Word: films
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...conspirators handled it like baddies in a Buster Keaton film. One of them showed up at the Pusan airport with overweight baggage, left behind a suitcase containing an incriminating note in English ("Turn your nose north; your life will be spared"). Another dashed off hysterically at plane time, held up departure long enough to fire off a telegram implicating his brother. But once in the air, the conspirators were professional enough. As the Korean National Airlines plane neared Seoul, they held U.S. civilian pilot, Willis Hobbs, at pistol point. Instead of touching down at Seoul, the twin-engined...
...Harmony of the World, an opera about the astronomer Kepler). Last week two more noteworthy operas held the stage in East Berlin and Naples. Both are by veterans: Slovakian-born Composer Eugen Suchon, 49, and Italian Composer Renzo Rossellini, 50 (sometime music critic and brother of Film Director Roberto Rossellini). Both works are coincidentally and aptly titled The Vortex, but the conflicts they describe are significantly different. While the Czechoslovakian Vortex shows man at war with himself and his dark passions, the Italian Vortex shows man in a death struggle with the steel-cold state...
Died. Al (for Alexander) Lichtman, 69, pioneer film distributor, onetime president of United Artists, vice president of M-G-M and 20th Century-Fox (executive producer of Boys Town, The Wizard of Oz); of a heart attack; in West Los Angeles. Two years ago, ailing from asthma and heart trouble, Hungarian-born Lichtman retired from Fox, holed up in Manhattan's Ritz Tower, quietly went to work on a story which no one wanted. A war novel, it had been kicking around producers' offices for about eight years, was considered too diffuse and sprawling for the screen. Lichtman...
Just when the battle seemed lost, Brigitte found some friends in Pennsylvania's State Supreme Court, which two years ago canceled a state movie censorship act, but left standing the anti-obscenity film statute. The court slapped D.A. Blanc with an injunction requiring him to let the movie be shown until a Philadelphia common pleas court decides this week if it is bad enough to be banned for good. Back in business at week's end, Brigitte was drawing more oglers than ever...
...Violinist Leopold Godowsky Jr.. Dagmar's brother, is co-inventor (with Leopold Mannes) of Kodachrome color film...