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Like many a Broadway and Hollywood contemporary, Actor Kawarasaki had a tickling Marxian social conscience. He organized a new Kabuki troupe called the Zenshinza (Forward-Looking Theater), set up shop in a sleek, modern playhouse outside Tokyo, defied tradition by hiring women actors to play female parts and began mixing Western dramas with the Japanese classics. When V-J brought democracy officially to Japan, Democrat Kawarasaki was ready with a full-fledged production of John Drinkwater's Abraham Lincoln (TIME...
Last week Kawarasaki had a new audience to flatter. In the presence of fire-eating Party Secretary Kyuichi Tokuda (who presumably had promised to foot the bills), Kawarasaki and 71 Zenshinza players joined the Communist Party. "After all," explained the ex-emancipator, "Lincolnism and Marxism are not exactly the same, but they have many similarities...
...Tokyo last week the Zenshinza company, which last winter presented John Drinkwater's Abraham Lincoln (TIME, Feb. 25), was game for a braver try: Lillian Hellman's Watch on the Rhine...
...Tokyo this month the Japs are getting a stage lesson in democracy-and liking it. In a freezing but always well-filled theater, the progressive Zenshinza troupe is performing a four-hour-long version of John Drinkwater's generation-old Abraham Lincoln. The stilted, undramatic play is nothing in itself to warm audiences up. Neither is the name of Lincoln, which to most Japs is far more hazy than hallowed-even though Emperor Hirohito has a "cherished" bust of him in his temporary palace. But the production, with popular, 5 ft. 7 in. Actor Chojuro Kawaraskai playing Lincoln, shows...
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