A musical comedy company visits a small town. The star is reminded that she has a country cousin who she has never seen and the players think that it would be good sport to invite the "rube" to see the show.


A footlight juggernaut barrels into a grain-silo town expecting to mock the yokels; the yokels juggle back and set the stage on fire. Vaudeville’s cadaver had scarcely cooled when A Home Spun Hero jitterbugged onto screens in the spring of 1923, a scrappy five-reeler determined to prove that synchronized corn could ...


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" A footlight juggernaut barrels into a grain-silo town expecting to mock the yokels; the yokels juggle back and set the stage on fire. Vaudeville’s cadaver had scarcely cooled when A Home Spun Hero jitterbugged onto screens in the spring of 1923, a scrappy five-reeler determined to prove that synchronized corn could still pop. What survives today—scattered 16 mm diaries preserved by accident in an Ohio barn—feels less like a relic than a dare. The dare: to watch without tasting straw between y..."
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