Word: films
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Hope's gags, some carried daily by I.N.S. under his byline, drew laughs from an audience of 300 at the U.S. Embassy residence, where a Russian camera crew of 23 filmed his monologue for next month's TV show. But the Russian-who put censors on his film and will have their embassy go over it again in the U.S.- were miffed at some of the cracks, notably when Hope said that he had seen "lots of TV aerials in Moscow but no sets." To Hope's quip that "the Russians are so proud of their Sputniks...
Died. Don Hartman, 57, independent film producer (Desire Under the Elms), onetime (1951-56) production chief at Paramount Pictures Corp.; of a heart attack; in Palm Springs, Calif...
Automatic Cameras. To spur recession-minded buyers, Bell & Howell brought out nine new camera products months ahead of schedule. Items: the 8-mm. Auto Load, a home movie projector that automatically threads the film; four cheaper ($99.95 to $159.95) versions of two previous "electric eye" 8-mm. movie cameras, which automatically adjust the lens to the right light...
...husband on his flight to New York last weekend. Bound for a Friars Club dinner honoring him as the showman of the year, Todd took off from Burbank in his twelve-passenger Lockheed Lodestar with Pilot William Verner, 45, Copilot Tom Barclay, 34. and Art Cohn, 49, a film scriptwriter and biographer who was writing The First Nine Lives of Mike Todd. Over the badlands of the Zuni Indian country west of Albuquerque, the twin-engined Lucky Liz was caught in a fast-moving storm. One of the pilots radioed for permission to climb because of icing, got it, radioed...
...Hire. In Glen Burnie, Md., Loren Staples, 4, watched film funnies on TV for a while, then hurried off to a bedroom, climbed a chair, got daddy's pistol and, returning to the TV show, pumped a .38-caliber slug into...