Word: emperor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Communists, whose leader, Sanzo Nosaka, recently returned to Japan after a 16-year exile in Russia and China. A shrewd, realistic politician, Nosaka immediately set about to reconcile Communists, Social Democrats, and other leftist groups in a united front. He persuaded doctrinaire Communists to drop their agitation against the Emperor system...
Real hero of Lute Song is famed, all-too-infrequently busy Scene Designer Robert Edmond Jones (Emperor Jones, Green Pastures), whose sets and costumes are often things of splendor. They tremendously enhance the movement as well as the looks of the play-the wedding and burial scenes, the exotic dances, a captivating Imperial March. The best of Composer Scott's incidental music has color also, and one or two of the little songs he has written for Mary Martin have a reedy charm. Actress Martin, straying far from the My Heart Belongs to Daddy sort of singing that made...
...Emperor had been a little careless with his keynote poem...
...melancholy 1946 the Emperor took more care in setting the theme-"Snow on the Pine...
Likeliest interpretation: the Emperor was exhorting susceptible Japanese not to "change color" by aping Western ways. Witty Carol Bache (who knows her Japan after 14 years'in the U.S. Embassy at Tokyo) offered a paraphrase un-Japanese in its directness...