutes.

This version dramatizes Manhattan Transfer. John Dos Passos is credited as author.

A literary anthology presenting radio adaptations of important novels and plays, designed to bring major works of literature to a broad audience and at times used alongside university study programs.