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Lum Tries Proposing

Description

Lum has made up his mind to ask Mabel Melrose to marry him, but Abner keeps getting in the way and making things harder for him.

Lum and Abner was an American network radio comedy program created by Chester Lauck and Norris Goff that was produced from 1931 to 1954. Modeled on life in the small town of Waters, Arkansas, near where Lauck and Goff grew up, the show proved immensely popular. In 1936, Waters changed its name to "Pine Ridge" after the show's fictional town.

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Sound Recordings

Sound Recording A11m53s

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Cast & Crew

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Chester A. Lauck

Cast

Thu Jul 1 1943 Thu Jul 1

Comedy Soap Opera

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