Word: noh
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...second play of the evening, The King of The Great Clock Tower, is the shortest and least satisfactory of the three. This selection is from a group of works which Yeats called "plays for dancers," an exceedingly condensed and ritualistic form which owes much to the influence of Japanese Noh drama. At first glance, this play would seem to be ideally suited for the purposes of the tiny Poets' Theatre, since it was written for intimate production before a select audience. But the difficulties of the play, which would probably remain obscure in the best of productions...
...what about non-realistic acting? "No matter what the style is," Strasberg said, "the same capacity of imagination is demanded--even in the most formal theatre, like the Noh drama of Japan. The result must be convincing and believable in any kind of theatre. The two greatest feminine performances I ever saw were given by Duse and Mei Lan-Fang; and the latter was the more notable achievement, for it had to overcome the greater handicaps." (Mei Lan-Fang was the foremost Chinese actor, and head of the Ching-Chung Monastery, who specialized in female impersonations). "In all kinds...
Truckin' Chorus. Impresario Kobayashi originally wrote his own scripts from Japanese fairy tales and familiar Kabuki and Noh plots, got his musicians to adapt traditional music to two-step and waltz rhythms. "I was trying to build a musical bridge between East and West," he says...
...landed behind U.S. lines by North Korean Pilot Noh Keum Suk on Sept. 21 was flown in simulated combat against Sabre jets by Major General Albert Boyd, commander of Wright Air Development Center, by Major "Chuck" Yeager, the first pilot to fly faster than sound, and by Captain Harold E. Collins, who set an official speed record in a Sabre jet. After putting the MIG through its paces, they decided that it 1) has "insufficient stall warning"; 2) has a cramped, uncomfortable cabin with poor heating and ventilation; 3) is hard to control in combat; 4) is "deficient in speed...
...interesting as the captive MIG was the chubby North Korean pilot who flew it in to win General Mark Clark's $100,000 reward. Soon to be reunited with his mother, who fled North Korea months ago, and assured of asylum in the U.S., Senior Flight Lieut. Noh Keum Suk told air intelligence officers that the Communists had been busily bringing MIGs from Manchuria into North Korea ever since mid-August. Lieut. Noh said that he himself had seen at least 80 partially crated jets rolling south on flatcars. "We made the armistice only to improve our military position...