Word: mardi
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Chosen from among New Orleans debutantes to be Queen of the Mardi Gras Carnival was slim, brown-eyed Cora Stanton ("Coco") Jahncke, daughter of Hoover's Assistant Secretary of the Navy Ernest Lee Jahncke, great-granddaughter of Lincoln's Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton. A daughter and sister of Carnival Royalty, "Coco" Jahncke was born in 1915 on Twelfth Night (Jan. 6), official opening of the New Orleans Carnival season. That year her father was Rex, Lord of Misrule, King of Carnival. Small "Coco" received a scroll designating her Princess Royal. In 1929 her mother, Cora...
James Edward Davidson is a name to command respect among Nebraskans. In 1923 Mr. Davidson was King of Ak Sar Ben (Nebraska spelled backwards), Omaha's Mardi Gras. In 1929. by courtesy of the American Legion, he was First Citizen of Omaha. He is president of Nebraska Power Co., past president of the National Electric Light Association. Mr. Davidson was reported dissatisfied with ihe disrespectful treatment which Dr. Sealock's young instructors gave private ownership of public utilities...
University: "Handy Andy"--Will Rogers in a very amusing comedy in his particular homespun manner. Some hilariously funny scenes at the New Orleans Mardi Gras. "The Defense Rests"--all about a master criminal lawyer who wins every case he handles and ends up in the loving arms of his blonde secretary. On Sunday the change of program brings the very excellent "One Night of Love" with the captivating Grace Moore. Also the screen adaptation of Bruce Lockhart's exciting story of his experiences as British consul in Moscow in 1917 and 1918, "British Agent...
...sight to behold in his plus fours and outspoken golf hose. The round of gaieties only increases Andy's yen to get back to his drug store and the back-room games of pinochle with the town "doc" and when his wife drags him off to the New Orleans Mardi Gras he makes his bid for freedom by showing her that he can play with the best of them. As the somewhat inebriated Tarzan at the Grand Ball, Mr. Rogers is screamingly funny, so much so, in fact, that his wife consents to his return to the store...
...What Mardi Gras is to New Orleans and the Derby to Louisville, the 500-mile classic is to a city which once rivaled Detroit as an automobile manufacturing centre. Last week a crowd of 135,000 was sitting in the unroofed stands when the 33 cars, after gathering speed for a lap, rolled past the starter in groups of three. Around the 2½-mile brick oval with an unsteady, insistent roar, sidling awkwardly at the turns, straightening out for speed on the straightaways, whirled the bright-hued machines hardly bigger than toy-store cars. After 30 miles George Bailey...