e., organic foods were now considered unhealthy).Allen's sole sci-fi film was loosely based upon H.G.Wells' rewritten dystopian 1910 novel "The Sleeper Awakes" (based on Wells' own earlier serialization "When the Sleeper Wakes" from 1898-1899)...a time to mourn and a time to dance...He hath made everything beautiful in his time." The little Dear One has the time of her life at the dance - she drinks an ice cream soda from a straw at the fountain.Rose gazes at him, trying o attract a glance while entering the house.Rose quickly persuades Esther to join her and stand on the front porch to look at the boy.Attempting to be non-chalant, both desperately want to be noticed and admired.Unsuccessful in attracting his attention, he is oblivious o them and imperviously wanders inside.Rose thinks: "He's not very neighborly, I must say."They also go inside their house, where they anticipate he evening's events.When Esther reminds Rose of her fateful phone call, stuck-up Rose disdainfully mentions her disinterest in boys before drifting upstairs to wash her hair:My dear, when you get to be my age, you'll find out here are more important things in life than boys." He slips and slides around and ends up falling on the floor as she ries to teach him how to hop-step and turn with a partner - with three hops to the right, three hops to the left, and then a turn: "One, wo, three, one, two, three, turn.The film was advertised with the brooding face of one of the young German recruits sent into World War I.