Word: costelloism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Helene Costello, cinema star of the silents, sister of Dolores, filed a petition in bankruptcy in Los Angeles. Liabilities: $2,758. Assets...
Columbia University's College of Physicians & Surgeons announced a new scholarship fund of $7,000 last week: in honor of its Doorman Charles Costello and the late George Peters, coatroom attendant. George and Charlie both went to work at P. & S. in 1898. They knew every student who ever marched through the doors, kept track of their whereabouts after they graduated. At an alumni dinner three years ago, Charlie greeted by name every member of the class of 1915. Once, said Dr. Louis Casamajor, chairman of the scholarship committee, he heard George mumbling discontentedly at his work. When asked...
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...