Word: orientals
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...biggest religious festivals in Ceylon is Esala Perahera, held each year for centuries in honor of the tooth of Buddha, which is enshrined in Kandy, Ceylon. While the densely packed pilgrims from all across the Orient press close, torchbearers and musicians swirl round a procession of painted elephants. Last week's Perahera drew a crowd of 100,000 Buddhists-and twice it turned into a milling nightmare...
...Moran is well known in Cadillac and Pontiac, Mich., and in the imperial palaces of the Orient. On the other hand, he has never been in Buyck or Austin, Minn...
...comeliest beauty queens of the Orient, Sirikit Kitiyakara, who is also Queen of Thailand, turned up to open a new hospital in Bangkok, enchanted her subjects with her quiet charm...
...want." This was high praise from a man who boasts that "I have little personal relationship with actors. All actors are cattle." * Just before making Harry, Shirley eloped with Steve Parker, an unemployed actor with an urge to wheel and deal as a producer. Now Steve is in the Orient doing just that, making TV packages and movie shorts. ("He's a very rich man in yen," Shirley insists to doubting friends. "When he gets rolling, his business will make my operations look sick.") When Shirley made Around the World, she got to Japan herself; when she took time...
Last week in Japan, at the end of its tour, the Little Orchestra played still another Cowell gift to the Orient: a two-movement piece with a "Japanese feel" titled Ongaku. Strongly flavored with the haunting sonorities of early Japanese court music, Ongaku was a success with the older members of the audience, but left some of the younger ones, whose musical diet is increasingly Western, faintly puzzled. Said one: "Frankly, it's too Japanese for us; it's a bit over our heads...