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HIS town is full of tourists. Taking advantage of those rates, no doubt. They all want to meet Clark Gable. And go some place where it's fun. "Where do you go -Xt*"5"" for laughs in Hollywood?" I'm asked con
stantly. What's cooking? Well, I'll tell you. Since dullness, such respectable dullness, has thrown a chill over Hollywood that not even the smudge pots can drive away — and some of my best friends are smudge pots, smudgy and deliriously potty — I find that. I can recommend for laughs only one spot in the entire city of cinema : the "Navy Blues" set at Warner Brothers out in the Valley. If you know somebody who knows somebody, you can make the "'Navy Blues" set, and there you'll find fun on a rampage. What with a whole mess of Hollywood comedians knocking their brains out trying to top each others' wisecracks you can well imagine that the set is utterly lacking in rose petals and belles lettres. Emily Post wouldn't like. But you would. It's a blues chaser, deluxe, this set. Shoot the Navy to me. Blues !
Several months ago when Ann Sheridan said all right she wasn't mad with Warner Brothers any more and she'd come back to work again, the jubilant Front Office told the typewriting back office to whip tip something very gay and gala for the Oomph Girl's comeback picture— something in which Ann could wear a bathing suit. (And when Ann saw the bathing suit she said, "This must have been run up by a stenographer — in shorthand.") Now our Annie had just received the vote of the 49 sailors on the submarine Nanvhal as "The Girl With Whom They'd Most Like to be Submerged." So that gave the boys an idea : The Navy, Honolulu, hula skirts, Waikiki Beach, pretty girls. Jack Oakie, Jack Haley, and Jack Carson turned loose, and. they wrote in the script, "for Sheridan's (Please turn to page 64)
Mad and merry, the stars of "Navy Blues" will wow you. Ann Sheridan and Martha Raye, Jack Oakie and beautiful gals — all add up to grand fun. Read our inside story of Hollywood's best current musical with patriotic theme.