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Ching Ling Foo, "Court Conjurer to the Empress of China," wowed Western audiences when he toured the U.S. at the turn of the century. Now American Magician Mark Wilson, whose thaumaturgical fame dates from his days as star of TV's The Magic Land of Alla Kazam in the '60s, is seeking to balance the trade in his trade by taking his bag of tricks to China. While visiting the People's Republic to arrange performances there next fall, Wilson conjured up big crowds with small, impromptu gigs in which he would make white penknives turn black...
Third World students at Harvard continually feel the effects of institutional racism. The appointment of Arnold C. Harberger to the directorship of the Harvard Institute of International Development, the Hasty Pudding Theatrical's racist stereotype Edgar Foo Yung character, The Harvard Crimson's photograph of two Black men behind superimposed bars, are three recent examples. The explanation or justification for all of these incidents has been that the racism was not intentional and/or relevant to the issue...
...Harvard/Radcliffe Asian American Association protests the continued parading of racial stereotypes in the play. We hope the general student body will seriously consider the causes and implications behind laughter directed at Ed Foo Yung and join us in our attempt to eliminate such unnecessary racial humor. The Harvard/Radcliffe Asian American Association
Hasty Pudding Theatricals regrets that members of our audience have been offended by the character of Edgar Foo Yung in A Little Knife Music. The Hasty Pudding Show is intended to be purely funny and enjoyable for the audience. If any member of the audience leaves the show with a bad feeling, we view that as a failure on our part...
Pudding characters are designed to be completely unbelievable. In no way can any character in the show be likened to any individual living or dead. The humor of the show derives from ludicrous characterizations at which the audience can laugh without feeling insulted. Edgar Foo Yung is such a character. He bears no resemblance to any Asian person past or present. He is designed to poke fun at an absurd 19th century stereotype. This is what the Mikado, which played this fall at the Agassiz, has been doing on a much larger scale for years. Both shows attempt to make...