Word: brides
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Actress Elsa Lanchester, playing a nightclub date at Manhattan's Blue Angel, shuddered to recall some of her movie roles. "I was a loathsome bearded lady in The Big Top, a resurrected corpse in The Bride of Frankenstein, and I'll play the wicked stepmother in Cinderella," said Elsa in a frightened voice. "I've played so many repulsive characters that I sometimes have to stop and check to make sure that I have arms and legs and am quite normally human...
...often for as little as $15. Japanese husbands still prefer the company of geisha girls to that of their wives. Women still get only half the pay of men for the same jobs, and more than half of Japanese marriages are still arranged by contract without regard to the bride's choice. Nevertheless, doughty Socialist Diet Member Ichiko Kamichika told her sisters, "The Japanese woman of today is beginning to see things in their reality." "Our material gains have not been large," said Woman Lawyer Shigeko Tanabe, "but one thing they cannot take away: we are now recognized...
...inherit the place - decided to quit the soil. He became a butter & egg salesman, then a partner in a general store, and finally got into the automobile parts business. But he kept on living on the farm. His son, William I. Roberts Jr., grew up, married and brought his bride to the house. His grandson. William I. Roberts III, grew up, married and brought his bride there too. When William I. Roberts IV was born two years ago, four generations were sheltered beneath its old rafters...
...enormously rich young planter (Peter Finch) takes his bride, a middle-class English girl (Elizabeth Taylor), back home to his tea plantation in Ceylon. Their house is an Oriental palace with all the Occidental conveniences, but the bride does not like the life in it. Her husband and his assistants work hard all week, and on weekends have wild parties and play polo on bicycles in the main hall. All. that is, except one (Dana Andrews), the second in command, who prefers to play sonatas...
...makes the long trek from Cairo to his native village in Kenya. In retrospect, army life becomes just a great laugh. In the native villages, he makes a hit by simply imitating the gaits of his British officers. And, home at last, his army pay buys him a bride and a great feast. For once even his father approves of him, and allows Gadein to sit on his right. And when, at the end of the feast, Gadein slips off into the bushes with his girl, the village beams...