Series II. Playwriting and Related Materials, 1931-1970, inclusive

Offsite-Box: 2 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Scope and Contents

This box contains much of Gould's professional career, including original scripts for radio dramas and stage plays, contracts and letters from agents, and magazines for which he wrote or edited. The material ranges from 1931 to 1970.

Magazines and Pamphlets, 1931-1970, inclusive

Offsite-Box: 2, Folder: 1 (Material Type: Text)

General

Includes Radio Stars (March 1931), Advertising + Selling (June 6, 1935), CBS Program Book (November 1939), Story: The Magazine of the Short Story (Spring 1948, photocopy), and True Experience (April 1970).

Miscellaneous, 1940s-1950s?, inclusive

Offsite-Box: 2, Folder: 2 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

General

Includes a clipping about The Scene of the Crime, a program for The Ben Bard Players present "Tenting Tonight," a flyer about the American Repertory Theatre, a signed flyer from "Forty five years from Broadway in honor of the departing Steinhardts," a photograph of Gould sitting at a desk, and a typed list of Gould's writings divided into plays, radio and tv, and magazines.

Professional Correspondence, 1933-1949, inclusive

Offsite-Box: 2, Folder: 3 (Material Type: Text)

Radio Scripts, 1935-1950, inclusive

Offsite-Box: 2, Folder: 4 (Material Type: Text)

General

Includes scripts for "Forgotten on November Twelfth" (November 12, 1935, presented by Fred Waring on The Ford Hour), "The Wonderful Day" (Columbia Workshop, November 30, 1939), "Main Street, U.S.A." (April 1940), Inner Sanctum Mysteries Script One (January 7, 1949), Inner Sanctum Mysteries No. 7 "The Strangled Snake" (February 18, 1941), Inner Sanctum Mysteries "The Patient Vanishes" (March 11, 1941), The Ave Maria Hour presents "The Story of Blessed Nuno Pereira" (November 5, 1950), The Ave Maria Hour presents "St. Camilius" (July 30, 1950). For scripts with both a recording date and a broadcast date, the broadcast date is given above.

Radio Scripts, Undated

Offsite-Box: 2, Folder: 5 (Material Type: Text)

General

Includes scripts for "Musical Fisticuffs," "Sound Over Matter," and three Bulldog Drummond scripts, one untitled script, "The Strange Death of Good Fairy," and "Murder with Gloves On."

Tenting Tonight Licensing and Contractual Materials, 1946-1947, inclusive

Offsite-Box: 2, Folder: 6 (Material Type: Text)

General

Contracts, a certificate of copyright registration, correspondence regarding commissions, and box office statements for Tenting Tonight, also listed in the paperwork as Snow-Job.

Theater and Stage Scripts, 1946, undated

Offsite-Box: 2, Folder: 7 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

General

Includes scripts for The Scene of the Crime (undated), Tenting Tonight (1946), and "The Adventures of Launcelot Butterflick Shmoolie, the Third" (undated).

Writing Conference Materials, 1955-1957, inclusive

Offsite-Box: 2, Folder: 8 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

General

Brochure for the Pacific Coast Writers Conference (1955), Bulletin no. 12 (Summer 1957) for Idyllwild Arts Foundation Writers Workshops and Conferences, and a letter from Idyllwild Writers Conference professor Frederick Shroyer about Frank Gould's contributions to the conference.

Autobiography, God Shed His Grace on Me, 1993

Offsite-Box: 2, Folder: 9 (Material Type: Computer Disks)

General

Flash drive containing a copy of Gould's autobiography.