Word: asano
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Romance flowers for Mr. Asano and Mrs. Jacoby on board ship for Japan. A grieving widower, he has lost a daughter at Hiroshima; she, a son fighting the Japanese. What seems to make Mrs. Jacoby irresistible to Mr. Asano is that she keeps dropping magazines and mothers his cold with Smith Bros, cough drops. The couple soon let woebegones be woebegones, but Mrs. Jacoby's daughter and diplomat son-in-law plant cacti in the path of true love. Only at play's end is Mrs. Jacoby set to make "kosher sukiyaki" her dish of life...
Since the Japanese have fewer jokes than the Jews in Playwright Spigelgass's accounting, Sir Cedric's poker-spined Mr. Asano is doubly inscrutable. He cuts the sweet wine of Actress Berg's sentimentalities by being...