Summary
A dizzying exploration of matrimonial power shifts, Noel M. Smith’s Crying for Love centers on the hapless Eddie, whose persistent courtship of an Amazonian figure only yields fruit through a fortuitous betrayal. The protagonist’s victory is catalyzed by the bride’s discovery of her former fiancé’s philandering with a flapper—a discovery that triggers a visceral, slapstick upheaval. What follows is a subversion of domestic tranquility; the bride, portrayed with tectonic authority by Blanche Payson, initiates a reign of physical dominance, beginning with a chaotic wedding-day clearance and extending to a honeymoon defined by the unceremonious ejection of her groom from a moving flivver. The narrative reaches its crescendo at a housewarming event where Eddie, pushed to the brink of emasculation, resorts to a pharmaceutical intervention. Consuming 'strength-giving pills' that act as a chemical deus ex machina, he reclaims the patriarchal throne through a display of hyperbolic force, culminating in the bride’s literal defenestration from a three-story height. It is a frantic, grotesque ballet of gender roles and physical comedy.
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After many turn-downs, Eddie finally succeeds in winning this Amazon for his bride after she discovers her former fiance flirting with a flapper on his way to the Amazon's home for the wedding. After the bride has flattened everyone in the place for no reason at all the pair depart on their honeymoon in a flivver, from which she playfully or otherwise tosses hubby. Later at a house warming this dainty bride continues to humiliate hubby until he is tipped off to some strength-giving pills, which he swallows and then assumes command of the situation. He becomes the real boss of the household as the wife takes a three-story dive through the window.
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