Arnold Stang is credited as Shorty. but the voice is clearly Jack Mercer's. Mercer had previously played the character in "Happy Birthdaze."
Shorty's girlfriend is Dorothy Lamour, whose actual pictures hang next to his hammock, clashing with the cartoon world. The Hollywood references continue when Shorty romances Olive Oyl: he imitates Charles Boyer in Algiers (1938) and throws in a little Maurice Chevalier into the impression.
Wartime romances and marriages were very common at the time of this short, so cinema audiences would have appreciated the home front humor.
The kitchen appliances Olive is seen using were state of the at the time. The postwar years would see the introduction of new electric and gas models. And the curious round tub in Olive's kitchen is an old fashioned washing machine with an attached clothes wringer.