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Like many an actress whose career has slumped, Evelyn Rudie, 9, known to most folks as TV's brattish Eloise, was in dire need of some new headlines. Next thing that Los Angeles cops knew, Evelyn was reported by her seemingly distraught parents to be missing. Shortly after the police were called, American Airlines announced Evelyn among the "celebrities" on an early morning jet flight from Los Angeles to Baltimore's Friendship International Airport. Upon landing (and being promptly corralled by a family friend), Evelyn calmly hinted that she had done it all for publicity, paid her fare (with a $50 bill and four $20 bills) by looting her own piggy banks. At week's end, Los Angeles cops were wondering whether unemployed Actress Rudie's parents had masterminded Evelyn's flight into the front pages, then turned in a phony police report (a misdemeanor that could get them a $500 fine, six months in jail, or both).
Taking his sports car up on a Manhattan garage elevator, British-born Actor Martyn (Visit to a Small Planet) Green, 60, long a beloved star of Gilbert and Sullivan operettas in London's wide-touring D'Oyly Carte company, had his left leg caught between the rising platform and the elevator shaft. Given morphine by a young intern who soon arrived in an ambulance, Baritone Green, conscious all the time, grittily consented to an immediate amputation of the mangled leg then and there. At week's end he was in "fair" condition, but his twinkle-toed days were history.