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...ballet dancing all over the house, to print menus in the living room, fine and dandy. Any of these things is much better than working. But before giving full sanction to this joyous, carefree mode of life, we must observe that it all rests on the money the Grandpa made before that one morning when he decided in the elevator going up to his office that he didn't want to may any more money, and turned around and went home again. Incidentally, the family is made a little more comfortable by Grandpa's having omitted to pay the income...
...limited achievement because Harry never got much farther than the knowledge that God was looking out expressly for Harry Patterson. Of this, however, there was abundant proof. He was six feet tall and able to do a man's work when he ran away from his grandpa's farm at 14, his mother having married a mail clerk and gone to live in St. Louis. Thereafter seamen on the world's oceans knew him variously as Curly, Blondy, Highpockets, Spar, Slim and Horseshoes. He got the name Horseshoes from being a scientist with the dice...
...grown any younger since Pyramus & Thisbe. So theatrically threadbare is this narrative scheme that it takes an ignited dish of red fire to bring down the first act curtain, an off-stage explosion to close Act II. These punctuations are, however, not really necessary for in creating Grandpa Vanderhof (Henry Travers) and his clan -the Girl's family which the Boy's family views with alarm-the playwrights have conjured a species of dramatis personae which transcends plot, bursts the bonds of the established theatre and mounts into the stratosphere of great literary lunacy...
...morning 35 years before the curtain rises on You Can't Take It With You, Grandpa Martin Vanderhof arrived at his office building, rode upstairs on the elevator and rode down again. Grandpa had had enough. Thenceforth, he devoted his entire attention to witnessing commencements, visiting zoos, raising snakes, collecting stamps and taking it easy. He encouraged his household to do likewise, with the result that his son-in-law Sycamore took up Meccano and manufacturing fireworks, his daughter (Josephine Hull) turned to painting, then to playwriting when someone left a typewriter at the house by mistake. Grandpa...
...actress with the heebie-jeebies, then by a Russian who wants to wrestle, lastly by a party of raiders from the Federal Bureau of Investigation. A night in jail, however, softens up the haughty Kirbys. By the following evening the course of true love is smoothed and Grandpa is able to gather his family and friends and in-laws-to-be about his dinner table, amiably ask his customary benediction...