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Canadians still like snowshoeing. Quebec alone has 75 clubs de raquette, innumerable snowshoe festivals. Last week, in that quaint old city, 4,000 U. S. and Canadian raquetteurs gathered for their annual get-together. In Mardi Gras mood, with bands tootling, they paraded through its snaky, snowy streets, dressed in the gaily colored winter costumes of the French-Canadian settlers...
Last week, after taking it out of moth balls twice before when times were good, Chicago's Washington Park-with all the fanfare of a Mardi Gras-staged a $62,000 revival of the American Derby, aimed to make it once more the richest three-year-old race...
Yesterday morning during the solemn rites in the sunny Eliot Kirkland triangle the Class of 1940 applauded when the Senior Orator said that "America must not again by dragged into the anarchy that is Europe." Two bouts later, in the mardi-gras atmosphere of the Stadium, they booed the 1915 Ivy Orator's incongruous and long-winded speech when they discovered that he was no longer being funny, but was speaking in deadly earnest. Presumably they booed because his empty rhetoric and talk of not being "too proud to fight" was a stale attempt to blur the complex issues...
...Senator Loganberry takes rank with his Ambassador Goodhue and his Vice President Throttlebottom. A dazed, roly-poly babe-in-the-wood, he is probably surprised that he casts a reflection in a mirror. He has never been better than when, dressed as a fat Roman Senator for the Mardi Gras, he wails helplessly...
...midnight, when the family trade has presumably departed, Gay New Orleans offers a third show called Mardi Gras Frolic. This is a somewhat bolder type of entertainment. The clown, for example, who earlier in the evening cavorted on a lamppost, now cavorts on a huge statue of a nude. Muriel Page does a dance symbolizing the moth & the flame, in which her wings get burned and the rest of her clothes are hastily doffed to prevent the fire from spreading. But the spirit of burleycue reaches its climax with a "Wonder Woman" named Carrie Finnell, who has no wings...