Daughters are encouraged by heir parents to entice and snare the handsome, eligible bachelor as a husband by dressing in provocative shorts or a peek-a-boo.William G."Bill" Smollett (Monty Woolley).The Hilton family also entertained a frequent visitor and detached observer - family friend and bachelor Navy Lieutenant Commander Anthony "Tony" Willett (Joseph Cotten), who had always been in love with Anne.The guns were returned and replaced in the armory, where Mandemus requested that his home for 27 years be destroyed to prevent a repeat of what had transpired...not for the faint-hearted." Each school would select a single student to represent them, and "eternal glory" awaited the student who won the tournament, by surviving three "extremely dangerous" tasks.