成績が小学生からずっとオールＡで名前も栄一郎だから、皆から『エーちゃん』と呼ばれている丸尾栄一郎・１５歳。高校に入学してからも何一つ疑問を抱かずに規則正しい学園生活を送っていたが、隣のクラスの鷹崎奈津と知り合ったことからリズムが狂いだす。放課後、貸したノートを取り戻すためナツを追った先はテニスクラブだった。真剣にテニスをしている彼女を見て思わずノートを取りだし記録する。それまでテニスに全く縁のなかったエーちゃんだったが、それ以来、テニスに魅了されることになる。基本の反復練習と彼の作ったエーちゃんノートを駆使して強豪たちに挑んでいくエーちゃん。やがて、将来プロテニスプレイヤーを目指すことになる。
Leslie Howard certainly had a star quality about him, and he demonstrates that with aplomb here, but the story is just, well, wet... He is caught in a seemingly genuine love triangle between "Daisy" (Ann Harding") and wife "Cecelia" (Myrna Loy) and spends much of the time, aided ably by permanently sozzled butler "Red" (William Gargan) vacillating - occasionally comically - as he treads the fine line between the pair of them. The performances and writing are fine, nothing more, but I just found the story wore way too thin, too quickly - and "Daisy", frankly, deserved far better than to be involved at all... What it does seem to comment upon, surprisingly for 1932, is an acceptability from all concerned - including, to a certain extent from the families, that this arrangement though frustrating, isn't wrong. The film shows an enlightening degree of non-judgmentalism that I found quite refreshing.
