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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1956-03-29, Page 7Japanese Actress On New York . Stage Mariko Niki, 24 - year - old Japanese star of "The Teahouse of the August Moon," wore a back silk brocade dress the day 1 snet her, It had a softly shaped aandarin collar and black bead embroidery which she had ap- plied herself. The slender dress, nipped in more at the waist than a Chinese sheath, was de- signed by Miss Niki, as is most e her wardrobe. The dress was indicative of Miss Niki's second love - fa- shion design. As she prepares to end more than 1000 perform- ances in the role of "Lotus Blossom" in the New York pro- duction of "Teahouse" and go with the company on the road, she is naturally contemplating facets of her future career. At the moment she says,, "I love seting, but I would love, too, to get my hand into fashion," And there are as well more housekeeping angles to Learn, for she is the wife of an Ameri- can, Bernard Dekla, a writer for the Voice of America, in Wash ington, D.C:, who rushes up to seen( vgeekends with his wife in their' lajig'e Manhattan studio apartment:: Miss • Niici's rise to star- dom was by rapid transit. She went to the United States from Japan in 1952 to study such things as international relations, design, television, and English at Columbia and New York Universities. She came, too to "see what American ladies were wearing." It was also while a coed that she renewed her friendship with Bernard Dekle, whom she had met through her brother in Ja- pan, where Mr. Dekle was on General MacArthur's staff. When the couple decided to be married, her family in Japan tss-- were happy for they felt she was not marrying a stranger. Also, while still a coed, Miss Niki received an unexpected telephone call from producer Pllaurice Evans, asking if she would be kind enough to come to the theatre for an audition an a new play. Miss Niki, who had played in the theater and in films in Ja- pan, decided that it would be pleasant to appear on the American stage as well. So, WOULD RUN WITH NIXON - At his news conference in Washington, President Eisen- hower tells newsmen that he would be very happy to run for we -election with Vice President Richard Nixon. gaily bedecked in a kimono, she turned up for her appointment. Then and there producer Albert Lewis and author John ,-'atrick knew they had found their "Lotus Blossom." Miss Niki whose real name is Kazue Ouchi, changed her name nt the suggestion of Mr. Evans, and began her career on the American stage. Except for a totai of about three weeks, Miss Niki has been in the show since it opened in the fall of 1953, and she is the only principal .from the original oast who will go on tour with the show after it closes March 24 at the Martin Beck. • She says, "I love playing this show very much. It is so hu- man. In it Americans laugh at themselves and, unless you are very wide -minded, you cannot laugh at yourself." Miss Niki says she likes the role of "Lotus Blossom" because she has been able to play her, not as a stylized Japanese gei- sha girl, but as "friend of all the people --a sort of nice, typical Japanese girl," laces Miss Niki like keep- ing house when she isn't at the theatre, or taking Japanese dancing lessons or singing les- sons? Yes, she does, though she admits she had a great deal to learn fast. "When I arrived I knew nothing about gadgets, nor frozen foods nor minute -rice," she remembers. Her neighbors have helped her learn about the gadgets and she copes very well with the cooking, with a favorite Japanese grocer to deliver in- gredients for her native dishes. "But maybe I still keep house in a Japanese way -I can't tell," "You American women know ,how to use the time. You do thing's so quickly. Time is very precious here, isn't it? In Japan, you see, everyone takes time. Somehow there seems to be more." Though. she is now used to the New York pace, she says, "I still can't keep up with those efficient American ladies who keep the house, go out to work, come home, and keep the house again." However, Miss Niki does find the time to design her own clothes, which a dressmaker here makes up for her. In Japan she did a little personal design- ing .for people whom she knew very well, and it is this type of personal or custom designing which she feels she prefers to do. She is frank to say, "I don't know about those big -scale things where one makes thous- ands of clothes of one style." The clothes she designs for herself, such as the black silk sheath she wore for the inter- view, have a notable Oriental flavor. It is this type of East- West clothes that she would like to try her hand at designing for others. She likes the use of the sash, of silk 'brocades, of Oriental sheath lines, and open -sleeved, half-length Orient a 1 "happi" coats. She feels that Oriental clothes can be nicely adapted to American women who she says have the stature and litheness to wear them well. Miss Niki is herself much taller than most women of her country. She stands five feet four inches in her geta! At the end of the "Teahouse" totir, this winsome and gracious actress and her husband will go back to Japan for a visit with her family. Then will be soon enough to decide about the future, w VISITOR TO LONDON - British Prime Minister Sir Anthony Eden, left, is greeting French Premier Guy Mallet as they began their talks an the Middle East situation. GAME GOES TO THE DOGS -Boxer pup, mascot of a Kansas University fraternity, puts the bite on a .Colorado practice ball and brings a game to a temporary halt. HE'S DIFFERENT - Most per- sons use a ladder when they're painting a house. But not Dale Bradley. Sixteen -year-old Dale reaches the eaves on his home by riding high on a unicycle, as above, Seeing Red ! (An Editorial in The Toronto Globe and Mail) A basic tenet of British just- ice is that an accused person is innocent until proved guilty. Equally important is the pro- position that once punished, either by temporary loss of freedom or by financial pen- alty, he has paid his obligation to society. Both of these prin- ciples are violated by the Ont- ario Department of Highways' practice of issuing red driving permits to certain classes of drivers. The Department has report- edly issued 1,500 of the new permits since October to driv- ers whose ordinary permit was suspended after conviction for drunk or impaired driving. They must be carried for two years before full reinstatement is accorded. . Consideration is now being given to the exten- sion of the policy to include drivers convicted of other offenses, such as dangerous driving. The specious logic behind the plan is that these marked drivers will be, more careful, being reluctant to get them- selves into a situation which would call for the revelation of their past shame to police. According to highways Min- ister Allan, the red permits actually do act as, a deterrent to incautious drivers, They probably have this effect on . some, to be sure , but the question which must be asked is this: Does the result out- weigh the disadvantages and dangers of the scheme? In our opinion the answer is that it does not. Surely most drivers would be especially careful after one conviction, no matter what color their. permit, The chances Of their being stopped after drinking are -equal; and the previous conviction is a matter of record and the consequences equally grave. As for irrespon- sible drivers, this measure will not deter them a whit The real danger is that the stigma of, guilt will attach it- self to a ` driver with a red permit as soon as a policeman sees it. He may be innocently involved in an accident, but his special permit will immedi- ately make him suspect. Even in the routine matter of using his permit as personal iden- tification in banks or in other transactions, his character would be reflected in unfair light. Issuance of . special permits is tantamount to an admission by the Department of High- ways .that it does not trust these. drivers and must adopt such means to keep them in check. This being the case, the Department is impertinent to reissue permits at all to them. A driver under suspension should be permitted to drive again only after the Depart- ment is convinced he will oper- ate his car within the law, with- out jeopardizing himself or others. When the Department isconvinced of this, it should restore him to full status, with- out the obuoxious intermediate step of second-class citizenship. The onus here is on the Depart- ment, not the driver. The drinking driver is ad- mittedly a serious problem, re- quiring stern measures, but this is an ineffectual method of controlling it. 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