Playboy After Hours
February, 1959
It doesn't rank with their finest efforts, but Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II, in Flower Drum Song, have come up with a lively, good-looking, and professionally expert entertainment. Using C. Y. Lee's best-seller of the same name, Hammerstein and Joseph Fields fashioned a conventional plot that revolves around the conflict between the orthodox old and the brash young in San Francisco's Chinatown. A boy (Ed Kenney) wants to marry a girl (Pat Suzuki) who is a stripper, and mistress of th...