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...again. "The King and I" is billed as a "musical play," but actually it is a slick production and very little more. Most of the trouble centers around Hammerstein's handling of the plot and dialogue. The plot, a warmed-over version of "Anna and the King of Siam," concerns the efforts of an English school-mistress to educate the King of Siam and his 77 children; it may have been all right for the novel and movie, but it is completely sterile for Rodgers and Hammerstein...
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...Most Thais live in northern Siam (or Thailand), some in Indo-China, some in eastern Burma...
...have offered money, men or supplies for the U.N. war effort in Korea. Only 14 countries, besides the U.S., have thus far furnished any military assistance. Last week U.N. forces in Korea included contingents from the United Kingdom, France, Australia, Belgium, Luxembourg, The Netherlands, New Zealand, Greece, the Philippines, Siam, Canada, Colombia, South Africa, Turkey.* These units totaled approximately...
Friends announced that Siam's Massachusetts-born, music-writing King Phumi-phon, 23, and Queen Sirikit, 18, were looking forward to a royal heir "in June or July...