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...been for the miniature cannon used to boom greetings to passing craft from her family's yacht, Carmelite Janvier might have lived out her days as a typical New Orleans socialite. Her sisters all made their marks as debutantes, and one was selected to be queen of carnival. But one day, when nine-year-old Carmelite was playing on board, the cannon accidentally went off. It destroyed one eye and nearly blinded the other. It also left Carmelite Janvier disfigured for life...
...found a way to help them. In 1925 she became the first of New Orleans' "visiting teachers"-a dedicated band of men and women whose duty it is to care for the school system's handicapped and troubled pupils. Last week, as 65-year-old Carmelite Janvier prepared to retire as director of the city's Division of Special Services, she and her colleagues were caring for nearly 20,000 children a year...
Little Laborers. At first, Teacher Janvier had wanted to be a writer. Though she could never see a blackboard, she managed to get through Newcomb College and to take an M.A. in English at Tulane. Then a friend offered her a job as a local factory inspector in charge of investigating child laborers to see if they were of legal age to work. "It was amazing," she recalls, "how people would try to change the records so that their children could go to work before they were 14. But even those who were 14 were pitiful little things who should...
Crowned Queen of the Mardi Gras Carnival was pretty Jessie Wing Janvier, daughter of Judge George Janvier of the Louisiana Court of Appeal, previously picked as Carnival Queen of the Twelfth Night Revelers and the Elves of Oberon. Her consort, Rex, Lord of Misrule, was President Albert Barnet Paterson of New Orleans Public Service...
...Official French War Pictures will be shown at the Boston Opera House tomorrow evening at 8 o'clock. The pictures were taken by M. Janvier, well-known as the first Frenchman to introduce into France the plays written by Shaw and Ibsen. M. Janvier has been stage manager for many years of the Odeon, one of the theatres controlled by the French Government and has been conected with the Theatre Antoine and Beaux Arts. He is now in the United States and is raising funds for Le Oeuvre Fraternelle des Artistes...