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Flower Drum Song. Chop suey (in the words of one of the show's tunes), routinely but expertly prepared by Chefs Rodgers & Hammerstein. With two admirable fortune cookies named Miyoshi Umeki and Pat Suzuki...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA,TELEVISION,THEATER: Time Listings, Feb. 2, 1959 | 2/2/1959 | See Source »

Your Dec. 22 cover picture is a real charmer arid a real pleasure to behold; moreover, it did justice (as did the article) to the enchanting Miyoshi Umeki and Pat Suzuki. DEBORA H. SNYDER Los Angeles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 12, 1959 | 1/12/1959 | See Source »

Flower Drum Song. A routine but opulent and attractive Oriental excursion by those skillful Occidentals, Rodgers and Hammerstein. With the freshest lotus leaves on Broadway, Singers Miyoshi Umeki and Pat Suzuki...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: Time Listings, Jan. 12, 1959 | 1/12/1959 | See Source »

...Oriental spell extends beyond Miyoshi and Pat. Wilbur, the stern-eyed stage-door guard, feels that the Oriental chorus girls are politer and less brassy than the usual types; the director and the choreographer feel that the whole cast is more disciplined and quicker to learn. Says Oscar Hammerstein: "It's a strange flavor they have. They don't fawn, they don't scrape, they listen carefully. I don't think they're any more intelligent than other people, but I think the intelligence is less obscured by neuroticism." Translates Dick Rodgers: "We have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BROADWAY: The Girls on Grant Avenue | 12/22/1958 | See Source »

...this is a minor irritation, considering that they will all be around New York for a long time-Great White Father and Daddy, Miyoshi, Pat and all the kids-just a big Oriental family beating their flowery drum. Meanwhile, the girls are getting accustomed to New York. Pat is getting vitamin injections for extra energy, and Miyoshi, in a remarkable East-West synthesis, has taken to champagne. "I can't stop drinking it," she says. "It tastes like sake...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BROADWAY: The Girls on Grant Avenue | 12/22/1958 | See Source »

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