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danger — and then to insure maximum sympathy he had him shell out his last badly-needed dollar to a stranded bus passenger's impoverished kid.
Because Diamond Lil's role was obviously non-appealing, as far as the greater audience was concerned, the author induced more sympathy when he had her sacrifice a valuable piece of jewelry to save the mission chief from eviction, and then had her rescue an innocent country girl being forced into white slavery.
Jailing newlyweds on the eve of their marriage is probably the most effective sympathy-getter an author could cook up unless he were one of those few inhibited or embittered souls who have completely forgotten the days when desire ran a temperature.
Condemning the hero to death for a crime he knew nothing about did not contain enough appeal to satisfy the author of Ladies of the Big House so he had the police toss his wife into prison. All of which gives us a pretty fair idea of what induces sympathy.
As for provocation of sympathy any provocation must necessarily originate in things that hinder the furtherance of a sympathetic pursuit, some non-appealing factor, a non-appealing pursuit, a circumstance or condition that stands in the way of sympathetic pursuit-furtherance. But the question now arises as to just how much the alleged non-appealing pursuits, people and backgrounds 'actually arouse the fear or loathing necessary to provoke adequate sympathy. To what extent do our movie menaces, villains and heavies in general present a danger, a threat or hazard to the happiness of hero or heroine?
In one-syinpathetic-pursuit plays such as Mr. Deeds Goes to Town, It Happened One Night, Ladies of the Big House, My Man Godfrey, The Redheaded Woman and Theodora Goes Wild the non-appealing pursuits were snooping detectives, newspapers and local busybodies harassing the flight of a romantic couple; predatory administrators after Mr. Deeds' inheritance; the upper politico-under-world blocking the escape of newlyweds innocently incarcerated for murder; a pair of dizzy females on the make for their butler; village stuffed shirts excluding a lovely but socially ineligible store clerk ; and smug big town and small town fear of scandal getting in the way of Theodora's romance,
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