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Amid the inscrutable intrigue of old-fashioned tongmen and newfangled business operators in San Francisco's Chinatown, tiny Dolly Gee, 64, was empress of finance. For more than 30 years, she was manager of the Bank of America's pagodalike Chinatown branch. Inheriting the shrewdness of her late father, Chinatown's first banker, Charlie Gee, Dolly built the branch deposits from $2,000,000 to $20 million, dished out hundreds of loans that put a financial base under half of Chinatown's enterprises during years when Chinese could not even get life insurance. A high point...
Scotch & P'ai Chiao. Deeply respected in a man's world, gravel-voiced Dolly drank Scotch, gambled heavily in all-night games of p'ai chiao (poker with dominoes) at men's clubs and pubs. Her behavior scandalized the women of Chinatown, but outwardly Dolly did not seem to give a yen that she was shattering the Chinese tradition of stoic, subservient women. Then two weeks ago, Dolly Gee was arrested for embezzling thousands of dollars from her bank. She said she had stolen not for profit but because "I come from a family of bound...
...history of San Francisco's Chinatown...
...earned a mighty supper. The top five restaurants are probably Locke-Ober's ($8-50 for lobster savannah; wait for your rich uncle to visit you). Joseph's, Red Coach Grille, During Park (the roast beef, by all means), and Jimmy's Harborside (for seafood). Boston has a small Chinatown, about four blocks long, running off Washington St. the House of Roy is one among several good restaurants in the area. For Italian food, it's Carmen's an as yet little known walk-up on Charles St. small, intimate, and candle-lighted, or Simeone's in Central Square. Locally...
...United Artists, Hollywood's patient, genial master decision maker who spanned cinema history from the silents to wide-screen extravaganzas; of a heart attack; in Beverly Hills. A shrewd and durable Russian immigrant with a talent for bargaining that propelled him from a drugstore in Manhattan's Chinatown to an estimated $100 million in movie earnings, Schenck possessed a way with people that won him the trust of all filmdom, enabled him to function as Hollywood's peacemaker (he settled the long-standing feud between Mary Pickford and Charlie Chaplin) and to launch a clutch of stars...