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Error Two. Five days later, the facts of Thomas Aurelio's nomination were laid on the record: he owed the nomination to a flashy, potent racketeer named Frank Costello; day after he was selected, he had called Costello's private telephone number to swear "undying loyalty...
...hearing in which the State Bar Association tried unsuccessfully to disbar Aurelio, the full story came out. Cocky Racketeer Costello conceded that he had been a bootlegger, rumrunner, slot-machine magnate, betting commissioner, had spent ten months in the workhouse for illegal possession of a gun, had paid no income taxes on his lush rakeoffs for 13 years. He knew almost every big-name gangster of recent history: Al Capone, Lucky Luciano, Dutch Schultz, "Trigger Mike" Cappola. But he added: "I had bundles of real important friends of mine...
Blondie, in the co-feature, "It's A Great Life" has her domestic troubles in the form of one equus caballus. If the directors are willing, why not put Abbott and Costello, the Hardy Family, and Blondie all in one picture to put an end to the long line of screwball productions which that California city has been tossing out in increasing numbers...
...Hollywood's bachelor Congressman, grey-thatched John M. Costello, member of the Military Affairs Committee, flew to the coast with Lieut. General Henry H. Arnold and Britain's Sir John Dill for a quick inspection of aircraft plants. To John Costello the aircraft workers unburdened themselves: they were shocked when they saw the first tax deduction on their paychecks. They did not mind paying now, but how long would this...
...this one, A. & C. are a couple of loony candid cameramen. There are such howls as Costello's emergence from a garbage can during a bank stickup. Says he: "What's a bank got to be stuck up about?" Then there is the uproarious moment when the sheet falls off the stretcher, revealing that Costello is really walking down the street holding before him a pair of crutches with shoes affixed to their ends. The boys' gagmen have apparently been busy with one of the largest card indexes in Hollywood. The picture comes closest to comic originality...