Word: geishas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...experiment with trial marriages. On mountain trails near Karuizawa and in the beach shacks on the Izu shore, schoolboys and girls were found sleeping together. To their horrified elders, the new mambo-garu (mambo girl) was little better than the new sutorippu, or stripteaser, who was rivaling the traditional geisha as a professional entertainer...
Holly Golightly, the charming corn-pone geisha who sheds everything but her dark glasses in Manhattan, suggests early in Truman Capote's bestselling Breakfast at Tiffany's (TIME, Nov. 3) that a man who gives his date less than $50 for a powder-room tip is a cheapskate. Holly herself was made to look like a piker last week when one Bonnie Golightly. who insists that she is the real-life original of Holly, filed suits totaling $800,000 against Capote, Esquire (which first published the long story) and Random House. The grounds: 1) libel. 2) invasion...
...Geisha Boy (Jerry Lewis; Paramount). Jerry Lewis stands glaring across the body of a sleeping blonde at a white rabbit. Jerry is a butterfingered magician who has all he can do to pull the rabbit out of a hat. How can he conceivably pull the thing out of a sleeping compartment without waking the dame (Marie McDonald) and rousing the rest of the passengers on the flight...
...have just read your Nov. 24 story on "The Vanishing Geisha." Possibly Tokyo's 600 geisha are all aged; however, I assure you that there are as many geisha as before the war, both young and aged. I enclose a photograph which shows one youngster, now eleven, who will become a fourth-generation geisha. In training since the sixth month and sixth day of her sixth year, she received the right to her dance teacher's name (Onoe) a few months...
...geisha is not now and never has been for the young man or for American tourists; she is for the Japanese businessman, politician, professional man or artist who has made or inherited his name and fortune. Possibly the Japanese businessman who said, ''Frankly . . . they have become a bore" was referring to geisha parties for foreign tourists, rather than to geisha...