Word: frakes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...midway, full of booths with popcorn, and whirling wheels; banners blazon forth the particular peculiarities of the inhabitants of the side show; and above it all, the calliope sounds the motif of a gala occasion in the life of every farmer--the state fair. Into this bucolic paradise, Abel Frake drives his Ford, his family, and his Hampshire boar Blue...
...influence of a comely sow who makes eyes at him from the next pen, wins the blue ribbon. Wayne, Abel's son, takes revenge on a loquacious spieler who had gulled him the year before, but immediately falls under the hypnotic influence of an acrobat in the show. Margy Frake meets Pat Gilbert, a newspaper man from the big city, whose influence with the judges wins the prizes for Mrs. Frake's pickles and mincemeat. Thoroughly satisfied with the week's entertainment, the Frakes drive home to another year of hog-raising and gloating over their six blue ribbons...
...Fair" is the squelching of Will Rogers and his comments on national affairs. He confines his activities almost exclusively, to Blue Boy's exhibition pen where he seems more at home than in the halls of King Arthur's court. Others in the cast, particularly Louise Dresser as Melissa Frake, and victor Jory as the barker, outshine their more highly paid companion, Janet Gaynor...
Everything always happens for the worst, the philosophic storekeeper back home used to wiseacre, but the Frake family are off to Des Moines and the Iowa State Fair, and nothing better could happen than that. Abel Frake guides the rumbling truck along the moonlit country roads. Beside him, his wife Melissa straddles the box of pickles she will exhibit. Their children, Margy and Wayne, are not in such a happy state of mind. Before they left, Margy had quarreled with her boy Harry because he kissed her, Wayne with his girl Eleanor because she would not kiss...