Word: costelloism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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International's good fortune began when the Government ordered the industry to give up the monopolistic practice of block booking (TIME, June 24). Shorn of the chance to peddle its potboiling B pictures, Universal was left with only two A-makers, Deanna Durbin and Abbott & Costello, to service its outlets...
...millions probably knew him as Jack Benny's English butler, train announcer, parrot, French violin teacher and news reporter; as Burns & Allen's melancholy postman; as Judy Canova's Pedro, Salesman Roscoe Wortle and a chronic hiccougher; as Bob Hope's "Private Snafu"; as Abbott & Costello's Scotsman...
...More Children. By clinging tightly to its determinedly loyal following, O'Connor, Moffatt's has managed to pay off most of the debt from its new building, even to prosper with the tide of Bay Area war money. But ruddy, O'C.M. President Joseph V. Costello, who knew lean days in prewar San Francisco, decided to sell out. Reason: in his 60s, President Costello has only one nephew who is interested in the business. Said a competitor: "This was a good time to sell. It's just one of those deals where the family finally runs...
...little life into what could have been a plotless horror a la Abbott and Costello, the producers have added murder and mystery to provide a spine for an otherwise invertebrate cinema. When flea trainer Allen is left an inheritance of five chairs, which he sells, and then finds that one of them has a fortune tucked away inside, there begins a routine chase involving the usual fusillade of shots and usual ending . . . Fred with a fistful of greenbacks...
Model Behavior. In Manhattan, Detective James Costello, patrolling Broadway in the small hours, noticed a shattered show window displaying four dummies, three nude, one clothed. When the clothed dummy twitched, Detective Costello reached in and arrested one Albert Gibson for burglary...