Word: geishas
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that the men are back safe and sound, in the more or less morally scrutinous anvirons of Cambridge the stories are frying thick which tell of eastern nights made enchanting by "geisha girls" and Nipponese potions, which furnish ample apology for the discouraging exhibition of our National pastime, to the subjects of His Imperial Majesty...
...this wild report seems to be only a flimsy excuse and perhaps the last faint touches of a sake hangover. The disconcerting presence of geisha girls seems to find a good deal of favor when one asks the why and wherefore. After all, Americans are not too numerous in Japan and the prospect of spending a pleasant few hours with a bunch of Harvard ball-players must have made many a comely Japanese maiden forget her afternoon prayers...
...winning ball team with geisha girls and have a winning ball team left. And when you add a dash of fried eels for lunch and a bit of raw fish for dinner, the result is appalling. That was another thing that was bound to threw a nine off its stride. They say that you could get cooked food but it consisted of fish heads with the eye-balls served up as a delicacy. Even roast prime ribs of beef an just would have been welcome...
...early pride and poverty, and the vein of moralizing that runs through his narrative, Noma is no Horatio Alger hero, 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...
...story-about a U. S. naval officer (Gary Grant) who light-heartedly marries a geisha girl, deserts her when she is with child, returns with his U. S. wife to pay a call when the geisha girl has been hungrily awaiting his return for three years-seems a little forlorn with no one to sing Puccini's music. For cinemaddicts who enjoy librettos without song it should provide acceptable entertainment. Typical shot: Gary Grant heartily promising to return to Japan when the robins nest again...