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Beautiful Spring. She was born "about 38" years ago into one of the wealthiest, most aristocratic landowning families in Viet Nam. Her maiden name was Tran Le Xuan, which means Beautiful Spring, and at her family's home in Hanoi she was waited on by 20 servants. Tutored at home, she never finished high school, took ballet lessons, once danced a solo at Hanoi's National Theater. She learned to speak French fluently, today mostly converses in that language, writes all her speeches in French before having them translated into Vietnamese...
...Junpei prefers to live by his wits instead of his money, and hits the road to put the touch on all who cross his zigzag path. On his travels he encounters Komako, a female swindler with a grisly gimmick: she begs by posing as a Hiroshima maiden, although her scars are really from a childhood encounter with a fireplace. "My white corpuscles decrease daily-sometimes I swoon from anemia," she says with a pitiful passion. But she has to use sweet-potato moonshine, rather than a sob story, to pry loose Junpei's bankroll. Then she absconds, but only...
...Monika Henreid, 20, daughter of Actor-Director Paul Henreid, has appeared as a cocktail lounge singer and in several television shows, will soon appear in her father's forthcoming Dead Ringer (with Bette Davis and Karl Maiden). Her father once made an evaluation of her talents that stands as a classic of celebrity kinsmanship. "I think she is enormously talented," he said, wooden-faced. "I don't say that because I'm her father...
First hydrofoil craft to enter regular commuter service in the U.S. is the good ship Albatross, which last week made her maiden voyage on the Port Washington, L.I.-Wall Streen run. Departure time: 8:20 a.m. She was laden with suburban-dwelling executives, plus a tape recorder, individual transistor radios, an electric shaver, ship-to-shore telephone, champagne and high hopes. But on the planned 50-minute trip from Club Capri Marina to lower Manhatten, virtually nothing went right...
...lovely soprano voice and superb comic timing Kathleen Campbell played a village beauty, Rose Maybud-"sweet Rose Maybud," as she often reminds us. Demurely and discreetly, she was a girl on the Victorian make. Her turn came in the second act's "Tight Little Craft" sequence when, with a Maiden At Prayer expression transfixing her lovely visage, Miss Campbell executed a kick step which was far more Minsky than Savoy...