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...villagers shower the arriving captain with gifts, among which is a Geisha girl named Lotus Blossom for his own exclusive use. Lotus Blossom is played by Mariko Niki, a lovely young Japanese actress who is fragially feminine and completely enchanting in the role...

Author: By Richard H. Ullman, | Title: Teahouse of the August Moon | 10/1/1953 | See Source »

...Lotus Blossom brings with her a host of problems in occupational diplomacy. The Women's League for Democratic Action accuses Fisby of discriminating against it, and demands that the G. girl give instruction in her art to all the village women...

Author: By Richard H. Ullman, | Title: Teahouse of the August Moon | 10/1/1953 | See Source »

...Ernest Gleason got a message for a young man in the audience from a "tall and slender" lady "who is putting her arms around your neck." The Rev. Marie Sykes, 68, of Los Angeles' Central Spiritualist Church brought a woman messages from a spirit named "Blossom." One woman was ominously advised to get her "papers in readiness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: From out of This World | 9/7/1953 | See Source »

Lucky Hobby. Ott started time-lapse photography as a hobby at 18. With a secondhand 16-mm. movie camera, he photographed budding apple blossoms every hour for four days. The film made each blossom open like an explosion. To take shots oftener, Ott rigged up an electric clock which every five minutes started a motor that pulled down the window shade, switched on floodlights, and tripped his shutter. His movie showed the blossom slowly opening, flowering, then wilting-all in two minutes. He kept up the work as a hobby, while clerking in Chicago's First National Bank (once...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RESEARCH: The Time-Lapse Movie | 7/6/1953 | See Source »

...seat in King Edward's chair. The choir sang Handel's anthem Zadok the Priest, and four Knights of the Garter, gathering about their Queen, raised a cloth-of-gold canopy above her. The Dean of Westminster poured a spoonful of holy oil (containing perfumes of orange blossom, roses, cinnamon and jasmine, mixed with musk and ambergris) from an eagle-shaped vessel called the Ampulla. The Archbishop moistened his finger in the oil and made the sign of the cross on both the Queen's hands, on her breast and on the crown of her head...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Your Undoubted Queen | 6/8/1953 | See Source »

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