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Thf r--ORNB EXPRESS COI BORNE ONT. MARCH 29, 1956 Japanese Actress On New York Stage Mariko 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 applied herself. The slender dress, nipped in more at the waist than a Chinese sheath, was designed by Miss Niki, as is most cf her wardrobe. The dress was indicative of Miss Niki's second love -- fashion design. As she prepares to end more than 1000 performances in the role of "Lotus Blossom" in the New York production 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 American, Bernard Dekle, a writer for the Voire of America, in Washington, D.C., who rushes up to spend weekends with his wife in their large Manhattan studio apartment. Mis; Niki's rise to stardom 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 Japan, 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 Maurice Evans, asking if she would be kind enough to come to the theatre for an audition On a new play. Miss Niki, who had played in the theater and in films in Japan, 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 Eisenhower tells newsmen that he would be very happy to run for re-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 a; the suggestion of Mr. Evans, and began her career on the American stage. Except for a tota, 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 human. 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 cf "Lotus Blossom" because she has been able to play her, not as a stylized Japanese geisha girl, but as "friend of all the people--a sort of nice, typical Japanese girl." )>es Miss Niki like keeping house when she isn't at the theatre, or taking Japanese dancing lessons or singing lessons? 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 ingredients for her native dishes. "But maybe I still keep house in a Japanese waf"--I can't tell," "You American women know how to use the time. You do thii»s so quickly. Time is very prcc-ious here, isn't it? In Japan, you see, everyone takes time. Somehow there seems to be more." T-ioi'°h 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 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 designing 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 thousands of clothes of one style." The clothes she designs for herself, such as the black silk sheath she wore for the interview, have a notable Oriental flavor. It is this type of East-West clothes that she would like to try her hand at designing for 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, left. 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 K University fraternity, puts the bite on a Colorado practic and brings a game to a temporary halt. previous conviction is a matter of record and the consequences equally grave. As for irresponsible drivers, this measure will not deter them a whit | The real danger is that the stigma of guilt will attach itself 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 immediately make him suspect. Even in the routine matter of using his permit as personal identification 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 Highways 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 only after the Depart-s convinced he will operate his car within the law, without jeopardizing himself or others. When the Department is convinced of this, it should restore him to full status, without the obuoxious intermediate step of second-class citizenship. The onus here is on the Department, not the driver. The drinking driver is admittedly a serious problem, requiring 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 liberties, For that is what the present system is doing, whetner the Department officials realize if 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-clusion from that justice can be widened a step the Highways Department is already considering. The end result 0f that can only be that everyone convicted of any offense must carry a card to proclaim it. Canada will not tolerate such a perversion of democracy. HE'S DIFFERENT - Most persons 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 Seeing Red! A basic tenet of British justice is that an accused person is innocent until proved guilty. Equally important is the proposition that once punished, either by temporary loss of freedom or by financial penalty, he has paid his obligation to society. Both cl these principles are violated by the Ontario Department of Highways' practice of issuing red driving permits to certain classes of drivers. The Department has reportedly issued 1,500 of the new permits since October to drivers 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 extension 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 themselves into a situation which would call for the revelation Of their past shame to police. According to Highways Minister 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 outweigh the disadvantages and dangers of the scheme? 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