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ed most to do equalled the appeal in Holiday's desire to live. Was anything equivalent to Holiday's spiritkilling same thing day in and day out and piling up money threatening enjoyment of their hobbies? No. They had no money worries at all, and the banker put no serious dampener on their fun.
"What then specifically threatened uninterrupted enjoyment of doing what they wanted most to do? The granddaughter's romance was broken up by the premature visit of the rich boy's family, so the girl went away, leaving her family saddened. But grandfather had an easy solution for that. They would pack up and move to where she had fled.
"Neither did grandfather in refusing to tell the rich boy where the girl was hiding present any problem. All the boy had to do was trail the moving van. Thus with nothing of any consequence hindering, where was the grip on audience emotions comparable to that secured by things that got in the way of Holidav's desire to live?
"As far as furtherance was concerned, the action was hoked the whole distance. The contrasts achieved by the old banking family calling on the hobbyists was as antipodal as Fernand Gravet and Patsy Kelly. The fireworks explosion and rich-man-poor-man jugged in the same cell with a clot of riff-raff was contrived. Mischa Auer's tag, "It steenks !" was formula. A great banker unaware that his son was in love with the granddaughter of the man who refused to sell the piece of property he so badly needed was patently situational. The long arm of coincidence was plainly visible in the girl's family holding the case ace in that deal. And a suicide bringing home to the banker the truth that you can't take it with you was tentwenty-thirty.
"Allowing, finally, that in members of the family doing what each wanted to do it was just a menagerie of fun, and characterized selfishness in the wacky manner of My Man Godfrey, then who characterized Godfrey's unselfishness? The old Grandfather? Hardly. He was doing exactly what he wanted to do.
"It follows then that You Can't Take It With You was designed solely for laughs. In which case where were the depths from which laughs sounded compares