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Lewis Herman radio serialization of the GUMPS for W. G. N. Vintage original
$ 105.6
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This is a vintage staple bound work by Lewis Herman- He wrote tons of radio and movie scripts and treaments and books from the 1930s on.-Probably the same guy that wrote the dialect books and other theater books.
The paper is old, staple bound and in surprisingly good condition for its age.
I do not ship. This is local pickup only.
There is some hand writing in pen or pencil on the front cover light where on the edges and corners but not much it's in very good condition there is tanning there is bumping here in there and this is 11 pages of dialogue and then 2 more pages that are a synopsis of succeeding chapters
Please note most of the script is typed in black regular ink but the character names Andy, Min etc are in red and please look at my pictures it's old it's original it's one of a kind because WGN and the dumps influenced a lot of TV and radio after that I think it was the first radio serialization kinda like the grand father of soap operas please take a look look it up in Wikipedia this started at all
an excerp from wikipedia
History[edit]
The show first aired on WGN Chicago from 1931 until November 5, 1934. From 1934 until 1937 it aired on CBS Radio. WGN executive Ben McCanna believed that a dramatic serial could work on radio just as it did in newspapers. When he approached Gosden and Correll to adapt The Gumps to radio, they declined and instead devised their own characters for the 1926–27 radio serial, Sam 'n' Henry. After reworking these characters for Amos 'n' Andy in 1928–29, while borrowing certain elements from The Gumps, they were on their way to becoming millionaires, and the radio serial format they created soon became the model for many other serialized radio dramas.[2]
After The Gumps were finally heard on WGN in 1931, the series moved to CBS for a four-year run (1934–1937), produced and directed by Himan Brown with scripts by Irwin Shaw. Shaw had been scripting the Dick Tracy radio series, when Brown asked him if he thought he could write comedy. Brown later said, "He was sensational".[1] Karo Syrup and Pebeco toothpaste/tooth powder were the sponsors.