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...help Hope out in the pinches, a group of seductresses billed as The Global Girls troops through: Yvonne De Carlo as a Spanish floozy whose secret weapon is flamenco; Lilo Pulver as a brusque, weepy vodkaholic making a case for the U.S.S.R.; Miiko Taka as an ah-so Geisha who offers back rubs and hot saki; and Elga Andersen as a French fille de joie who waives her diplomatic immunity in pajama tops. True love is the Belgian lass (Michele Mercier), a high-minded guide from the Low Countries. Obviously, the movie makes a negligible contribution to world amity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Hope Pops for Peace | 5/22/1964 | See Source »

...commute by bus or bicycle, reduce their liquor intake and cut restaurant side dishes to a maximum of three. In keeping with his austere mood, Park advised women to wear their skirts shorter and demanded crew cuts for men. Above all, civil servants must stay out of kiseng (geisha) houses. That, declared the proprietress of a big kiseng house in Seoul, was carrying things too far. Said she: "Where else can government officials transact their business...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: South Korea: The Simple Life | 2/7/1964 | See Source »

...while loitering around a railroad station, he is adopted by two abandoned children. He snarls like a bee-stung samurai, he sulks like a spoiled geisha, but the kids tag along. And so Junpei has two kids, a sweetheart on the lam, and no yen except to do right by the youngsters and to get Komako (and his money) back...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: A Most Humanly Hobo | 8/2/1963 | See Source »

Died. Yuki Kato Morgan, 81, widow of wealthy George Morgan, a beautiful Japanese Geisha girl who withstood the pleas of young Morgan (a nephew of J. P. Sr.) for nearly two years, at last in 1903, unlike Madame Butterfly, married the man and toured the world with him for twelve nomadic years until he died, leaving her a comfortable income, which she used to return home in 1938 and begin teaching the gentle art of the tea ceremony and ikebana (floral arrangement); of pneumonia; in Kyoto...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: May 31, 1963 | 5/31/1963 | See Source »

Monday, April 22 Monday Night at the Movies (NBC, 7:30-9:30 p.m.). John Huston's The Barbarian and the Geisha stars John Wayne, not as the geisha. Color...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Apr. 19, 1963 | 4/19/1963 | See Source »

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