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...Flower Drum Song (Universal-International), a $4,000,000, 133-minute film version of the Broadway musical by Rodgers and Hammerstein, offers the U.S. moviegoer roughly the same sensation he would get if he sat down with a single pair of chopsticks before a tun of Sook Muy Dahn Faah Tong...
...Flower Drum Song is clearly photographed, and brightly colored. But the songs-except for a charming little villanelle sung by Actress Umeki-don't exactly ring the gong, and Choreographer Hermes Pan has apparently reworked some routines from Chu Chin Chow. Also, moviegoers may be disturbed to find that most of the Chinese characters in the picture are played by actors of various other Oriental extractions. Honest, fellows, they really don't all look alike...
...Flower Beneath the Foot
...home town, a crowd of 5,000 paraded through the town crying "Long Live Our Maharani," paused outside Vyas' house to shout insults; elsewhere, village poets hymned the maharani. She is grimly determined to win, but at the moment her major campaign concern is the garlands and flower petals constantly tossed at her by enthusiastic supporters. Explains she: "I've got terrible hay fever...
Despite the tropical heat, the Zinacantecos drink little water while working. If the men found small purple flowers growing, they might pick one and suck its bitter stem. The juice of the flower helps to allay thirst. But otherwise, the walapoho suffers the fate of any other weed, tumbled over by the hoes into the black earth. Work ended around four in the afternoon: water had to be hauled, and the mules taken care of. One of the men might go hunting with an old muzzle-loading shotgun while others looked for mushrooms...