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...marry his girl Helen (he called her "Big Eyes"), put away some home-cooked meals. Like tens of thousands of others, Cooper never made it. Radioman on a Navy torpedo plane, he was shot down in the Pacific by the Japs, drifted for "weeks alone on a rubber raft. More than a month later a Navy vessel found the frail craft with Cooper's body and on paper leaves in his wallet a record of what a kid thinks about as he dies slowly and painfully. Wrote Cooper after three weeks adrift...
...Diego, I Love You (Universal), a cheerfully goofy little picture about a bad inventor who made good, is almost as funny as it is foolish. Much of it involves the efforts of lush Louise Allbritton to sell Father Edward Everett Horton's improved life-raft to Executive Jon Hall, "the most girl-shy millionaire in Who's Who." In the course of convincing him that she loves him for himself alone, she leads Mr. Hall through some unusually footloose footage. She gets him ensnarled in a brawl in a low-life barbershop which specializes in reconditioning shiners...
Aside from Mr. Keaton and the delectable bears, San Diego's level is well indicated by the bitter moment in which Millionaire Hall informs Miss Allbritton that of her father's raft the only part which survived testing was the chewing-gum with which she had patched it; or Eric Blore's unctuous self-introduction to his new employer: "You may call me Nelson." To which Mr. Horton earnestly replies, in the line-of-the-month...
...Combat Rations and Field Rationing Procedure" provided a title for another demonstration, and a meal for the students, as Major John W. Brower, Commandant of the Cooks and Bakers School, displayed samples of A, B, C, D, K, Mountain, Jungle, Bail-out, and Life-raft rations. Major Brower and his assistant, Lt. H. C. Gleve, also showed many types of dehydrated foods. Sgt. Edward Mortimer's field kitchen truck supplied, as a concluding feature, a complete supper for all students, which was enjoyed by all, despite Major Brower's announcement that it had been made entirely from dehydrated foods...
There is, of course, a plot. The plot represents a woman who is all bet up on having a baby and a man who is palpitating to bring Holywood entertainment to OUR BOYS. The man (George Raft) gets killed and the woman (Miss Zorina) forgets about the brat and becomes a camp-to-camp crusader for the higher life (as portrayed by Mr. Fields...