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reason at all she went suddenly mawkish, handed the kids her savings, bundled them into an old strugglebuggy, cranked it up and leaped aside to give the honeymooners a rousing send-off Then the flivver suddenly developed a bad attack of laryngitis and she was forced to push it half way down the lane getting the lovers onto the High Road to Romance.
In reading that sentimental obtrusion it isn't any too comical, but rest assured, getting that wobbly flivver off to a fair start had the audience in stitches. A really capable comedienne, the late Marie Dressier, did the heaving and grunting.
Whether or not that bit of obvious hoke hurt the screen version's chances at the annual poll cannot be determined. The point is, helping the lovers removed one of the reasons for the struggle to possess the treasured paintings at a time when suspense was keyed at its highest. And the youngsters' romance, being strictly in the sex-appeal stage, the maid's love for the deceased artist transcending it so completely, the hokey obtrusion became outright sacrilege.
In other words hokum obtrudes when it is used deliberately to enhance or enlarge a pursuit it is not primarily furthering.
The daughter's romance was one of the principal factors inspiring the doctor to get possession of the paintings. In other words the romance, a secondary expression of greed, motivated dispossession, not possession.
Hoking furtherance of a clearly defined main pursuit with stimulants of a known potency and distinctly unrelated to that pursuit produces the same reaction in an audience a football game does when the teams halt play for a round of poker, or a poker game is halted to indulge in a bit of romancing or ckrvvning. Football, poker and romance, exciting in themselves, are a pain in the neck when a hard-earned interest has been worked up in any one of them, and one of the others interrupt or obtrude, unless of course the interruption or obtrusion definitely hinders. In which event hokum is not an ally.
When does hokum not obtrude? In The Three Smart Girls the three adolescents, reviving memories of the cute things said and done when
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