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no strongly non-appealing base. Even though the temperamental leading lady made things difficult for the stage director when she weakened in her promise to keep the show's backer entertained — jeopardizing the director's chances of making a hit musical-comedy record — the audience was not in the least out of sympathy with her. She was fighting for the love of her boy friend, a thing just as vital to her happiness as a production record to the director's. Of course, the inherent bid for sympathy in 42nd Street was remotely placed, because it was back stage, but the leading lady's fear of losing her man and the handicap of ill health that the director worked under made both pursuits intensely human, real and appealing.
Bad Girl also divided sympathy for a strong sidetaking reaction. Millions of men and women who had fathered and mothered children so long ago they had forgotten the fears that attend the expectation and travail were sorely exasperated with the young wife's fretting. As a result there was a strong sympathy for the young husband struggling to provide for her, to indulge her moods and at the same time keep intact the money he had saved to go into business for himself.
However, along with those millions there were other millions of young married men and women not too old to remember vividly the terrors that child-birth had once held for them and for millions of about-to-be-weds and newly-weds even greater terror.
The Three Smart Girls was another "deplorable circumstances" story with plenty of sympathy for both the girls and their father and mother, but done in the lighter vein. Because the father was conditioning himself for marriage to a young wife, sympathy was inverted, provoking laughter. Just the same there were millions of old coots consulting rejuvenators and ukelele teachers who had a fellow feeling for the father, giving the Three Smart Girls tremendous dual appeal because millions of elderly wives were pulling just as hard for the girls to win Daddy back to mother.
In Holiday we saw a young man in love, planning to marry and then off with his bride to see the world. And there indeed was and is and always will be the pur
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