Service Stripes

In this short service comedy, Joe Penner flirts with Joan Carter Waddell and gets thrown in the brig.

It's a typical assortment of service comedy gags performed by Penner and others, which I find more annoying than funny. Penner was a comic who prospered on the radio, thanks to verbal shticks like a funny voice and catchphrases like "Wanna buy a duck?" Here he plays a dim-witted fellow who talks out of the side of his mouth and comments on everything, finishing with a "yuck-yuck" laugh.

Miss Waddell was a fixture of Broadway; her biggest hit was THE LITTLE SHOW, which headlined Fred Allen. Miss Carter danced and sang in that show. Here she performs "I've Got My Eye on You" while dressed in a spangly bustiere.