Beschreibung
"Today's Children" was a very popular 1930s radio soap opera created and written by Irna Phillips. The show focused on a widow, Mother Moran, and her family - adult children and their offspring. Phillips, herself, read the part of Mother Moran. The show was sponsored by Pillsbury Flour Mills Company, and broadcast on NBC, running from 1933 to 1938. The show was so popular that Pillsbury decided to sponsor a novel based on the show, complete with all the original characters. ******** Presented here is that novel, "Today's Children, A Story of American Life". The book has a frontispiece portrait of Mother Moran (likely a fictionalized drawing), and the story, itself, is illustrated by handsome halftone photographs of the fictional Moran family members, likely portrayed by the voice actors who played the parts on the radio. (The photographs are identified by the roles portrayed - no actors' names are provided) The story is also illustrated by a number of handsome line drawings. No author is credited, but the book is stated as "Published by Pillsbury Flour Mills Company, in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Copyright was held by The National Broadcasting Company. ******** The following are excerpts from the dust-jacket preview: "TODAY'S CHILDREN is the story of the dramatic conflict between the philosophy of the older generation and that of the young men and women of today. Here is a novel packed full of episode and character. People from every walk of life. Women who have tried to find their individual places in the industrial world. Problems that every family faces at one time or another. Woven into the pages of this realistic novel, is a character a woman a mother a grandmother who looks at life with eyes of the past and eyes of the future. You will laugh and cry with 'Mother Moran' the kindly, lovable character whose belief it is that the children of today are no different from those of yesterday, and tomorrow's children will be no different from those of today." ********* "TODAY'S CHILDREN : The Radio Program."Follow the experience of these interesting people whose lives to date have been unfolded in the novel, 'Today's Children'. Fran, Terry, Kay, Mother Moran, Gloria, Mr. Coles and all the rest what new people will enter into the life pattern of 'Today's Children' What new problems will present themselves What new situations will develop in this human interest story? Be at your loud speaker daily, and follow the lives of Mother Moran and her 'Today's Children', sponsored by the Pillsbury Flour Mills Company, over the Red Network of the National Broadcasting Company." ********** TITLE : Today's Children, a Story of Modern American Life. AUTHOR : Not given [ Irma Phillips, 1901 - 1973 ]. IMPRINT : Pillsbury Flour Mills Company. PLACE : Minneapolis, Minnesota. DATE : ( 1937 ) [ © National Broadcasting Company ]. EDITION : First Edition . STATUS : OP Out of Print. ********* Promotional novel published for the trade; Illustrated with line drawings and halftone photographs; has a frontispiece portrait of 'Mother Moran' (Not a photograph); 312 pages; 5 1/8" x 7 1/2", light gray cloth-covered boards, with lettering in red on spine and front board. Decorated dust-jacket colored in gray, white and dark red. CONDITION : VERY GOOD - - This is a previously owned book which remains clean and attractive, with the following noted: EXTERIOR - Moderate compression to spine extremities, else signs of handling are mild, and the whole presents crisply clean.Text-block edges are clean. BINDING - Solid. INTERIOR - A minute chip to the top edge of the front fly-leaf, else the interior is clean and presentable. The drawings and photographs present brightly. DUST-JACKET - FAIR- - The jacket is rough about the edges, with tears, nicking, chipping and small loss; surface rub is moderate; jacket folds are abraded and display surface loss; spine panel is faded; a bit of scattered spotting and abrasion. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 221
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