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Theatre Burns To The Ground

A fire has burned down Lum's theatre to the ground. Abner thinks Lum might have started the fire on purpose so he could get money from insurance. But it turns out Lum didn't even have fire insurance in the first place!

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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“Theatre Burns To The Ground.” Lum and Abner. Radio broadcast, July 15, 1935.

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