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and captive audience* are bad for their pictures artistically

and economically.

John Rich, a spokesman for many directors, said he never

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Hollywood By Vernon Scott Hollywood UPI — Directors, the men who pour their souls Into movies, oppose showing new movies on airplanes. Thtf feel that small screens

watches skybome flickers. “Neither does George Stevens and a good many others," Rich said. “And I don’t think the public enjoys airline movies because they're watching a diluted product. “A director spends weeks and months working and waiting for special effects of color and composition only to have it lost on a small screen in black and

white. “It's not fair to the audMMe, and it certainly doesn’t do credit to the director and the other creative people who make pic* tures.” That takes care of the artistic beef, but what about the financial rewards? Rich cited the case of his own new film, “Boeing Boeing,’* a comedy co-staring Jerry Lewis and Tony Curtis. It was released for viewing on airplanes before the world premier. “It amounted to being premiered under the worst possible conditions," Rich complained. “People who ride planes are

Influential opinion makers. If they see n picture under Adverse circumstances it doesn’t produce the proper response. They tell their friends and f&miliei the picture isn't so good, and the potential audience drops fantastically. “This is especially true of comedies. Laughs are always biggest in a theater when there is a circular response. But movies In a plane are like television at home, nobody laughs as

hard.

“How can they? They’ve got plugs in their ears and there are dozens of distractions. Air travelers are always looking out the

window or being served meals. And h6w can a guy concentrate On the little screen when an Attractive stewardess walks up

the aisle.

“I figure a movie makes about 557 per plane trip. The revenue would be two or three times as much if the audience had paid its way into a theater to see the picture.” No Conclusions In Mott Death MOSCOW UPI—A joint So-viet-U.S. autopsy on the body of Newcomb Mott showed that the

young American died of a deep gash in his neck, and the body also bore cuts on the wrists, elbows and abdomen. An American embassy communique following the threehour examination drew no conclusions on Mott’s death. The Russians said Mott, a 27-year-old book salesman from Sheffield, Mass., died Friday after slashing his throat in the washroom of a train taking him to a labor colony to serve out the remainder of an 18-month sentence for illegally entering the Soviet Union. The autopsy was only the first step in the “full and thor. ough Investigation” the U.S. de-

manded into Mott’s death. Air Force Capt. James W. Bizzell, the physician for the embassy, attended the autopsy along with consular official William T. Shinn. Bizzell’s statement on the autopsy said 'a deep laceration of the throat, approximately five inches long, which cut across the windpipe and esophagus, was the apparent cause of Mr. Mott’s death. “There also were multiple lacerations of both of Mr. Mott’s wrists and elbow joints, and on his abdomen and neck," the statement said. “Bio-chemical analyses of specimens have not been com-

pleted,” it said. The embassy spokesman said more information was expected from the Soviets. lie said there was still no indication of what Instrument inflicted ttfe fatal wound. i

Author Dies MIDHURST, England UPI — Kenneth Walker, surgeon and author of the best-selling “Ths Psychology of Sex," died hef* during the weekend at the age of 93.

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