The play that's referred to, "Fifty Million Frenchmen," was a musical comedy written by Cole Porter and opened on Broadway in 1929.
On the phone, Dick and Anne tease Duckie that they can't agree on which vacuum cleaner to buy, a Peerless or a General Electric. The joke here appears to be that Peerless was an old maker of hand-pump vacuums, never electric ones.
The radio seen in the Ives' Manhattan townhouse - an obvious product placement with the closeup - is a Brunswick Panatrope model S-31 made by the Brunswick-Balke-Collender Company of Chicago; it includes a 78 rpm turntable on top. In good working and cosmetic condition in 2017, it could be worth $250 or more. However, at the time, it was state-of-the-art and quite expensive with a MSRP of $700 (over $14,000 in 2023). The opening credits of the film state "Brunswick Radios Used Exclusively".
According to Variety, Warner Bros paid Columbia Pictures $7000/week for the use of Barbara Stanwyck. That's equivalent to about $141,000/week in 2023.