Around the Oriental Globe
ACTRESS IN NEW CiHOV/
NEW YORK: Mary Mon Toy, local actress-singer, is one of the featured performers in Harry Lasker's "Old Bucks and New Wings," a revue headed by Smith and Dale, at the Mayfair Theatre here.
Miss Mon Toy's credits in show business have been wide and varied. On Broadway, she was Minnie Ho in "World of Suzie Wong" and Mamselle Honolulu in "House of Flowers." Her stock parts include in "South Pacific," "King and I" and "Teahouse of the August Moon." She also appeared in films such as "Love is a Many-Splen-dored Thing," "Kismet" and "Barbarian and the Geisha."
Miss Mon Toy has also performed on TV and her night club work has been in NYC, Paris, Mexico City, Las Vegas and Toronto.
NANCY KWAN GETS BOLE
NEW YORK: Diahann Carroll, star of Broadway's "No Strings," spoke up against Hollywood producers who have chosen Eurasian actress Nancy Kwan for the film version. "There are very few roles for Negro girls as it is," Miss Carroll said, "and I feel insulted and hurt that they closed the door in my face."
Producer Ray Stark replied: "We never thought of her for the part because we have Nancy Kwan under contract and we're always looking for a part to build her up. We had to have a name. This is a $3-million to $4-million picture."
Miss Carroll added:  "I just want
the people who have the responsibility for taking this part from a Negro girl to admit the responsibility―to confess that they're afraid of the reaction in the four or five southern States. After all, with an Oriental girl, they've got to change the story and it will lose some of the newness of the relationship of a white man and a Negro girl that we have in it."
Mr. Stark replied ： "There is no color problem involved. This isn't going to be a race problem picture the way we're going to do it. It will be light, happy entertainment." But, he added, "I'm not saying we might not be begging Diahann Carroll to do the part if Nancy Kwan were to get pregnant again."
HARVESTER FOB CARROTS
SACRAMENTO: A Salinas carrot grower hasn't waited for the trend toward machine harvesting. In fact, Sam Chirm reported recently he had to build a machine to keep in business back in 1952.
Chinn related (in the Farm Bureau Monthly) that his field workers struck that year. Out of necessity he welded some parts together to form a mechanical harvester that took his carrots out of the ground.
Then he found that his harvester was doing the work for only a fraction of the cost of a crew of field hands. I cut labor from 60 to 70 field hands to a machine crew of five. The cost fell from $10 per ton to 75 cents.
Chinn said that over the years he has modified and changed the mach-
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CHINATOWN NEWS, JAN. 18, 1963