Word: flowerings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Flower Drum Song. East meets West, but Broadway takes over both in this run-of-the-pagoda musical by Rodgers & Hammerstein...
...forming picturesque groupings and dissolving them again, in doing all sorts of unnecessary busy-work. Mr. McNamara especially has been induced, or at least allowed, to pace and fidget and mug past the point of caricature. Synge's purplest prose is as natural and spontaneous as a wild flower, but Mr. Gistirak has tried to manure it with shovelfuls of staginess...
...bettered the New York Times's description of James Fisk Jr.: "First in war, first in peace and first in the pockets of his countrymen." Financier Fisk sacrificed the flower of his youth to selling mildewed blankets to the Union Army and smuggling Confederate cotton into the mills of his native Vermont. When peace came, he was rich enough to buy a directorship in the Erie Railroad-and so accelerated the decay of that calamitous line that Erie passengers felt safer "going over Niagara in a barrel." Fisk was a mere 36 when he died; yet, as a swindler...
...Flower Drum Song. A routine but expertly guided tour, conducted by Rodgers & Hammerstein, of San Francisco's Chinatown...
...Flower Drum Song. A routine but expertly guided tour, conducted by Rodgers and Hammerstein, of San Francisco's Chinatown. Among the three-star sights: Singers Miyoshi Umeki and Pat Suzuki...