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Show Our Boys on Fronts Said To Be Hungry for Laughs HOLLYWOOD. A little fun is just about all Johnny Doughboy asks but he gets precious little on the battle front. He'll slog through mud knee deep, munch his field rations with good grace, stick stolidly to the grim business of annihilating Japs and consider his lot better than most if somebody will give him a laugh once in a while. Johnny Marvin, film cowboy singer sing-er and song writer, came home recently re-cently with this story of the American Ameri-can soldier's hunger for entertainment entertain-ment Marvin says he knows. He and Comedian Joe E. Brown spent three months touring the Pacific j war theater. ! "If the folks at heme only realized j how starved our boys are out there for songs and other entertainment they'd surely do much more about it : than they are doing." Marvin de- j clared. j Soldiers have been able to develop j little of their own entertainment in camps, principally because they're I too busy fighting a war. he said, j Then, weather conditions are hard ! on the few musical instruments they I have mostly guitars and fiddles. ' Strings, which deteriorate rapidly, I would be highly welcome contribu- ! tioru through u:e Red Cross, he said. I |