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Ppv' Thh Clipping FiPm NEW YORK, R Y. SUNDAY MIRROR IB LEE MORTIMER An Oriental Influence Is Engulfing Gotham Japan may not have won the war, but the way New York ana show business are going JgP&Gp this season, you sure would thinK it had. I was a dozen years ahead of i my time on the Chinese mflu-| enoe. For years I?╟╓ve been pre-i dieting the big Polynesian flip. 1 But prophets are without honor, j etc., and they didn?╟╓t listen to I me when I told them about the 1 Nipponese take-over. THE FIRST rumblings were heard last year with ?╟úSayonara.?╟Ñ ?║ It was followed by the success-I ful Vegas-Miami invasion of Tom I Ball?╟╓s Geisha Girl revue. Over at the Latin Quarter, I where smart Eddie Risman keeps I ahead of the trends, DonnAMen 1 is building a Japanese Humber i for the October show around I Mitsuko Morigai, Japan?╟╓s most I famous beauty. I; The Lexington Hotel Hawaiian I Room got into the act, too, tak-1 ing this department?╟╓s advice and I presenting for the first time I there, a Japanese in kimono, I same being lovely Tobi Kai (ex-I China Doll) who will be re-I viewed In a forthcoming opus. The Saito restaurant in W. I 55th, with tea house booths and | Japanese wenches to serve, is I already established and going I into its second year as a car-I riage-trade attraction. I Earlier in the year, Herb Jail cobi?╟╓s Blue Angel briefly fea- tured Myoshi Umeki, after she won the Academy Award. Pat Suzuki, an American of Japanese descent, will headline the Chinese ?╟ ?╟ Flower Drum Song,?╟Ñ in which many of the ?╟úChinese?╟Ñ are Japanese, as they are in. the ?╟úWorld bf Suzy Wong,?╟Ñ which=| is also Chinese. A SYNDICATE, headed by an attorney who has already registered the names to protect them, is looking for sites to build a couple of Japanese night clubs (first ever seen here) which will be called the Geisha House and the Ginza, or some such, and will present imported acts and edibles. He figures to cash in big, what with one of Tokyo?╟╓s leading de-I partment stores, Takashamaya, opening a branch on Fifth Ave.l next month. This indicates a Japanese influence here not only in food and gals, but in home furnishings and] women?╟╓s fashions as well. Indeed, Cindy (And I) Adams,j wife of a comedian whose name I forget, was ?╟úhonorary?╟Ñ model, at a showing of George Oka's* fabulous Oriental influenced* fashions at the Savoy-Hilton. After she bought all the dresses she modelled, Joey wailed that it cost him another 5 Gs to run a formal party so she could wearj them. . ' During extra curricular hours,] you see ihore and more slant- eyed .Sadies decorating arms of local Lupos. This is all to the good, adding to the color of cosmopolitan New York, but I wish the wolves would stick to their I own Red Riding Hoods and leave I my racket alone. This Clipping From NEW YORK, N. Y7 WORLD-TELEGRAM & SUN SEP 11 1958 Tips oirTables Dick Shawn Signed By Latin Quarter m By ROBERT^ W. DANA. Dick Shawn, the comedian, will succeed Roberta Sher- v wood as th?· star of Doni^j*- -den?╟╓s ?╟úInternational ' Holiday for Love?╟Ñ at the Latin Quar-ter next Thursday. Following , , a tour of the straw hat circuit f with ?╟úWhere?╟╓s Charlie,?╟Ñ Shawn I JAQUE LYNN is vocalist will be in for five weeks, with Buddy Bair?╟╓s orchestra, On this night the club also i appearing at Roseland Dance will present the Morlidor Trio, : City. |a contortion act, and' promote j : ,ibeautiful singer Martha Er-. U rolle to a featured role. Ainong ' # V ^ the other attractions are j Tanya Corlette, ?╟úThe Girl in [ ] .the Shower?╟Ñ;. Gina Genardi, * soubrette; John Juliano, pro- 1 ?√ß \ duction singer, and Tony Mack, dancer. This Clipping Front W LOS-ANGELES, CALIF. EXAMINER -AiiE .JlA p Maxwell Good, Barry By HAROLD HILDEBRAND K headliner at the Mou- number, she gets an able as-^y m Rouge, Marilyn Maxwell, List jfrom a pianist, known|| comes out second best to ag garry, who tinkers with?½ ccjmic Dave Barry, also newthe ivories properly to createg)j to the show. , the old pianola sound. Barry has smart material,! seasoned timing and a knack MORE SHORT SKITS in. joke telling. His mimicry More of these short produc-^ _^specially a Liber ace take- Lion skits might take her act:-off?╟÷is hilarious. out of the doldrums. As, ^ Although not all his mate- things are, Miss Maxwell ex-| rial is fresh?╟÷some he usedjudes great warmth and gives;; ?╟ ^rSence ?· talented seen at the nighterym recent wh0 are seen to| months, has the delivery, pol- advantage in the Donn Ardenj isji and individual style thatLaged production ,JPrahkie| sets them apart. and Johnnie?╟Ñ;This climactic BIJRLESQOER?╟÷ [episode, employing a giganticc kiss Maxwell, a voluptuous (70) cast, never fails bimide who has been touted ceive heavy plaudits from| fof considerable time as a vo- patrons, ealist, fares better wittr her r r ?╟÷-burlesquing than with her ?╟≤ sihging. To only one vocal number, ?╟úDormi,?╟Ñ an Italian K; lullaby, does the singer per-h: sonalize with a wistful) sin- L-v cere quality. She prefaced itr ?╟ú 1 hSHB|h^H by).saying she ?╟úalways MM it to her son before he goes ?· to i sleep.?╟Ñ After the quick change r from a white whistle bait t gown to the sack dress in t which she portrays Greta c Green, siren of the silent e screen, Miss Maxwell comes yg more into her own. She does ;| the Charleston, not expertly, t hut with an effervescence ! which thoroughly pleased the n customers. ?╟ú11 - * i. ?╟≤/ , l ' RHH In this last, better staged L-