" . . . business," Dick sings to Evelyn during HAPPILY BURIED, a primer on business mergers, gender roles, and differences in brain wiring from the 1900s. Evelyn has been enjoying a free ride for her "Foster Magic Circle Waffle Irons" because she's deluded a significant number of U.S. housewives to spend their pin money on her inferior design out of misplaced gender loyalty. Dick, of Wright Four Square Waffle Iron Corporation, is willing to put Evelyn and her Magic Circles out of their misery by consolidating everything into a new concern named Combination Waffles. However, Dick makes no secret of the fact that he'll never waffle on the basics of modern iron design: he informs Evelyn that it's the square way or the highway for her. By the end of HAPPILY BURIED everybody's thrilled to be back on the Wright track. Absolutely no one is seen moping around, stretching an "I'm with her" T-shirt beyond its limits. The ladies are pleased as punch to admit the errors of their ways, with the guys looking over-joyed to hot-foot it back into their boardroom.
Review of Happily Buried
Happily Buried
(1939)
"You'll run our house, and I'll run our . . . "
6 February 2018
Warning: Spoilers