He pretended to be distraught and convinced Merlin to provide a magic spell to get everyone back to Far Far Away, where they could defeat the "really bad man" doing "mean things to good people.There, they hear the scream of enemy shells for the first time.The Germans are already suffering from lack of supplies and food.The raw recruits are greeted by disillusioned, cynically-stoic veterans of the war.Inside a deserted factory, the seasoned old-timers Westhus (Richard Alexander), Detering (Harold Goodwin), and Tjaden (George "Slim" Summerville) meet the "green" soldiers: "Here""s some more.Together in the bluish light of the evening, they sing of their innocent young, adolescent love on the brink of adulthood: "Sixteen Going on Seventeen.The concert""s proceeds will go to "The Motion Picture Relief Fund," a way to help out-of-work actors, as the Master of Ceremonies boasts: "Hollywood never forgets its own.Walsh""s left cheek - and put a gash in it.As they tried to strike it down with a broom, the angry parakeet suddenly burst into flames in mid-air.