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...white man's burden heavy. Biggest problem: Asians tend to act with rigidity and gliding formalism. To fill the part of Sammy Fong, unofficial mayor of Chinatown, Flower Drum's Casting Director Ed Blum finally had to cross the color line and hire Manhattan Comedian Larry Storch. "The part calls for a sharpie," says Blum, "and the Orientals can't play it. Smoothie, yes; sharpie, no." Otherwise, Blum's cast is out of character only to the extent of one Puerto Rican, one Filipino and one Hawaiian...
...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, even breaking Comedian Storch of his New Yorkese. Just about the only time Agent Rivers got off the Oriental beat this season was when Producers Feuer and Martin insisted that they would cast their new musical Whoop-Up only with full-blooded Indians. "I scoured the area," says Rivers. "My God, I had hundreds...
...Zwingli in 1529. and Luther always maintained that when the Christian believer received the host, the bread contained the body of Christ as a glove contains a hand. Luther also stood fast against such other variants of Protestantism as the humanists represented by Erasmus, and the radicals like Nicolaus Storch and Marcus Stubner, who wanted to do away with the apparatus of the church altogether. The ordained minister and the liturgy. Luther maintained, were necessary to the sacraments and the sacraments were necessary to the Christian...
Shower of Stars (Thurs. 8:30 p.m., CBS). That's Life, with Betty Grable, Harry James, Johnnie Ray, Larry Storch...
Angered, one of the lions slammed him to the ground with a great paw. Two other lions began cuffing him while horrified spectators called for help. Hearing the screams, Margarethe Storch, an attendant, crawled into the arena banging two metal shields together...