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...year ago yesterday . . ." drawls wistful, semi-costumed MARY PENNEBAKER, Radcliffe '51, Hot off the New Orleans delta, she's missing her first Mardi Gras over and reminiscing by trying to show three untravelled Yankees how to tell a Course from a Momus...
...half a century, New Orleans' fantastic Mardi Gras balls were strictly for the upper crust. Nobody without money, blue blood, or both gained membership in the secret men's clubs or "krewes"* which staged them. Before 1900 there were only five clubs: Comus, Momus, Twelfth Night, Rex and Proteus. They culled guest lists with pernickety care, asked only the fairest of debutantes to serve as carnival queens. But times changed. The socially ambitious began forming their own krewes...
...Orleans had 16 Mardi Gras balls. In 1946 there were 36. This year, a record-breaking total of 49 are being held. Last week, with Carnival Day (Shrove Tuesday) fast approaching, New Orleans' social whirl had assumed the proportions of a maelstrom...
...Mardi Gras balls all conform to a traditional pattern. They open with a tableau or pageant, followed by a grand march led by a costumed king and queen. Then masked members of the krewe dance with women summoned from the audience. Finally formally clad guests who have been watching from the galleries join in the dancing...
...many a New Orleans citizen there will be little rest even after all this uproar quiets down. It takes a year to plan a Mardi Gras, and 1949 would be along before you could say Comus Momus...