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...Britain, where women are a common sight, eleven male stars (Cinemactors Hope, Crosby, Tracy, Cagney, Gable, Bogart, Abbott & Costello, Rooney, Grant, Kaye) are as popular as any female. In Iceland, oddly enough, five males vie with Miss Grable...
P.A.C.'s record to date in its few tries at the polls has been up & down. Its strength was suddenly dramatized by the defeat or abdication of Congressmen Joe Starnes, John Costello and Martin Dies-all from the South, where P.A.C. is least powerful. But Congressmen John Rankin and Gene Cox, also from the South, handily won renomination despite P.A.C., and their colleagues in the House generally breathed a little easier...
...Hollywood last week Democrat John M. Costello, no friend of union labor but an able legislator, went down to defeat in the California primaries. He was the third member of the Dies Committee to be eliminated in four weeks. Crowed a California C.I.O. newspaper: "The Dies Committee scoreboard today read: 3 down...
Actually, the Political Action Committee (P.A.C.) was being given too much credit. John Costello was beaten largely by tough-minded Teamster Dave Beck's A. F. of L. machine, which makes the P.A.C. look like innocent little Baptist truants about to squander their collection money on ice cream sodas. (West Coast Teamster leaders study precinct records: any member who fails to vote loses his union membership, which means losing...
...dramatic purposes Jack Norworth and Nora Bayes are pitted against a wholly fictitious archenemy named Costello (Robert Shayne), who spends most of his time buying up vaudeville theaters in which the team might otherwise appear. In real life they had no such trouble. The Norworths sing the new Thank You for the Dance in an empty theater, to an imaginary audience, get the idea for their title hit on a moonlit country buggy ride. In real life Jack Norworth dreamed up Harvest Moon in a Manhattan subway train. Just as fictitiously, Nora tries to save Jack's career...