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Though the great mass of Indian women has lived for centuries under stern Hindu and Moslem restrictions, Indians throughout history have glorified the few, exceptional, highborn women who have excelled as rulers or warriors...
...Clear Day she plays a dual role as Daisy Gamble, a low-brow chick who gains highborn chic when she is hypnotized. With a nod of her head, she goes from side-of-da-mouth to elegant eighteenth century English, from bubble-gum popping to a low purr when crystal wouldn't melt in her mouth. The new voice seems less to be coming from her than through her-a ventriloquistic trick-but it provokes a growl of lusty approval from the audience. And that in itself is justification aplenty for Alan Jay Lerner to have paid Barbara...
...Tamiko is a Panavision melting pot. British Actor Laurence Harvey, who was born in Lithuania, plays a half-Russian, half-Chinese photographer in Tokyo who wants to go to the U.S. France Nuyen, who was born in Marseille of a French mother and a Chinese father, plays Tamiko, a highborn Japanese girl who wants Harvey. Martha Hyer, who is as American as a mink-lined raincoat in July, also wants Harvey, and so does Miyoshi Umeki, an honest-to-Buddha Japanese, who plays a Ginza B-girl...
...where lower-class families have higher divorce rates than the rich and highborn...
Coins to Deals. The beginnings are sufficiently classic: Mayer Amschel Rothschild was a secondhand-shopkeeper, locked at night inside the Frankfurt ghetto. Appropriately enough, Mayer began to specialize in coins, and rose by way of highborn coin collectors. From selling coins, the family went on to lending money; the sons left home, and went from trading in commodities to dealing in finance. In those days, when news traveled no faster than the stagecoach or sailing ship, the five brothers realized that a speedy communications system could mean money, organized their own version of a private pony express and courier service...