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...good their losses is to fix a roulette wheel and break the bank for $228,000. Luckless loser in Hi Diddle Diddle is birdbrained Mrs. Prescott (Billie Burke) who claims she has disposed of the family fortune just as her daughter Janie (Martha Scott) is about to marry a sailor, Sonny Phyffe (Dennis O'Keefe). Father Phyffe (Adolphe Menjou) is the raffish Samaritan deputed to recoup Mrs. Prescott's family fortune by breaking the bank at a gambling casino...
...torch-singing accomplice is Gypsy Rose Lee's little sister, June Havoc. The comedy is also complicated by Cinemactor Menjou's love life and the fact that each new crisis keeps postponing Sailor Phyffe's shore leave until all that is left for his honeymoon is a matter of minutes...
...fact that bluejackets will like Seaporcel is obvious-it eliminates the sailor's perennial occupation of chipping off old paint and brushing on new. Seaporcel keeps its finish almost indefinitely against all kinds of weather, can be cleaned with a damp cloth...
Harvard's V-Men and civilians got into stop this week to start off the new and novel athletic program. The presence of sailor uniforms, an integral part of the whole Harvard V-12 training, no longer occasions any comment. Loss obvious, and loss well known, are the eight chief petty officers, specialists in some phase or other of athletics, who are bolstering the staff of the department...
...Dawn has made only about a dozen inlays for the Navy. But in the near future many cases may echo Dawn's sailor patient who looked in the mirror and cried: "God, I'm happy! Now I can go home...