Word: kabuki
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...dramatic program-ranging from Kabuki plays to slapstick to poetry reading-is broad enough to challenge the resources of any normal theatrical troupe. Yet none of the principal actors of the National Theater of the Deaf utters a word, and only one of them can hear. No matter; the pacing and performance are unmistakably professional, and the critical notices are in the rave category. Currently on a six-week tour of 18 Northeastern cities, the company opened at Manhattan's Hunter College Playhouse last week to tumultuous applause...
Visual Haiku. Signing can be awkward and slow-paced in plays that depend heavily on dialogue, such as Saroyan's The Man with the Heart in the Highlands, which leads off the current show. But the medium is perfectly suited to such stylized theatrical forms as the Kabuki play The Tale of Kasane, which the group performs with the flow and precision of fine ballet. The company's most striking performances are its "recitations" of poetry. Through such simple gestures as twisting her fingers over her heart to show grief, stunning Audree Norton manages to evoke...
Kaftans & Kabuki Slippers. The result has been a quick proliferation of styles that already make the original Scott dress seem like the Model T Ford. Mars Manufacturing Co. of Asheville, N.C., is the nation's leading producer of paper dresses, sells 80,000 a week. From its basic A-line shift ($1.75), the company has expanded its line to include bell-bottom jump suits ($4), evening gowns ($5), aprons ($1.35), and men's vests ($1.99). Sterling Paper Products aims to gross $6,000,000 this year from such items as a $7.50 zebra-print pants suit...
Elisa Daggs, who creates in paper for 60 department stores, including Bonwit Teller and Lord & Taylor, has designed striped kaftans ($7) and Kabuki slippers ($2) as well as specially treated raincoats ($7.50) and bikinis ($4) that can be worn in the water, last for two to three wearings. Formfit Rogers has gone into underwear with a $3 ensemble consisting of bra, petti-skirt and kerchief. Not to be outdone, Hallmark Cards has just marketed a complete paper party kit: a flower-printed shift with matching cups, plates, place mats, napkins, matches and even invitations. Among other strong sellers...
...ready to take off in many directions. He reads "middlebrow" samurai novels (the Japanese equivalent of westerns), and watches with benevolence the careers of his two sons, Ryutaro, 38, an oil-company executive, and Shinji, 34, who works for the Nippon Kokan steel company. To the looks of a Kabuki actor, Sato adds a very calculating eye for his own position and a buoyant sense of balance when it comes to his party...