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Near the southern coast is the port city of Saigon, with its teeming, clamorous, shop-filled alleyways, its broad, treelined, Frenchified boulevards overflowing with beautiful fragile girls, like exotic moths in their flowing skirts split at the waist over trousers of silken gauze. Saigon's wealthy exporters deal in rice...
∙ As president of Restaurant Associates, quiet, casual Jerome Brody, 38, has cornered a big helping of Manhattan's high-priced eating trade with a chain of pretentious feeding places (the Four Seasons, Forum of the Twelve Caesars, the Tower Suite). Now Brody is bent on another exotic venture...
The most popular nightclubs are Storyville; where it's jazz; Blinstrub's, featuring big-name popular entertainers; Club Zara, for belly dancers; and the Polynesian Village, where the prices are high and the drinks exotic.
Hats & Trims are playing up fur. The pillbox may go back on the medicine-cabinet shelf (did Jackie overexpose it?) to be replaced by small, back-of-the-head berets of lizard and other exotic game, while furry cuffs and banding tone up the dresses. Fringed shawls in brocades, silks...
On the Double (Paramount). Danny Kaye is one of a precious clutch of performers who can still appear alone on a bare stage and hold audiences from riffraff to royalty rapt for hours. Yet Hollywood insists on ballooning his Pied Piper image with Panavision, or multiple-tracking his slap-happy...