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...Segregated quarter of Tokyo in which are concentrated the scenes of night carousing. Permanent female denizens are called Geisha, literally "a person of pleasing accomplishments...
...historic land of the geisha girls, jinrikishas, and paper houses has been transformed into a bustling, optimistic country of Rotarians, go-getters, and "Service First" business men. The old Japan still moves only in the enchanting interpretations of Lafcadio Hearn. It has given way to the push of the Babbitt. An American Main-Streeter, member of the college friendship pilgrimage which has just completed an exploration of the modern Japan, is the only one who can properly eulogize the new soul of the Orient...
SAYONARA -John Paris -Boni & Liveright ($2.00). Another Rain, in a Japanese setting: geisha girls, Anglican bishops, cherry blossoms, suicide. The author of the controversial Kimono has again scratched off the customary Oriental glamour and uncovered a realistic-at times amusing, at times sordid-picture of Japanese life. Beneath the rather melodramatic narrative runs an undercurrent of real seriousness, a sense of inscrutable, unconquerable differences between East and West, a shadow of the intangible fatalism of the Orient that is at once its peril and its charm...
...program is as follows: 1. Overture Iphigenie in Aulis, Gluck 2. Harvard March. 3. Selections from "The Geisha," Sidney Jones 4. Harvard March. 5. La Dernier Sommeil de la Vierge Prelude to Act 3, Massenet 6. Harvard March. 7. The Chocolate Soldier, Oscar, Strauss 8. Fair Harvard...
...program is as follows: 1. Overture, Iphigenie en Aulide, Gluck 2. Selection from "The Geisha." Sidney Jones 3. Andante Cantabile, Tschaikowsky 4. Walter sus "Das Susse Madel." Reinhold 5. Selections from "The Chocolate Soldier." Strauss