Word: geishas
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...Geisha girls of Japan, skilful with the lute and larynx, forming the apex of Japan's musical culture, were infuriated two weeks ago (TIME, July 16) when they were compared by a committee of 14 moralists to the rude night-club entertainers of Manhattan. Japanese Geisha girls count U. S. music a noisy nonsense and even the finest of U. S. singers their inferiors by far. What last week was their horror to learn that one of the night-club entertainers who had been compared to them was not only their artistic inferior but a member of the lowest...
Excerpt from report: "The hostess of the night club and speakeasy is the American counterpart of the Geisha Girl...
...total contrast stands the Japanese Geisha, neat, skilled in traditional songs, graceful in age-old dances and minutely educated in a polite ritual which by no means always ends in nimble leaping. The Geishas are invariably clean, frequently devout, and have in Japan nothing to be ashamed...
...York Committee of Fourteen, thought tolerant Japanese last week, probably had in mind not the Geisha, but the Joro. A Japanese male of lowest estate, called an Uma or "horse" imparts in a few moments to the despised Joro such little learning as she, coarse and unfit for Geishahood, is thought to require...
...such occasion Baron Tanaka realized during the night that he had inadvertently set the house on fire. Sobering instantly, be ordered the geisha girls out into the street, and personally organized and directed the men-servants in carrying out furniture and extinguishing the fire. When a bill for the damage he had wrought was presented, Baron Tanaka caused each item to be verified by shrewd appraisal, then paid the total swiftly in cash...