Word: shangri
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Asia, more and more Americans are searching out lightly traveled Shangri-Las, and are willing to trade off some comfort for new romance. After hundreds of years of isolation in the Himalayas, Nepal's Katmandu is opening up to venturesome tourists. Now peaceful, Viet Nam next month will open a hunting bureau in Saigon, with safari guides, rifles and elephants for hire. Package price for hunting panther, tiger, elephant, buffalo, bear: $8 a day. In all, 115,000 Americans will travel in the Pacific-a gain of 15% over last year...
LAOS Conquest by Negotiation Life in Shangri-La was never quite so dreamlike as life in Laos since that country became an independent nation 2½ years ago. With the French no longer directing its political life, the unwarlike people of this Buddhist kingdom in the interior of the Indochinese peninsula relapsed into their old hedonist ways. Though Laos is practically roadless, well-to-do Laotians bought Mercedes cars and Italian scooters (with U.S. and French aid), built showy riverside houses, idled their days away in the pagoda gardens listening to Panpipe music and watching the graceful Thai dances...
...Shangri-La (based on James Hilton's novel Lost Horizon; music by Harry Warren; book and lyrics by James Hilton, Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee) is not what it was under Hilton management. It was obviously tempting to make a musical of James Hilton's famous story about plane-wrecked Occidentals discovering an Asian Utopia where life is serene, desires are moderate, people mellow. But there is possibly something more than just comic about using a Broadway musical to portray serenity and moderation. There is something truly misguided: a Broadway musical is one of the very...
Visually there can be no complaints about Shangri-La. Peter Larkin's sets have beauty, atmosphere, even-by musicome-dy standards-moderation; and Irene Sharaff offers charmingly exotic and ceremonial costumes. But what is most impressive about the evening could be almost as well conveyed in a stereopticon show. Harry Warren's music is commonplace. What action there is, however momentarily piquant, soon languishes. Hard though the show tries to be cheerful, philosophy is always breaking in, and no sooner does philosophy take its ease than show business bangs loudly on the door. For all Shirley Yamaguchi...
...then serenity-in some translations called sluggishness-reasserts itself: the High Lama prates mellowly of Shangri-La's past, Dennis King stands around expertly at a loss, and the desire for controlled frenzy mounts...