Word: courtesans
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...dislikes being called a self-made man. Sent to the Luchu Islands as a Government teacher, he displayed marked talents for conviviality, enjoyed wining, dining and the entertainment of geisha girls at "The House of the Wind and the Moon," found pleasure in a "tropical romance" with a "faithful courtesan" in a genteel house of entertainment, piled up debts. He resisted efforts of lady matchmakers to marry him off to one of the local girls, but finally permitted his best friend to pick a stranger for his wife. The marriage has been a perfect success. Noma returned to Tokyo...
...cannibal, fashions a pottery jar from the skull of lascivious Brother Francois who had made an insane attack on the sacred virgin of the medicine man. At Madame Boul-boul's tavern, "Admiral" Delabouche and his crony play dominoes. Flore arrives and the town takes pride in its first courtesan who becomes the Administrator's mistress. The fragments fit into each other to form a crazy-quilt pattern in black and white...
...rare and beautiful woman was Madame la Comtesse Virginie Oldoïni Verasis-Castiglione, famed courtesan of the Second Empire who divided her best years between Piedmont's King Victor Emmanuel and France's Napoleon III. The Countess's costumes, her jewels and their donors provided half the talk at the Court in Paris. Artists fought to paint her. Sculptors modeled her hands, her fingers, her shapely legs, even her ears...
Near Versailles today is a chateau owned by a woman as rare in her way as the Countess. She is Ganna Walska and because she looks something like the famed courtesan she has made a hobby of collecting the Castiglione portraits, jewels, shawls, laces. As the Countess reincarnate Madame Walska decided to make a U. S. concert tour this winter. She arrived with 12 trunks full of costumes and after several dress rehearsals she took off last week in Philadelphia...
...when a dark, blood-curdling murder mystery is apropos. Those who at the witching hour huddle by the fireside in wide-eyed horror over the ghastly crimes solved by Philo Vance, those who feel terror grip their hearts in an astringent grasp at the shriek of an assassinated courtesan, they will enjoy the "Phantom of Crestwood." It abounds in all the paraphernalia of state grisliness, madmen, midnight murders, death masks, mobsters, and money musk...