Zurich Herald, 1956-03-29, Page 3di
Japanese Actress
r1 New York . Stage
1Vlariko Niki, 24 - year - old
Japanese star of "The Teahouse
of the August Moon," wore a
black silk brocade dress the day
i met her, It had a softly shaped
mandarin 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
of 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
acting, 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 Dekle, a writer for
the Voice of America, in Wash-
ington, D.C., who rushes up to
spend weekends with his wife
ie their large Manhattan studio
apartment.
Miss Niki'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
.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
iVlaurice 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,
f fir -:i`_ • '.44:p•�t yhM;ti
WOULD RUN WITH NIXON -
At his news conference in
Washington, President Eisen -
Lower tells newsmen that he
would be very happy to run for
go -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 Oucbi, changed her name
at the suggestion of Mr. Evans, •
and began her career on the
American stage. Except for a
total. 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 cast 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."
DC - 2s 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 waw -I can't tell,"
"You American women know
how to use the time. You do
things 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 tnose 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• Oriental "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"
tour, 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.
VISITOR TO LONDON -- British Prime Minister Sir Anthony Eden,
Neft, is greeting French Premier Guy Mollet as they began their
talks on 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 Redd !
(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 wi11 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
Borne, 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
is convinced 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. Education and
enforcement are the weapons
which must be rsed, not a
method which undermines the
whole basis of our civil liber-
ties, For that is what the pre-
sent system is doing, whether
the Department officials realize
it or not. Either the principles
of British justice are right for
all citizens, or for none at all.
It is impossible say they are
right for an armed robber, but
not for an impaired • ,motorist.
The real danger is that once
the bulwark is breached -as it
now has been- the basis of ' x -
elusion from that justice can
be widened a step the High-
ways Department is already
considering. The end result of
that can only be that every-
one convicted of any offense
must carry a card to proclaim
it. Canada will not tolerate
such a perversion of democracy.
How Can
By Anne Ashley
Q. How can I remove a splin-
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A. Fill a small bottle up to
the neck with hot water. Place
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A, Use two tablespoonfuls of
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Q. How ean I harden the
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A. After washing the hair
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der the cold water faucet. This
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make the brush last much
longer than if rinsed in warm
water.
Q. Flow can I test a hot oven
When baking a cake?
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ISSUE 13 - 1956