Word: yum
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Musically, most of the lustre came from the romantic lead, Vivian Thomas as Yum-Yum, and Benjamin Cox's Nanki-Poo. Miss Thomas bounces onto the stage with her disarming freshness and charm and an outstandingly lovely voice. Cox has just the right voice for this part, and knows how to use it, although last night he sounded a little constrained. The two of them made a very attractive pair, if slightly too all-American for their British pronunciation...
...scrawling appeals to Gilbert & Sullivan fans the world over, requesting their signatures for the petition she was preparing for Parliament. Seared into her mind were reported visions of Mike Todd's Hot Mikado with Katisha as an opulent, raucous blues singer, and of a Los Angeles Yum-Yum yodeling "stark naked in her bath." Soon Crusader Alderley began to get reports from the U.S. (where G. & S. operas are not protected by copyright) detailing even more flagrant abominations: a "gutbucket" Mikado with a "hula-hooping" chorus, a "disgusting performance" of Patience with "Bunthorne played as a pansy...
...Tibetan, yab is an honorific for father and yum for mother, signifying the spiritual idea of cosmic polarity much as the principles of yang and yin do in Chinese thought...
...Richard Mason's bestselling novel, flounced into Boston dressed in Designer Jo Mielziner's spectacular sets -a revolving stage with great, gaudy panels that slide in and out, up and down, through dancing and disaster, life and death. The story line is distressing: boy meets Hong Kong "Yum-Yum girl," boy loves girl, girl loves boy, boy rejects girl, boy returns to girl (Yum Yum!) but cannot support her baby, girl walks out because she loves baby better, baby is killed in earthquake, boy helps pay for funeral. It is lovely, almond-eyed France Nuyen (the Liat...
...County, Conn, and fuses the inevitable melee between mufti and khaki. Among the participants in this guffawlderol: a club-car Pagliaccio otherwise known as "Harry Bannerman, boy adulterer" whose inability to make a heavy date with his civic-minded wife drives him to guilt-ridden sessions "of candlelight and yum-yum" with a sex-famished neighbor; the neighbor's absentee husband, a cigar-chomping titan of TV; an amiable, lovesick sheep in second lieutenant's clothing named Guido di Maggio ("Hey, di Maggio, let's play some ball"); di Mag's girl, a progressive schoolteacher...