- An Iowa family finds adventure, love, and heartbreak when they spend a week at the state fair.
- The Frake family attends the Iowa State Fair. Father Abel enters his Hampshire boar Blue Boy in the hog contents; mother Melissa enters the mincemeat competition; and their young-adult children Margy and Wayne find love with newspaper reporter Pat Gilbert and trapeze artist Emily Joyce. Will everyone return home safe and happy or will hearts be broken?—L. Hamre
- The Frakes--father Abel, mother Melissa, and young-adult children Wayne and Margy--are an Iowa farm family getting ready to go to the week-long Iowa State Fair taking place just over 100 miles away. Wayne isn't looking forward to going; his girlfriend Eleanor won't be going as they've just had an argument, and he's still stinging from being cheated at last year's fair by the ring-toss-booth operator. On the other hand, Margy is secretly looking forward to getting away from her unofficial fiance Harry Ware; the boor has actually mapped out their entire lives without even asking her what she really wants. Melissa is confident about the pickles she will be entering for competition, but must decide to go with or against her temperance mentality in adding brandy to her mincemeat, which she and Abel know deep in their hearts would make it taste better. And Abel's potentially prizewinning boar Blue Boy seems lethargic. At the fair, Melissa will learn if she--and, behind the scenes, Abel--made the right decision about the mincemeat. The cure to Blue Boy's woes can be found at the fair, if Abel can just get him in the right position for that cure to work. And Wayne and Margy leave their romantic issues at home behind them as they fall for fair performer Emily Joyce and newspaper reporter Pat Gilbert. Can both Frake offsprings' romances extend beyond the length of the fair, especially considering Emily and Pat's worldly versus Wayne and Margy's sheltered farm-life differences?—Huggo
- The excitement, laughter, romance, and adventure of the great State Fair of Iowa is reflected in the expressions of the Frake family as they prepare to make the 100-mile journey to the event they've eagerly awaited for a year. Abel Frank (Will Rogers) has entered his prize hog Blue Boy in the livestock competition, while Melissa (Louise Dresser) hopes to win the Blue Ribbon for her pickles and mincemeat. Their grown children, Margy (Janet Gaynor) and Wayne (Norman Foster), anticipate adventure and romance at the fair. As the event lasts a full week, the Frakes have pitched their tent on the fairgrounds. Abel spends most of his time grooming and tending Blue Boy, who develops an interest in a sow in another pen, while Melissa is happily exchanging recipes and gossip with the other women in the competition. Meanwhile, Margy meets Pat Gilbert (Lew Ayres), who is much more interesting than the boy back home, and Wayne has fallen in love with Emily Joyce (Sally Eilers), an aerial artist with the carnival.—-Les Adams <longhorn1939@suddenlink.net>
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