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Outside the secluded stone house near Washington's Rock Creek Park, two "For Sale" signs were spiked forlornly in the lawn. Inside, curious house seekers noted the scarred plaster, peeling paint, grotesquely overstuffed furniture, shabby, faded Oriental rug that had been replaced by a shiny new one during much...
Concrete & Paper Fans. Minoru Yamasaki's $1,172,000 conference building at Wayne University in Detroit is almost too pretty to be great. But it does promise well for the 60 acres of new campus construction that Wayne and Yamasaki hope to add. A Seattle-born Nisei, Yamasaki is...
But Flower Drum Song's main trouble does not lie with its Oriental performers; like most Yellow Perils, this one is a put-up job by a group of all-too scrutable Caucasians. --JULIUS NOVICK
Both Suzie and Flower Drum hired the same speech expert, Professor Simon Mitchneck of Columbia, to turn Oriental inflections into speech that is understandable to American audiences. He is currently working with Japan's Miyoshi Umeki and the rest of the cast of Flower Drum, shaving vowels, changing consonants...
To judge from current plans, producers will be working the Oriental gimmick to death, bringing new East-of-Suez shows to town far into spring. "Damned if I can explain it," says Producer Irene Selznick, one of the few who has yet to find a place in the new Greater...