Information, Please! was one of the most popular shows in the Golden Age of radio and ran as a weekly quiz show on NBC from 1938 to 1952, and was the most literate, long-running radio show of its day. The Show turned traditional quiz programs on their heads by allowing the public to ask questions of a panel of experts, who would then provide the answers, or at least a reply that was entertaining, if not plausible. Listeners from across the country wrote in with questions on topics ranging from performing arts to natural history. Signed book: Information Please 1941 Edition. : Random House, 1940. Hardcover, 6 x 8.75, 295 pages. Signed on the reverse of the first free end page and on both sides of the half title page by forty celebrities who appeared on the show, including: Alfred Hitchcock (signing with his profile sketch only), Elmer Layden, John Carradine, Christopher Morely, Gene Tunney, Cornelia Otis Skinner, Boris Karloff, Oscar Levant, Roland Young, Lewis Lawes, Lefty Gomez, Groucho Marx, C. S. Forester, Fred Allan, Edna Ferber, Marilyn Carrol and Ruth Hussey. In good condition, with scattered spotting and toning to signed pages, wear to covers, and scotch tape repairs to sunned spine. RRAuction COA.
