Charming is a much overworked little word, but it is nevertheless the most fitting description of "Our Hearts Were Young and Gay." It is definitely a charming picture. Paramount has clothed the Emily Kimbrough-Cornelia Skinner biography with a trail little plot, but no one seems to mind very much.

Just for the record, "Our Hearts" is the tale of two college girls who follow an unsuspecting gridiron here to Europe. Cornella has a crush on the poor lad and conspires with Emily to bring herself to his attention. This needless to say, the girls accomplish rather nicely.

By the end of the last reel, Cornelia and her mastodan are quite chummy, though no one in the audience is told what, if any, their future plans may be. But, as we have said before, no one really cares very much anyway.

Diana Lynn and Gail Russell seem to lit the parts of Emily and Cornella as well as any two people could. Miss Lynn is pretty and seems hairbrained enough to do and say the things Miss Skinner claims Emily did and said.

In coping with a maze of inconceivably funny situations, the two young leading Indies preserve all the delightful style that made the book a best seller. They manage somehow to seem perfectly at home smuggling a case of measles into England or sleeping on the tower of Notre Dame. To describe further their troubles would be to give the picture away. "Our Hearts" is not a memorable production but is well worth and evening.