Word: geishas
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...more cute than droll, more hack-professional than peasantlike. It is not until the teahouse is building that the captain and the colonel are sufficiently at odds to become hilarious. And it is not until the teahouse is built, and there is music and graceful Mariko Niki's geisha dance, that the play takes on its tinkly charm. But by keeping its best foot backward, The Teahouse ends on just the right note of wistful gaiety...
...villagers shower the arriving captain with gifts, among which is a Geisha girl named Lotus Blossom for his own exclusive use. Lotus Blossom is played by Mariko Niki, a lovely young Japanese actress who is fragially feminine and completely enchanting in the role...
Yokohama Mama (Harry Kari; Capitol). In a voice that has the sibilant Oriental inflections of a Peter Lorre, a fellow who calls himself Harry Kari explains how he got snared by a geisha girl...
...worries U.S. experts is Japan's inability to prepare for hard times to come. Instead of using the war boom to cut costs and improve techniques, Japan has wasted its opportunity in a huge orgy of luxury spending on everything from Cadillacs and new office buildings to enormous geisha parties. And when & if a depression comes, it is the Communists who will be able to make the most...
...superlative son of Polynesian (leading money-winning sire of two-year-olds this season) is the second foal of Geisha (a fair-to-middling Vanderbilt mare by the great Discovery). "He doesn't have a nerve in his body, or a drop of temperament," according to Trainer Winfrey. This is one explanation of the Dancer's greatness. Another, Winfrey suspects, is inside the colt's deep chest: "Those lungs may be his greatest asset. At the end of a race he never shows the slightest sign of being winded or tired." Winfrey likens Native Dancer...