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Scouting for the Khan. In a season when all the streets of Manhattan's theater section seem eastbound,* assembling this chorus line took on a scope that recalled nothing less than the recruitment of Kublai Khan's harem. Like the Great Khan's emissaries-who, Marco Polo reported, graded their finds "at 16, 17 and 18 or more carats, according to the greater or lesser degree of beauty"-Rodgers and Hammerstein operatives went to work in Hong Kong, Paris, London, San Francisco, Chicago and New York. Director Gene Kelly and Choreographer Carol Haney scoured theaters, nightclubs...
Study in Contrasts. Wherever they come from, all the girls would get a high Kublai Khan rating. Oddly enough, perhaps the easiest of all recruiting jobs involved the 20-carat stars. Early last spring Rodgers saw Pat Suzuki on Jack Paar's television show and recognized her right away as his stripper, Linda Low. After Miyoshi's Oscar-winning performance in the movie Sayonara, both Rodgers and Hammerstein realized that Mei Li's lines had been written for no one else...
...ejecting tubes over his shoulder with the cyclic action of a machine gun, until he finally slowed down, devoted the last 20 minutes to adding only a touch of paint here and there. Total elapsed time: no minutes. Title: The Battle of Hakata (A.D. 1281, when the Japanese defeated Kublai Khan...
...North Sea flowed around Kublai's Green Mount (also called the Hill of Ten Thousand Years), converted it into an island serenely adorned by the White Pagoda, the Pavilion of Perpetual Southern Melodies, the Tower of Felicitous Skies, Wisdom's Fragrant Terrace...
Beyond this serene-looking inner box throbs the metropolitan life of Peking itself. Leading off from Kublai's broad roads, which checkerboard the city, are warrens of hutungs, narrow lanes of deep dust or mud lined by windowless walls of inward-facing houses, and named in keeping with their history: Ditch of a Thousand People, Dog's Neck Lane, Human Hair Lane, Chase the Thief Lane...