Bridesmaid Babs

There he is, folks. You laughed with him when he played the Marine in the movie Wake Island, and soon you'll see him in two years before the mast. He's Hollywood's magnificent mug. Okay, call me a mug. But remember, looks ain't everything.

I may not have water pigeons faced, but I've got pigeons toes. Ha ha ha. The American Meat Institute presents William Bandic's In the Life of Riley. The Meat People of America, providing a great food for a great nation.

During this Thanksgiving season, there's one thing more America can be thankful for. Her farmers have produced the biggest corn crop on record. More than three billion bushels. Much of that corn will be fed to meat animals, and that means meat on your table during 1945.

And now, on behalf of all those engaged in supplying meat to the nation, the American Meat Institute presents the life of Riley. Human speech is what distinguishes man from the lower animals. It is also what gets men into trouble, especially when the man is Chester A. Riley, late of Brooklyn, now a war worker in California.

And the trouble is brewing right now in the Riley kitchen. Oh, mother, please say I can go. Well, babes, I don't see any harm in it myself, but if your father says no, that's all there is to it.

Well, I'll tell you. After all, I'm 16. I'm going to go to 16. She doesn't have a child anymore. And if her very best friend's getting married now, so to be bridesmaid at a military wedding, how does it look if a girl has to write back and say her father won't let her out of his