He sets out to recoup by courting and marrying a well-to-do ex-barmaid (vivaciously played by Brenda Bruce), but she proves more than a match for him.
She is one of the 105 hard-drilled men women who swarm the stage singing choruses, gesticulating vivaciously, OH-ing and AH-ing in mechanical unison.
He runs through a crowded subway car vivaciously hugging wary strangers, and interviews feminists who seem annoyed by his insistence that women's brains are smaller than men's.