Word: umeko
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...Butterfly without a Butterfly is hopelessly disabled: matters were not helped any by Thomas Hayward's inelegant Pinkerton and Umeko Shindo's wobbly Suzuki. Only John Reardon, the Sharpless, did full justice to his music: he sang with richness and strength, and his diction was a lesson to the rest of the cast, though it occasionally uncovered in the English translation such painful bits as: "Oh joyous, happy days of carefree youth...
...Miss Kimiko." How far things had gone was illustrated by a telephone conversation on Nov. 27 between Kurusu and Kumaicho Yamamoto, head of the American section of the Jap Foreign Office. The two men used a voice code in which "Miss Umeko" referred to Secretary Hull and "Miss Kimiko" to President Roosevelt. The term "matrimonial question" meant the negotiations in Washington, and talk of childbirth meant that a crisis was at hand. All this was clear to the U.S. agents who had tapped the Japs' wires; the U.S., in peace as well as war, had all the Jap signal...
Kurusu: There wasn't much that was different from what Miss Umeko said yesterday. . . . Does it seem as if a child will be born...
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