Imagine the Rockettes filing into New Lecture Hall-Harvard Stadium transformed into an Aztec hot dog stand--a football team which pulls the line out of the game because they get in the road of the backs--and you have Pottawatomic University at stop Gap, New Mexico, the cultural center of our great south-West. This is the setting of George Abbot's play, which--amply supplied with Hart-Rodgers songs, oh-so-pretty coeds, and nearly half the gags good for a laugh--is well worth seeing.
It happens that the All-American, All-Ivy backfield come to Pottawatomie as bodyguard (with strict hands-off contract) for Lucille Ball, the hardest woman to handle since Lucretia Borgia. She and Frances Langford carry the torch songs while P. U., playing against Columbia, Pitt, and even Cornell, becomes the highest team in America in points scored--for and against. Fourth Horseman Desi Arnaz, an argentine, prairie wolf, shows possibilities of becoming the greatest threat to American womanhood since the fourteen-day diet. And Harvard's quarterback, Eddie Bracken, (who knocked down more passes in 1939 than any American except Ginger Rogers) does the Crimson proud.
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