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{SPEAKER name="MARTHA DEANE"}
Well, where did you end up anyway? Where were you at the time you sailed to come home?

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{SPEAKER name="LISA CHICKERING"}
Ah, well, Tokyo. I'd finished an engagement at the, in the Imperial Hotel there.

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And then we sailed, ah, from Yokohama on a cargo ship.

{SPEAKER name="JEANNE PORTERFIELD"}
There was no place else to go.

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{SPEAKER name="MARTHA DEANE"}
So while you didn't, you don't advise anyone to stay in these big hotels, you were, you did work in some.

{SPEAKER name="LISA CHICKERING"}
Oh, when I sing in them, yes, because -- [[laughter]] [[crosstalk]]

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For several reasons, first of all, naturally I want to sing in them, but we also get our room, and all our food, plus the salary.

{SPEAKER name="MARTHA DEANE"}
Oh.

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{SPEAKER name="LISA CHICKERING"}
So, I think then, by all means everyone -- [[crosstalk]]

{SPEAKER name="JEANNE PORTERFIELD"}
That's how we managed to save, you know, to go on to the next place.

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{SPEAKER name="MARTHA DEANE"}
Who took care of the money, you?

{SPEAKER name="JEANNE PORTERFIELD"}
Yes. Oh, I took care of the money.

{SPEAKER name="MARTHA DEANE"}
I think that's good, because in the little bit I've seen of her,-

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- she'd probably just lose it on the way, or something. [[laughter]]

{SPEAKER name="JEANNE PORTERFIELD"}
Well -

{SPEAKER name="MARTHA DEANE"}
And buy baubles and stuff.

{SPEAKER name="LISA CHICKERING"}
Yes, maybe a cobra from India.

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{SPEAKER name="MARTHA DEANE"}
Anyway, the last engagement was in Tokyo.

{SPEAKER name="LISA CHICKERING"}
Yes it was. And before that Hong Kong.

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And speaking of Hong Kong, it was so funny, it was the Peninsula Hotel there.
And it's just a beautiful, beautiful place.

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And I was singing this song - and you know, Jeanne always would tell them what lighting effects to have because that's an important part of a show, are the lighting effects -

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- and suddenly, here I was singing this love song and I was bathed in a deep green light, like Fu Manchu's wife ! [[laughter]]

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{SPEAKER name="JEANNE PORTERFIELD"}
It was terrible and I discovered...

{SPEAKER name="MARTHA DEANE"}
A mermaid !

{SPEAKER name="LISA CHICKERING"}
Yes, thank you, Miss Deane.

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{SPEAKER name="JEANNE PORTERFIELD"}
I discovered that a little bus boy, instead of the electrician, was doing the lights. I don't know how he got there, or why.

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But, for the first time in my life, I had to work the lights myself and get that terrible green thing off of her.

{SPEAKER name="LISA CHICKERING"}
Yes, he had a preference for green. He thought, "pretty, really pretty", he would say. "Green, pretty!" [[laughter]]

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{SPEAKER name="MARTHA DEANE"}
Now, what did you do in Hong Kong when you weren't working?

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{SPEAKER name="LISA CHICKERING"}
Well, a very wonderful thing, actually, that all women are interested in - we had clothes made.

{SPEAKER name="MARTHA DEANE"}
That's what I want to know about.

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{SPEAKER name="JEANNE PORTERFIELD"}
Oh, yes, it was a heaven for clothes.

{SPEAKER name="LISA CHICKERING"}
You know in Bangkok, in Thailand, they had this beautiful material that you saw in 'The King & I', the movie.

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If you noticed, it was the most beautiful material possible. In fact, this suit I have is this Thai silk.

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And we bought this material in Bangkok and then went on to Hong Kong and had the most beautiful clothes made from every kind of thing that you can think of.

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Suits, cocktail dresses, shoes, bags, and a suit there that would cost you with material and beautiful workmanship - a suit that would sell in the United States, in New York, for 350 to 500 dollars -