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Both hero and plot seemed the mixture as before. In Bombay, Italian Movie Director Roberto Rossellini, in India since January to shoot documentary films, was lodged in Room 544A of the big, baroque Taj Mahal Hotel. Next door, in connecting Suite 545, was ensconced a tall Indian woman named Sonali Das Gupta, 27, mother of two boys and wife of one of India's top film producers, Hari Das Gupta. Sonali had larger accommodations, presumably because her 6-month-old son was sometimes brought to stay with her there. The couple seldom emerged from their quarters even for meals...
...first problem. "In India it is so hot," Stone explains, "that cars have to be parked under shelter or else they turn into ovens. To get them under cover, we raised the building on a marble platform or podium. We are using a precedent of antiquity. Even the Taj Mahal is built on a great square platform...
...beat the 100°-plus heat, Architect Stone borrowed another device from Indian buildings, extended the roof 20 ft. to create a portico supported by narrow, gilded-aluminum columns that run around the whole perimeter. From the Taj Mahal he borrowed the idea of marble and ala baster grilles to cut down glare, but to keep the execution modern. Stone designed a screen of pierced tile that will drop from roof to floor, giving the two-story building an expansive one-story appearance. A double roof with air conditioning will do the job lyth century Indian builders solved with...
India, where U.S. tourists will find one of the world's oldest cultures and some of its most awesomely rugged scenery. Within reach of the big cities are such sights as the magnificent, white marble Taj Mahal at Agra, the ancient Holy City of Benares, Mt. Everest looming over the green tea gardens of Darjeeling. Off the beaten track are trips to the village of Molar Bund, 16 miles from New Delhi, which is entirely inhabited by snake charmers, and to the famed cave temples of Elephanta and Ajanta. For $1,500 per person, two-week tiger hunts...
...dive. Dailey also has a crisis: the star of his outrageously successful TV program, Midnight with Madeline (a part that features some fine burlesque by Dolores Gray), temperamentally revolts against her prospective guest of the evening, a Bronx crackpot whose claim to fame is his model of the Taj Mahal, constructed in 16 years with nothing but chewing-gum wrappers. The three ex-G.I.s are unwittingly shanghaied as substitutes for the crackpot, and from there on, Fair Weather breezes on to a stormy climax-a brawl between the good fellows and the bad fight fixers, in full view...