At Stantech College, Rex Lease tries out for football and Marceline Day. Marjorie Kane tries out for Benny Rubin. When his grades drop -- there's nary a professor to be seen -- he's scrubbed from the starting lineup and accidentally puts the team's other good player out of commission right before the big game. He leaves the school in disgrace.
It's another of the innumerable college musicals of the era, one of the plethora that made musicals a drug on the market until Warner Brothers revived the genre in 1933. Director Norman Taurog shoots the movie in natural-looking settings, but dialogue director George Cleveland paces the line readings awkwardly, Rex Lease looks like he's wearing lipstick -- and only about half the songs are worth listening to. Babe Kane has a dynamite song-and-dance routine and Rex Lease croons a romantic ballad pretty well.
It's another of the innumerable college musicals of the era, one of the plethora that made musicals a drug on the market until Warner Brothers revived the genre in 1933. Director Norman Taurog shoots the movie in natural-looking settings, but dialogue director George Cleveland paces the line readings awkwardly, Rex Lease looks like he's wearing lipstick -- and only about half the songs are worth listening to. Babe Kane has a dynamite song-and-dance routine and Rex Lease croons a romantic ballad pretty well.