Summary
A gingham-draped cyclone named Lulubelle, the toast of Broadway’s footlight empire, is dragged by her rag-tag troupe into a dust-blown whistle-stop where the main thoroughfare is a chalk line between wheat and wilted dreams. A telegram—ink still wet with condescension—beckons her never-met cousin, a straw-chewing cipher called Elmer, to sit in the velvet void of the town’s repurposed granary-cum-theatre. The company expects a hayseed caricature; instead they harvest a limber trickster who back-flips through their choreographed condescension, turning every sequined barb into a boomerang of slapstick epiphany. By the final reel the footlights have blistered, the orchestra’s brass is bent into a banjo, and the star who once sparkled under klieg-light coronation now strips to gingham humility, crooning a reprise that tastes of iron-rich soil rather than champagne.
Synopsis
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. Just what the "rube" does supplies the greater portion of the fun.
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