New Play in Manhatten

The Happy Days (by Claude-Andre Puget, produced by Raphael & Robert Hakim). This fragile study of French adolescence was popular in Paris before the city grew grey under Adolf Hitler. Adapter Zoe Akins has warily shifted the story to an island on the St. Lawrence River, but it seems to take place on a river, and in a time, of memory.

It tells how the calf loves of a group of youngsters are upset by the accidental visit of a magnetic aviator. His presence brings one maiden (Diana Barrymore) close to mature desire, sends another fanciful virgin (Joan Tetzel) out on an attempt at suicide, stirs up puppyish rages in the young brothers of the two. Undoubtedly the delicately written play is not at fault if it and adolescent trials nowadays seem somewhat irrelevant.

In her second Broadway appearance (her first was in last autumn's flop, The Romantic Mr. Dickens), sultry, handsome Diana Barrymore, daughter of The Profile and his second wife, Poetess Michael Strange, gives unmistakable signs of dramatic breeding, if not of dramatic royalty.

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