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Because "a rectory with 16 priests is no place for banjo practice," Father Dustin warms up in a flower shop across the street - an arrangement so mutually satisfactory that the florist has sold 300 of the Father's albums since July. Father Dustin humbly attributes this success to an order of cloistered nuns who, "when they get the time, say a prayer for the success of the album. Not many records have that help going for them...
...satire of the Mao regime is being written in China-not the likeliest of propositions-it cannot bear much resemblance to this burlesque by C. Y. Lee, the Chinese-American author of The Flower Drum Song. Lee's view is light, slight and frequently funny, but it is that of an established expatriate; it lacks the edge that defiance and fear give to a work whose author risks arrest. Cripple Mah, Lee's addlepated hero, is protected by his Schweikian stupidity from the dangers of the new people's democratic dictatorship. There is no sense of immediacy...
Soulless Permanents. The cost of buying perishable fresh flowers and the trouble of maintaining them have helped the fake-flower boom. Though plastic blossoms often cost more than real flowers, they rarely have to be replaced, never clipped. Chicago Motivation Researcher Irving S. White insists that people buy artificial flowers because "they are afraid of death. There is nothing so obviously symbolic of death as the wilting away of a flower. Artificial flowers give people a sense of security, a feeling that life and beauty will go on forever...
...Fresh-flower partisans deplore the trend. "Plastic flowers don't have a soul," says Chicago Florist Audie Staup. "Real flowers have a message; plastic ones don't." Adds Edward Goeppner, managing partner of San Francisco's huge Podesta-Baldocchi florist firm: "I sometimes ask a friend who has artificial flowers in his home if he has a stuffed dog, too." Paradoxically, the bogus-blossom boom has not yet cut severely into fresh-flower sales. Explains Goeppner: "Artificial flowers remind one to buy fresh flowers." Nevertheless, most flower shops hedge their bets by stocking the phonies. "We never...
...powerful A Taste of Honey is still on the boards, as are the musicals Camelot (Arthur and the Round Table), Carnival! (a Broadway version of the film Lili), and Irma La Douce (Parisian underworld). From the Pleistocene epoch: Fiorello!, a musical replanting of New York's Little Flower; The Sound of Music, the last and most sentimental work of Rodgers & Hammerstein; and, of course, My Fair Lady, by George Lerner and Bernard Loewe...