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Arcadian Adventures with the Idle Rich is a collection of humorous interwoven vignettes by Stephen Leacock, published in 1914. It exists as a companion work to his Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town (1912), due to the similarity of composition, and their subject matter.
In 1952, the book was adapted into a television series, Sunshine Sketches, by CBC Television, the network's first foray into Canadian-produced drama. [ citation needed ] The cast of the series included John Drainie as the Narrator, Paul Kligman as John Smith, Timothy Findley as Peter Pupkin, Eric House as Dean Drone, Peg Dixon as Liliane Drone ...
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Download as PDF; Printable version; ... 1914 fiction books (2 C) N. 1914 non-fiction books (31 P) ... Arcadian Adventures with the Idle Rich; Autobiographies of Maxim ...
Thorstein Bunde Veblen (July 30, 1857 – August 3, 1929) was an American economist and sociologist who, during his lifetime, emerged as a well-known critic of capitalism.. In his best-known book, The Theory of the Leisure Class (1899), Veblen coined the concepts of conspicuous consumption and conspicuous leisure.
The Idle Rich is a 1914 American silent film produced by Sid Films and distributed by Warner's Features. It was directed by Sidney Olcott with Valentine Grant and Arthur Donaldson in the leading roles.
Rich Man, Poor Girl is a 1938 American comedy film directed by Reinhold Schünzel and starring Robert Young, Ruth Hussey and Lew Ayres. [2] The film is a remake of the 1929 film The Idle Rich. [3] This was Lana Turner's second appearance as an MGM star.
[citation needed] In 1914, she married Olcott, with whom she would remain for the rest of her life, [2] and after he left Kalem she performed in a few films for his production company before retiring in 1918. Grant died in 1949 a few months before her husband. She is buried in Cypress View Mausoleum and Crematory, San Diego, California ...