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Currently appearing in "All's Fair", the celebrated song stress built up her reputation on the radio, where she has appeared on the Eddie Cantor and Abbott and Costello shows. Another alumna of the Canter program. Dinah Shore, filled this sport at the big Freshman dance last year...
Burlesque is a true American from of entertainment. Its techniques, particularly in comedy, have penetrated and influenced all other fields of entertainment. Driven from burlesque because the strip teasers were making more lucre, such comedians as Abbott and Costello, Bobby Clark, Bert Lahr, and W. C. Fields have introduced their alma mater's well-timed slap-stick comedy technique to musical comedy, the movies, and radio. With such a record to its credit, it is easy to see that there's more to burlesque than meets the eye. We hope the Gaiety Theatre wins a hearing and defeats Commissioner Moss...
...little cock-of-the-walk. Smacked the Herald Tribune: "The work of the Office of Civilian Defense cannot, in fairness to the nation, be left in such hands." Smacked the Mirror: "The Mayor . . . frenziedly advising people to 'be calm,' draws more raucous laughs than Abbott and Costello." Smacked the World-Telegram: "If the Mayor would only cool down, resign his national defense job and devote himself to his full-time duties in City Hall, he would be surprised, we think, by resultant public approval-and calm...
Little Lou Costello, fat & funny, is a great clown. Bud Abbott, skinny & sour, is a first-rate straight man. On their own, the two can be counted on to supply plenty of low-comedy guffaws. But greedy Universal has almost squeezed the last laugh out of them before their first cinema year...
Keep 'Em Flying winds Abbott & Costello round & round with a silly plot about a barnstorming stunt flier (Dick Foran), his rival (William Gargan) and a girl (Carol Bruce). The picture uses a civilian pilot training school for background, some poor songs for vocal relief, and makes noisy, big-mouthed Martha Raye play twins, which is too much of a loud thing...