Summary
A hayseed meteor named Sylvester Tibble plummets from rustic obscurity into Manhattan’s electric cabarets, trading the sweet stink of his uncle’s pottery kilns for the syncopated sweat of jazz-age footlights. Under the tutelage of Junie Budd—part Aphrodite, part metronome—he transmutes gangling innocence into centrifugal grace, their four limbs drafting a manifesto of motion that seduces Broadway’s most jaded balconies. Yet the spotlight’s cobalt haze cannot eclipse the clay-stained ghosts of home: an almost bankrupt jug works, a bilious uncle who brandishes the epithet “dancin’ fool” like a branding iron, and a rapacious competitor named Harkins waiting to swallow the family kiln. Sylvester, still pulsing with Charleston carbonation, pirouettes back to the loading docks, converts pirouettes into profit spreadsheets, and saves the workshop with an avalanche of modern purchase orders. The final curtain falls on a double merger—corporate and connubial—as he signs the factory deed with one hand and slips a wedding ring on Junie’s raised, still-quivering toe with the other.
Synopsis
Fresh from the country, Sylvester Tibble secures a six dollar-a-week job at his Uncle Enoch Jones's antiquated jug business. One night he drifts into a cabaret and meets dancer Junie Budd who teaches him her profession. They become dancing partners and make a big hit on Broadway. Returning home from a prolonged business trip, Sylvester discovers that Harkins, a rival jug manufacturer, is about to buy out his uncle. Previously denounced as a "dancin' fool" by his Uncle Enoch, Sylvester now saves the business with an influx of new orders gained through his modern business techniques. Sylvester then enters into business partnership with his uncle and a marriage partnership with Junie.
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