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amplified pursuit of romance, six or more huskies on the make for Diamond Lil, was not the main sympathetic pursuit. Their common desire was in the dominant sense the menace. Of course, Lil wanted the mission worker but that longing was secondary to keeping the boys who were on the make at bay until she could land her man.
Although girl wants boy as a main pursuit has never carried the heights, it is a good thing with which to start any play off. Bad Girl, for instance, got up steam with boy wants girl but that pursuit quickly concluded in marriage, which as quickly gave way to girl and boy trying to get along in the marriage pen. In The Redheaded Woman girl wanted boy but getting him was merely the door to social recognition.
Many good movies with the pursuit of romance as the main attraction have tried for the higher annual awards, tried subtly, gustily, politely and valiantly but none have made the grade. And we are not overlooking Garbo in Camille ; even though the Garbo has a special talent for draining the tear ducts when romance is being denied. But Camille was not a great movie.
Garbo's sacrifice in The Lady of the Camellias was a noble piece of work but nobility as a sympathy-getter died with George M. Cohan's FlagWaving Finales and was buried with "I'd Rather Be Right."
Why has the pursuit of romance always been subordinated, excessively enlarged and enhanced, treated as a menace or treated for laughs in the really successful movies? We wouldn't dare to know, but there is this conjecture, not without foundation, that marital intimacies flattening the wine of romance, quenching love's earlier fires and mysteries, truly dilutes the thrill and glamour for those who are married and it happens that ever since holy and legal sanction has been invoked in the marital pact close to 85% of the population is married, or has been married or something. Along with that condition we have a strong hunch that the low assay on romance is due to its pursuit being selfish, never really charitable.
In My Man Godfrey there was but one thing openly and actively hindering Godfrey and that was selfishness in its purest form, or girls on the prowl for a man, the Flighty One, the maid and the Vengeful Sis
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