A hundred million movie-goers must be right... (1938)

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trouble building a maximum sympathy with only half the inherent appeal of the two-sympathetic-pursuiters. Lacking the basic appeal of the two-sympatheticpursuit movies the single-rolers or one-against-theworld movies are of course compelled to induce or provoke sympathy to rate the greater appreciation. But just because two-sympathetic-pursuit movies contained twice the appeal of the one-pursuiters does not exempt those movies from inducing and provoking more sympathy. On the contrary, because of equality of appeal, suspense tends to dominate in the two sympathetic pursuit movies, sympathy leveling off or even lessening. Sympathy, as well as suspense in all movies should be heightened every foot of a film's running. Inducing sympathy is comparatively simple. For example, a mother, ill and hungry, is discovered searching an empty cupboard for food, a pathetic sight and one guaranteed to produce much sympathy, but to insure a maximum sympathy several gaunt and ragged children are introduced. The same applies when a great shaggy Saint Bernard comes out of the barn, tail a-wagging. Try and match that for appeal, but the wise technician cinches sympathy with a squad of pups trailing her. In Theodora Goes Wild the main sympathetic pursuit was the pursuit of romance but due to the inadequacy of that pursuit as a sympathy-getter the author had Theodora shielding the marriage and confinement of her enemy's granddaughter. Madelon Claudet's happiness was contained in the possibility of getting her boy back. He had been placed in an orphanage when Madelon was sent to prison. Denied that happiness, she begged that they let her help pay for the boy's education, which induced that much more sympathy. In My Man Godfrey the author not only made his hero a menial — and a hero as a servant is always an appealing role — along with that he had Godfrey actively interested in unemployment on the city dump. The hero in It Happened One Night was also one of the unemployed. But not sure of the heart tug in unemployment the author saddled him with a strange lady in distress — than which nothing contains more 44