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Worte Compileht, "My piangement with Delly Maroko,
The Perfect (American) Woman
T
the THEATRE
Vive Lamour!
of Flagstadt, but setence, in the form of the mike, restores the balance
of an official unveding cero- mony,
When, as a preliminary to me appearance of Miss Lamour, Mr
At the end of about six songs Ted Hay was sent in to raise which were pleasantly India- the leinperature to bolling tinguishable from cach over, point, I felt as nervous for her Miss Lamour was as cool and as if I were a relative or an unruffled as when she first came in. The party was color
agent.
In the dressing room sho well. The hosters had put us must have watched the hands at our case and she was pleased of the clock in their remorseless that we were pleased. progress towards zero hour.
No doubt fellow artists on the bill came to tell her what the auxilence was like had to wish her luck. Probably Val LONDON.
Parnell looked in to give her
■HERE"is_always a na- the benent of his deep enim. tural curiosity to com- At last there came the blaring pare the original with of the band and the wild ap-
the of
Palladium the portrait which
ne- audience as Ted Ray proclaim counts for the dementia ed
advent of Dorothy Americana at the Palladium Lamour, just as a Roman war- when fnmous celluloid rior might have hailed the ap figures resolve themselves pearance of Julius Caesar
the height of a battle. into flesh.
What an ordeal! I remem ber
Miss Betty Hutton hurling Therefore we crities regarded herself on the microphone as it the Arst appearaneo of Miss to save herself from drowning,
as something and as out of breath Dorothy, Lamour
aderman who has run for a
'Robin Hood' Of U.S.A.
Keeps Out Of Trouble
By
B
FREDERICK COOK
were operating
every
IG, bluff, smiling Frank nachin
bar. stationery Costello is a case his mont tory of the way the and cigar sture in New York American underworld big and shot has changed since the resing days of Al Capone.
1 bundfred other cities. sothe $50 000,000 year-then £12,500,000,
*
But a fiery, fearless reformes Scarface Al prided him-
Fiorella 1 Guardr self on the undefined air of galled
beranie mayor of New York terror that went along with and soun put a stop to that. him, the bulging pocket sug- took a sledge hammer to gestive of a couple of guns. machines, and led police raids.
Also LATEST UNIVERSAL INTERNATIONAL NEWS REEL! He loved to be hated.
NEXT CHANGE
Joan FONTAINE
"LETTER FROM
TO-DAY
ONLY.
Louis JOURDAN
AN
UNKNOWN WOMAN”
A Universal-International Picture.
There is nothing of this about Frank Costello, He likes to be liked.
Invitation
the
Costello accented the invita.
The last time I saw him, tion of the Tate Kingfish Huey strolling in Central Park, Be Long to transfer his slot nu locked exactly what he is the chines mure than well-to-do business they
with a nent taste it down
2311, aults.
Police greeting
as a
La
Louisiana. where have continued to guil th: colunge, except in cly of New Orleans, which outlawed them in 1940.
They are a gigantle business. Last March, the Californ Conumission on Organize
Crime, declared
an
official report,
Costello to be
smiled
r passing policeman touched his cap. and returned the salute.
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Gary COOPER
FOR WHOM THE, Ingrid BERGMAN
BELL TOLLS"
IN TECHNICOLOR
· DE CREDOVA - JOSEPH CALLEJA – KATIKA PADRES - FEISKIT SAN 1900
TO-MORROW
Robert
DOUGLAS •
Halan WESCOTT
In
Robert ALDA
"HOMICIDE"
head of a
in £50,000,000
slot-machine syndt-
cate taking year.
There are, of
course, some aspects of mystery about Frank Costello about which he dis-
Of this. £10,0000,000 pale inquiry. His truc the commission, was "spent on courages name and origin, for instance. the bribery of publle ometala Mr throughout the country." Costello made no reply tha
seems probable that ho was born at Cusenza, Italy, in January 1891, and that his name was originally Castello.
He arrived in U.S.A; at the ace of four with his parents, from Naples, and grew up a notably tough street.
111
In his teens he was arrested Twice on charges of assault and robbery, and discharged cach time.
accusation.
Candy bars
COSTELLO aurveys New York.
arent, a lawyer who takes no! uther client,
a real manager, a manicurist, psychiatrist.
We admile that he owns 15 thousands of slet machines.
estalo and
-buss
at
да ол
A
And Just then there occurred one of those happy spontaneous things that help to mako party go. From the top gallery a man's voice shouted What about your sarong?"
up
Quick change MISS LAMOUR looked
and smiled. After all, one - must try to please one's guests. "All right," she said.
quick
Off she went for a
a remarkable change and by coincidence a bevy of chor giru, aided by the band, burst into a Wuila Wulla dance. But it was that kind of party. We just made things up as we went along,
So
"Dottle" (we were on those terms by now) in a shift, if that is the right term.
"You've got nice legs too.
from above. shouted a guest Wos Miss Lamour embarrassed?
on
came
With smile she told him
some other things she
remember Chico Marx # subdued by the experience that he could hardly smile at his Own jokes. "Gosh I was ner- Not a bit. vous, but you've been such a wunnerful, wunnerful audience," that
How often we have listened possessed weren't so bad either to these pleasant,
was going no. It panting The party American artista only needed T. S. Eliot to make words from whose fame encircled the globe it a wow.
Then it was all over and we lustro and dimmed
the had to go home. But by our applause we said that we had had
a lovely time. Our im- maculate hostess, still showing
of
the leszer
the very
Ar stars
henvera.
So cool
AND just then Mirs Lamour no signs of wear or fear and contriving to look dignified came on the stage dressed even in her shift, hoped we'd In a crinoline dress (or some come again, and we said we thing to that effect) which re- would. I almost expected her venied less of her lower ex- to announce that next morning tremilles than Dolly Varden, the lecture soclety wou'd meet Never have I seen such perfect nt 11-30 to hear Professor
was like compostire. She
Ramsbottom of England society hostess who had asked "The Nothingues of Some friends in to tea and wanted to
thing and that Do
Dottle
would nut them completely at
In short, we were under the
case-
Only A matriarchal
ה.
their be in the chair.
on
nation spell of the perfect Amerient what could be
such
as the United States could woman,
ard
have produced Miss Lamour. more perfect than that?
One fet that she could run a
(World copyright-London Express
home and a husband without Serulca)
rufling a hair, and act as chaf
man of the local lecture society
at the same time.
The vast Pollodium shrank
to the proportions of a Cleve- land drawing room. The
hostem was going to sing for us and then we would have re- Crestimments.
Mr Danny Kaye was there. but did the hostess brag about or even indiente to us that She did not. No was present? *Ier husband was there, too. introduce but did Mis Lamour int 17 She did not. Instead she dvanced upon the microphone and told us that she would sing "Moonlight in Manhattan," or some such song from one of her Vma.
Miss Lamour knows all about n microphone and treats it with Her singing proper respect. voice is not as powerful as that:
The minute 201
join
the Courlesu L'lub, we have to meet three tramps a breakdown, and horse with a sprained ankla.”
fandon Kiiver Reinero.
On his tax then he the UP COMES THE ATOM SUB
occupation
list
58 "gambler." If asked for defalls, he points
But, he says. they only sell out that 11. verlain Stulca mints and candy bars, cigar gambling is legal. etter and satt drinks
His one sentence way.
At most,
income. Knowing
By CHAPMAN PINCHER
Approaching by night, with that robot missiles able to carry MERICAN scientists
na atomic bomb could not be some of them might add up in Treasury aftents have Suid
have discovered how to only a "breathing-tube" thow- lights certain combinations of admiringly that Castello, ke
missile within a few minutes The problem then was that wamber if played in a certain all big gamblers, is scrupulous make atom bombes which ing the submarine can launch a built before 1956.
the bulk of the four-ton weight in reporting every penny of lean be carried by pilotless of surfacing.
that there is planes no bigger than a V.1
The missile-code-named The ef the original stom bomb was They are always marked, nothing that Washington would
Loon-is rocketed into the air due to the mechanism used to "toodlebug."
from a watertight hangar than to catch him
on set it off. No alternative method In 1915 he pleaded guilty to "For amusement only," and if like better carrying a pistol and went some unscrupulous shopkeepers sut in a fraudulent tax return
If this secret passes to the deck. Then its own engine at detonating it rermed possible. make gaol for a few months.
gambling devices out of ¿Test is how Al Capone finally
fakes over, and drive it at 450 And no "doodlebug or rocker thenti
will go miles an hour. by offering
Russia, with it prizes for went to gol.)
could be bullt to .carry four tons, certain numbers-"I can't help
strategic and tactical superi- that, en I?"
9ority in atomic warfare.
to
From that time, though he has been arrested often and in- dicted several
has times, he never served a day been convicted.
In gool or
Costello. 55 and comfortably plump, lives in a seven-roomed flat on Central Park, is home from prison magt nights by 10, and doc Costello became connected with most of his business over the various gambling enterprises.
On his release
ן
Junch table in a plushy Avenue hotel.
Park.
Later fie became runner, and soon he laid underpinnings of
rum.
the His taste in clothes runs to fortune conservatism.
now reputed to be one of biggest In America.
the likes 21 hand-painted ties.
What's wrong?
Guided misiles, capable of delivering lightweight atom Costello's friend say that bombs on land targets, сл nothing entertains hum niore now be launched from sub- than to contemplate the frus-marines. trated efforts of the courts to
Russians, The "pin something on him."
U-bon! German Some months RHU,
in the bullding up a when Costello's name was met 250 vessels.
Marris Ederi Justice fluned,
The submarine may then re- submerge, leaving exposed only and the the "breathing-fube" radar masts which are used to guide the bomb to its target.
except that he New York Supreinu Court, which already totals more than of the now atom bomb.
Every
British and
Bootlegger once iss
touches him. He walks to in the papers all the time, but separded as possible targets for capable
a lighter The discovery of detonating mechanlam means that the submarine suddenly becomes the ideal weapon for a surprize atomic attack. The Loon curries only one and
There is no evidence that the of bu a half tons of ordinary high Russians know any detalis helped
are experts,
this 13 explosive. But
little the new mechanism. The prin mebmarine fleet less than the estimated weight ciple of it was discoveret dur- ing South Sea atom-bomb tests In later submarines The Loon from which all foreign olisorvers
replaced by many will be
a rocket were barrel.
Dr Klaus Fuchs learno! In his rivoje life no scandal sold: "I see Costello's name American towns must now be moving faster than sound, and
of being
Inunched nothing about it. I understand, Few Russian while the vessel remains under but the G-men now in Britain every Sunday, He has 1
of his hens the robot fire. never read
while
wish to make certain that no been married to his wife, indicted for anything.
Lawns of importance could be water. Laretta, for 33 years.
attacked this
Experts say that inaccuracies other spy remains free to par why. "What's wrong with la Pictures released by the U.S. in ruding will not be as Im- on the Information.
And, no a precnution, British mon?
If he has done anything Defence Department chow how portant as they were with the wrong.
they why don't
of the an American defence research do the combined master-we pon- V.I nod V.2 berausc something about it?"
misaffe + submarine-guided
enormous area of damage caused staffs have stepped up work on methods of detecUng and sink- And tent still seems to be the atom bomb need net no nearer by an atomie explosion.
than within 100 miles of iin
The British Cabinet's scientifle ing submarines, advisera pald fan target.
In recent years he has ad- have no children. mitted once.
he was a bootlegger
Costello standa
They
high
today big pro
perty owners.
He has no bodyguard. alot maintains + personal
Ile question. pres
-(London Express Serptec)
In 1925 Costello became an among New York's American citizen.
After the repeal of Prohibi- ho turned back to gambling. By 1934 his
tion
NANCY
Wig and Wag
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four years Ago
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