Word: geishas
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...dormitory dance--for residents of Kirkland, Massachusetts. Lionel, Quincy, Dunster, and Matthews South and their guests--will be held tomorrow at the union, 8:30 p.m. "The oriental Teahouse" has been chosen as the theme will Chinese lanterns, posters, and geisha girls serving refreshments. Music will be provided by George Graham and his Orchestra will intermission entertainment by Arma Schefrin, of Widener Quadrangle song-fest fame...
...manufacturer by such aggressive and once radical tactics as pricing his products uniformly instead of by size, and wooing peasants from their traditional straw shoes to rubber-soled footwear. A stern boss who does not believe in delegating authority, he leaves only minor decisions to his executives, scorns the geisha entertainment parties favored by most Japanese businessmen...
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...Your statement that My Geisha is a "byproduct of one of Hollywood's oddest marriages" is obviously a byproduct (by which I mean illegitimate offspring) of odd reporting and tasteless editing. Two years of time, effort, near heartbreak and $2,000,000 devoted to My Geisha does not add up to a byproduct. If all marriages in Hollywood or on Park Avenue or Main Street, U.S.A.-were as soundly based on honesty, hard work and understanding as Shirley MacLaine's and mine, there would be far fewer divorces for you to record...
...each other three or four times a year, and to anyone who fails to grasp Japan's attractions as against Shirley's, she staunchly defends the arrangement: "If they don't understand, that's their problem." Understanding will scarcely be helped by the movie, My Geisha, although Scriptwriter Norman Krasna says he based it on real life-all about a star's husband (played by Yves Montand) who wants to make it on his own in Japan. Deadpans Shirley: "I've got to be good in this picture, or I'll make...