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{SPEAKER name="JEANNE PORTERFIELD"}
And, then at about 4 o'clock - he must have thought we were English - in the back, in a samovar, they would prepare hot tea for us.

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With uh, and actually that's not uh, they would put the hot coals in, and blow on the coals and we would be served hot tea in our boat,-

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- in the middle of Lake Dal. Now that's pretty wonderful, and you can't get that--

{SPEAKER name="MARTHA DEANE"}
Oh, this I like. Tell me more.

[[laughter]]

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{SPEAKER name="JEANNE PORTERFIELD"}
Well, when we see the movies of it, we want to go right back, because it is the most ideal place in the world.

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{SPEAKER name="LISA CHICKERING"}
Oh it's a real Shangri-La.

{SPEAKER name="JEANNE PORTERFIELD"}
It is.

{SPEAKER name="LISA CHICKERING"}
It's gorgeous. I've never seen such a beautiful place.

{SPEAKER name="MARTHA DEANE"}
The house boat?

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{SPEAKER name="JEANNE & LISA"}
Oh, the whole community--

{SPEAKER name="LISA CHICKERING"}
You are surrounded by the snow capped Himalayas. The most beautiful setting in the world.

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{SPEAKER name="JEANNE PORTERFIELD"}
Of all the world, it is. All the world we saw. And also very reasonable.

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{SPEAKER name="MARTHA DEANE"}
Oh, I guess so!

[[laughter]] - 7 dollars a day for 2 with the food.

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{SPEAKER name="JEANNE PORTERFIELD"}
Well, we can beat that. Everbody's heard of Mallorca - Palma.

{SPEAKER name="MARTHA DEANE"}
Sure!

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{SPEAKER name="JEANNE PORTERFIELD"}
Well, we had a beautiful room overlooking the ocean and everything with all of our meals, $3 a day for 2.

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{SPEAKER name="MARTHA DEANE"}
In Mallorca?

{SPEAKER name="JEANNE PORTERFIELD"}
In Mallorca.

{SPEAKER name="LISA CHICKERING"}
Mm-hmm, yes.

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{SPEAKER name="MARTHA DEANE"}
I don't see why you ever left. [[laughter]]

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{SPEAKER name="JEANNE PORTERFIELD"}
[[cross talk]] No-- ninety dollars a month--

{SPEAKER name="LISA CHICKERING"}
I've thought of that myself since I've been back in New York.

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{SPEAKER name="JEANNE PORTERFIELD"}
Yes, prices have sky rocketed since we've been gone.

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So, we just think we'll go back to Mallorca forever, or Shangri-La. Up to Kashmir--

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{SPEAKER name="MARTHA DEANE"}
You were in India a long time, then?

{SPEAKER name="LISA & JEANNE"}
[[cross talk]] No. Not too long. About a month.

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{SPEAKER name="MARTHA DEANE"}
Did you work there?

{SPEAKER name="LISA CHICKERING"}
No I didn't. You see I worked in Istanbul just before that.

{SPEAKER name="MARTHA DEANE"}
And saved your money?

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{SPEAKER name="JEANNE PORTERFIELD"}
Ah yes-- It was a wonderful engagement at the Istanbul Hilton. And this was a place I was very nervous, because it was the first, ah, different type audience, you know, with different customs and all.

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We had been working with European audiences and lots of English speaking people, but this was the first completely Turkish audience.

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So I was just very worried that Lisa wouldn't get over to these people. But she always did. She adapted herself just beautifully - to the new audience, the new situation, and she just won them over completely.

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{SPEAKER name="MARTHA DEANE"}
Well, what kind of act did she do?

{SPEAKER name="JEANNE PORTERFIELD"}
Well, she does show tunes and special material. She sings numbers in French and in Spanish.

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And, ah-- Oh, she plays the piano, too.

{SPEAKER name="MARTHA DEANE"}
I should hope so,

{SPEAKER name="LISA CHICKERING"}
Being a Chickering, naturally !

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{SPEAKER name="MARTHA DEANE"}
If Miss Chickering doesn't play the piano, she can leave. [[laughter]]

{SPEAKER name="LISA CHICKERING"}
Good-bye!

{SPEAKER name="JEANNE PORTERFIELD"}
Yes! [[laughter]]

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{SPEAKER name="LISA CHICKERING"}
Well, you know, I must interrupt here for just one second. Because in Egypt, we had, ah, some friends that we met there, take us to see belly dancers. Now you don't just go to Egypt without seeing a belly dancer.

{SPEAKER name="MARTHA DEANE"}
Well of course!

{SPEAKER name="JEANNE PORTERFIELD"}
No--

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{SPEAKER name="LISA CHICKERING"}
So, I -- of course I was very shocked, and I said, 'Imagine!' And they said, well, this is our way of life here.

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So on New Year's Eve at the Istanbul Hilton they said, "Well, I hope Miss Chickering you don't mind but, tonight, you know, it is a Turkish audience, and you're going to have to share your billing with a belly dancer.

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Well, this was the first time I'd ever had a competition of a belly dancer and was on the same show with one, which was a new and novel experience.

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{SPEAKER name="MARTHA DEANE"}
Well, tell me about her.

{SPEAKER name="LISA CHICKERING"}
Well, my, I don't know if I should-- [[laughter]]

{SPEAKER name="MARTHA DEANE"}
Oh, go on, I'm older than you. [[laughter]]

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{SPEAKER name="LISA CHICKERING"}
Well, the bangles were going and - do you know here was this ah, well of course, it was an amazing New Years Eve because there were 5,00 people from all over Europe.

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It was the first New Years Eve that the Istanbul Hilton had been in existence.

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So it really was a fantastic thing with, uh, emerald tiaras, diamonds the size of, well what would you say? An orange --

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I've never seen, I, it really looked like a stage setting. But the Turkish people in that audience when this women did her belly dance they lost their minds! [[laughter]]

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So I think maybe I should incorporate it in my act. But they really do love it. It is part of their world.

{SPEAKER name="JEANNE PORTERFIELD"}
Oh, it is a standard part of their entertainment. The show isn't complete to those people without a belly dancer.

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{SPEAKER name="MARTHA DEANE"}
This is an old Egyptian custom?

{SPEAKER name="LISA & JEANNE"}
[[cross talk]] All the Middle East. All of it. All the Middle East.

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{SPEAKER name="JEANNE PORTERFIELD"}
But Lisa held her own beautifully! [[laughter]]

{SPEAKER name="LISA CHICKERING"}
Oh well, [[laughter]] I don't know how to take that.

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{SPEAKER name="MARTHA DEANE"}
This is carrying press agency too far!

{SPEAKER name="LISA CHICKERING"}
[[cross talk]] Yes, I --

{SPEAKER name="MARTHA DEANE"}
It really is!

{SPEAKER name="LISA CHICKERING"}
-- think that I agree with you!

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{SPEAKER name="MARTHA DEANE"}
I don't know, I think your press agent has gone too far.

{SPEAKER name="LISA CHICKERING"}
Now, I'm going to tell you she was the belly dancer.

{SPEAKER name="JEANNE PORTERFIELD"}
That's about it.

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{SPEAKER name="MARTHA DEANE"}
Could malia... Wait till it... Have you girls been home to Chicago yet?

{SPEAKER name="JEANNE PORTERFIELD"}
Well, we-- Yes, we drove through -- and drove out again. But, we just stayed a couple of days to say hello to family and get back here.

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{SPEAKER name="MARTHA DEANE"}
But I'll bet 5,000 dollars, you didn't tell this story!

{SPEAKER name="LISA CHICKERING"}
Well, ah, no I didn't. [[laughter]]

{SPEAKER name="MARTHA DEANE"}
Leave this one out for the family in Chicago.

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Well when you came back, you landed on the West Coast!

{SPEAKER name="JEANNE PORTERFIELD"}
Yes, you know, and I've always dreamed, I've sat many times - I lived in San Francisco for a while and -

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- I had sat out there and looked at that Golden Gate and dreamed of the far away places of the Orient that lay on the other side of the water.

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But never, ever once dreamed I would come through that Golden Gate from the other end, ever, from the - what is it - the west, coming east. So that was really a very thrilling exp--

Transcription Notes:
not sure all the voices are all identified correctly --> I think the second half must be correct, but I am unsure of the first half, those names could easilt be flipped, md