Back stage he finds an old friend, Windy Smith (Sonny Tufts), who has joined the Navy and Johnny explains that his own application has been refused because he is colour-blind.

In order to prevent his leaving to join the Douglas, Susie submits a suggestion for a show to be produced to aid WAVES recruitment and signs it with Johnny's name.

In this guise she drinks from a spirits flask (actually cold tea) and is seen kissing Windy in order that Johnny will form an entirely wrong impression of Rosemary.

The closing chorus number on stage is "Here Come the WAVES", and after the triumphantly successful show is finished arrangements are made for Johnny and Windy to be flown out to join the U.S.S.

They are ambling along that vein of comedy, with vamped-in music, that Mr. Crosby used to rove, and they have Sonny Tufts and Betty Hutton as convivial companions this time.

Sure, the traveling is nothing like as charming as it was on that last prize-winning tour, but it offers a few attractive vistas and several gaily amusing jolts... "Accentuate the Positive," which is sung with Mr. Tufts (sic), is probably the best of the several Harold Arlen and Johnny Mercer tunes.

Regarding Miss Hutton's dual performance, it should not be mistaken for high art, but it certainly can be commended as very vigorous virtuosity... Paramount, in short, has been generous to the service in every respect.

Interspersed in Crosby's nifty songalogy, Johnny Mercer-Harold Arlen have supplied a set of excellent songs, including a dandy novelty in "Accent-Tchu-ate the Positive"; two corking ballads in "Let's Take the Long Way Home" and "I Promise You," the latter as a duet with Betty Hutton playing the alter ego...'Old Black Magic' is reprised in a delicious rib on Frank Sinatra.

Crosby is cast as the new pash crooner, and his mike-clutching stance, accented by the whinnying dames, leaves no secret as to whom Der Bingle refers.