Word: moons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...till after World War II that it really came into full bloom. Today Takarazuka is a thriving city of 35,000, and the railway (also serving other suburban stops) carries some 700,000 passengers a day. Two of the four Takarazuka troupes (named Snow. Moon, Flower, Star) stay at home, while the others tour the rest of Japan. Showman Kobayashi, now a multimillionaire, also owns theaters, restaurants, a baseball club and a movie company...
...Portrait of a Girl in Glass, shines with a luminous pity that gives it a lonely merit. From this tale of a childlike drift-and-dream girl, her aggressive mother and restless brother, Williams later fashioned The Glass Menagerie, and the story, like the play, is evocatively moving and moon-haunted. For the rest, One Arm reads too frequently as if the chapters of Psychopathia Sexualis had been raided for TV skits...
...Kleine Teehaus was one of the best. After 100 sold-out performances, The Teahouse of the August Moon was still a smash hit in West Berlin, will move next week to a more commodious theater. Berliners, wearily familiar with occupation armies, were delighted with an American play that deliberately spoofed the U.S. Army's postwar occupation of Okinawa (TIME, Oct. 26, 1953). When Sakini, the raffish Okinawan, declares that "democracy is exhausting," German audiences howl. The boffo line for Berliners comes in the scene where Colonel Purdy announces his determination to bring democracy to the islanders...
During their New York stay the Shah and Queen attended two hit plays. Tea and Sympathy, and The Teahouse of the August Moon, and two musicals, Fanny and Pajama Game, and danced stiffly at the St. Regis Hotel's Maisonette. Then they took off for Washington in President Eisenhower's Super-Constellation. Columbine III. No information on the doctors' findings reached the public...
...glimpse into America's historical past" that will give its young customers all the sensations of starring in a horse opera; and 4) Tomorrowland-a showplace for science, where audiences can peer into a simulated atom furnace or jump aboard a rocket ship and fly to the moon...