Wisconsin Yarns presents The Literary Piano, the story of Christopher Latham Sholes and the invention of the typewriter. The Literary Piano starts a series in which Wisconsin Yarns produces Wisconsin plays by Wisconsin writers. The only requirement is that the plays must have a Wisconsin settting or background and must be thirty minutes in length. A playwrighting manual was available by request. WHA Players heard today: (spelling of names uncertain) Karl Schmidt, Marsha Marcus, Daryl Hiken, Nick Grossenbach, Jerry Davis, Junes Eddy, Dick Cash, Sherry Abrams, Ruth Clyde, Muriel Lewis, and Gene Remus. Music by Patricia Griffin, sound by Bob Howard, technical operation by Robert Wickham. Cliff Owens, speaking.
[Label transcription] (Part 1) THE LITERARY PIANO Wisconsin Yarns 1 of 2 H-186 33 Narrator: Robert Gard Gerald Bar; 1/10/47 [rest of label torn] (Part 2, handwritten) #1247; 24'35"; Wis Yarns; The Lit. Piano; Pt 2 of 2