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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...
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...
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...
...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...
...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...