[Rarebooks] FS: Thornton Wilder's copy of Radio Transcript for DEMOCRATIC WOMEN'S DAY with Katherine Hepburn, Eleanor Roosevelt, etc.

[Charles Agvent]

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WILDER, Thornton; ROOSEVELT, Eleanor; HEPBURN, Katherine;  STOUT,
Rex;  FERBER,  Edna; et. al. DEMOCRATIC WOMEN'S DAY PROGRAM. 27  Sept.
1940.  First Edition. THORNTON WILDER's copy of the 27-page script  of
the  transcript of this radio broadcast SIGNED by him in pencil at the
top  left  corner  of  the first page. Other  participants  were  Marc
Connelly,  Frank  Kingdon,  Alice  Duer  Miller,  Elmer  Rice,  Robert
Sherwood,  Frank  Sullivan, and Hendrick Van Loon. The  broadcast  was
hosted  by  Eleanor Roosevelt and presented under the auspices of  the
Democratic  Committee. Accompanied by a TYPED LETTER SIGNED  addressed
to  George  from  Wilder's sister Isabel: "Thornton  wondered  if  you
would  be  interested in having as a minor item, this enclosed  script
of  a recent broadcast. All the material was originally each speaker's
and  then  rewritten by a staff radio writer. The changes  drove  each
poor  perfomer mad in several incidences, as as [sic] they read on the
air,  the  [sic] made slight revisions more in keeping with their  own
character.  The  signature  is my brother's own, although  done  under
pressure  it  does  not look completely original!" Scarce  item.  Near
Fine                                                          $3500.00

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