Could the recent USC scandal have been caused by the children who got into that university thinking it would be like 1930s college musicals? In this one, 29-year-old Sterling Holloway, who's the editor of the student newspaper and 29-year-old Arthur Lake, who's the star varsity pole-vaulter, decide to play a practical joke by rigging the votes for the 'Joe Senior' title so 28-year-old varsity shotputter Lon Chaney Jr. wins it instead of 30-year-old varsity hurdles runner Elliot Nugent. This bollixes up their love lives so that Mary Carlisle and Gigi Parrish swap boyfriends. Perhaps the students whose parents had bribed sports coaches instead of college presidents with 'donations' thought that was the purpose of college.
The academics are not totally ignored. There is one sequence set in a classroom. Nugent and Chaney sing -- with Holloway on the piano -- and the professor shows up for the last ten seconds of this scene.
The formula is varied a bit by making the big ending being about a track-and-field event instead of a football match, so that's nice. Also Betty Mae and Beverly Crane appear as co-eds; their presence, like almost all of their screen appearances, was based on their being identical twins. Director Ray McCarey directs competently as always, and at 65 minutes this Poverty Row feature won't waste your time unpleasantly.