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Actor Ryan is smooth and businesslike, and Stack is competent. Next to the view, though, the biggest delight is Japan's picture-book beauty Shirley Yamaguchi, who plays Stack's "kimono" (i.e., moll); she has all the fluid rhythm of a ripple in a pond...
...Sculptor Constantin Brancusi in Paris. A consummate technician, Noguchi has variously turned his hand to fashionable portrait busts, abstract stone sculptures cut with a diamond saw, furniture, paper lanterns and stage sets. Since 1950 he has spent half of his time in Japan (where he married Screen Star Yoshiko Yamaguchi), concentrated on deliberately crude ceramic sculptures molded from the native earth, and modeled partly on prehistoric Japanese idols. The ceramics in last week's show were mainly semi-abstractions of figures and faces. They looked lumpish and exuberant at once-like the gingerbread cookies of a playful and somewhat...
...party members in the country, and that of these, seven out of ten are "young men and women in their 20s." Meanwhile, the teachers seem to be doing their bit: the Japan Teachers Union sponsored the violently anti-American movie Hiroshima, and the union of the Yamaguchi Prefecture recently published a student-and-teacher almanac with a "thought for each day" on "American imperialism...
...Style. Japanese art lovers might wonder about Centipede and Mister One Man, but they knew the balding artist of Myself. His name: Isamu Noguchi, famed California-born Japanese-American sculptor, who had been to Japan three times since the war preaching modern art. Noguchi's beautiful wife, Shirley Yamaguchi, is just as much a celebrity as the sculptor himself. One of Japan's top movie stars, Shirley met Noguchi on a 1950 trip to the U.S. (to pick up Hollywood pointers, among other things, on how to kiss for the camera, U.S.-style). On their third date...
...Actress Yamaguchi is pretty in a surprisingly conventional Hollywood way, and so, despite its theme of racial tension, is Japanese War Bride. The movie proves notable in only one respect: in the past, the screen's racially mixed love stories have led at least one of the partners to no good end. In Producer Joseph Bernhard's switch on Madame Butterfly, the lovers manage to live happily ever after...