Word: oscars
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...would get a high Kublai Khan rating. Oddly enough, perhaps the easiest of all recruiting jobs involved the 20-carat stars. Early last spring Rodgers saw Pat Suzuki on Jack Paar's television show and recognized her right away as his stripper, Linda Low. After Miyoshi's Oscar-winning performance in the movie Sayonara, both Rodgers and Hammerstein realized that Mei Li's lines had been written for no one else...
...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...
...there is always a saving grace of humor or taste, or at least professionalism. As their own producers, they ruthlessly cut their favorite songs or scenes if they detect that alarming rustle of inattention among spectators. "What I like about R. & H.," says General Stage Manager Jimmy Hammerstein, Oscar's No. 2 son, "is that they're conditioned to what works. If it works, they keep it in; if it doesn't, they scrap it. They listen with real objective ears...
...observer who doubts the efficacy of breaking down the tutorial luncheons into smaller units is Oscar Handlin, professor of history and a former chairman of the Committee on History and Literature. Handlin feels that the trouble with History and Lit is something much more basic than size...
Born on a Tennessee farm, Oscar lives with his family in the section of Indianapolis known as the Dust Bowl, followed in the footsteps of his basketball-playing brothers Bailey and Henry (Bailey played with the Harlem Globetrotters). Cincinnatti fans fear the Big O may turn pro after this season, but Robertson insists he will play his senior year for the Bearcats. Adds his mother fiercely: "The pros can't touch him. I'll have something to say about that. He's going to finish school first...