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...role of a man who understands nothing at all. . . . My incredible ignorance provoked people-Italians as well as Germans-into giving me detailed explanations of matters I wanted to know. ... To carry this off I had to plan every conversation in the greatest detail, word for word, even to facial expressions." For S. K. did not underestimate his task. It was: to out-Gestapo the Gestapo, already very active in Italy. Says S. K.: "We have all still got a great deal to learn from the Gestapo. It is a magnificent organization, and it will continue to be effective until...
...Viscount's chic, young (26) wife had her troubles, too. When she appeared at Elizabeth Arden's Bond Street shop to get a shampoo and facial, the manager marched her into a private office and said: "I don't want to embarrass you, but after what happened in Hong Kong there is not a girl here who wants to give you a treatment. You ought to go away before you are insulted. . . ." Viscountess Kano left...
Miss Grable walked away with the Lampoon's votes for the year's consistently worst performance. Though she made no attempt at self-defense, Miss Grable found many ardent partisans among Harvard men, most of whom insisted that acting is a subtle combination of many things besides voice and facial expression...
This time she has a part (Manhattan advertising copy writer) to play, and she plays it fairly well-despite her foreign accent, an inability to show any facial emotion but petulance, and a few clotheshorse mannerisms...
...Chinese, not as hairy as Japanese, seldom grow an impressive mustache. > Most Chinese avoid horn-rimmed spectacles. > Although both have the typical epicanthic fold of the upper eyelid (which makes them look almond-eyed), Japanese eyes are usually set closer together. > Those who know them best often rely on facial expression to tell them apart : the Chinese expression is likely to be more placid, kindly, open; the Japanese more positive, dogmatic, arrogant...