A Dança da Primavera

30-year-old Lew Ayres and 31-year-old Burgess Meredith are planning a two-year trip to Russia. I suppose I should mention they are about to graduate. Ayres is going to miss the Spring Dance with steady girlfriend Maureen O'Sullivan, but says she'll realize he's gone when he doesn't show up. The girls at the local lady's college -- who range in age from 19 to 33 -- plot how to get him to stay in the US and marry Miss O'Sullivan.

People staying in college well past four years aside (or maybe they didn't matriculate very young), it's a sweet, frothy little comedy from a play by Yale graduate Philip Barry. Under the direction of S. Sylvan Simon, it's played for laughs, and succeeds in raising a good smile or two, concerned, as it is, with people who should be adults by this point, but haven't had the necessity of doing so. Looking back, 1938 seems a little late for this sort of tomfoolery, but unlike the college shows of the 1920s, there are one or two scenes in an actual classroom. With Ruth Hussey, Ann Morriss, Joyce Compton, Julie Bishop, and Sterling Holloway.