Rumple is a comedy-musical with a book by Irving Phillips, music by Ernest G. Schweikert, and lyrics by Frank Reardon.

[2] It was directed by Jack Donohue with choreography by Bob Hamilton, settings and lighting by George Jenkins, costumes by Alvin Colt, and orchestrations by Ted Royal.

Judy is Nelson's fiancé; Kate is a man-hunting gag writer who pens the stories for Crandal's strip.

When Rumple is forced by the police to draw a picture of his girl for the missing-person investigation, the two comic strip characters are saved from Oblivia.

Brooks Atkinson of The New York Times called it “an elaborately dull show that is strangled in plot, and not distinguished musically.”[5] Another commentator wrote that the musical "was predominantly a mess ... in fact, the evening's only asset was that jaunty master of the soft shoe, the dead pan and the faraway smile, Eddie Foy.