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That news spread so fast through Veracruz that the next afternoon found 15,000 Catholics swarming menacingly in Orizaba, routing guards and forcing their way into the city's 14 closed churches, frantically ringing bells that had been silent for a decade. Hastily the city authorities canceled a Mardi Gras celebration that would have brought thousands more Catholics into town. Veracruz's youthful new Governor Miguel Alemán was so besieged during a visit to the Orizaba city hall that he slipped out a side door and made for nearby Córdoba. Apparently to stall...
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...
...glass- enclosed, air-conditioned altar, two downpours of rain scattered the faithful who came to worship in crowds of from 50,000 to 200,000 at a time. Also, to the scandal of strait-laced Filipinos, the Congress coincided with the annual Philippine Carnival, a 16-day combination of Mardi Gras, county fair and Coney Island which paralyzes Manila business for weeks. But the director general of the Carnival, Arsenio Luz, was chairman of the Congress Ways & Means Committee, and he canceled all balls, toned down sideshows...
...meantime I am going on trying to describe America in music." The America of Ferde Grofe (pronounced Ferdy GroFay), plump onetime arranger for Paul Whiteman and for the past five years a highly successful semi-classical musician on his own, is bounded by Manhattan (Tabloid Suite), New Orleans (Mardi Gras), Hollywood (Hollywood Suite). It includes scenic wonders (Grand Canyon Suite} and clanging industry (Symphony in Steel). Last week a Carnegie Hall audience heard all these works played by a 40-piece orchestra headed by the composer in his debut as a concert conductor. The audience found Grofe...
...only to the New York Yacht Club. Starting as an office boy, Mississippi-born Garner Tullis became a cotton firm clerk, then a trader, then one of the most astute traders on the New Orleans Cotton Exchange. He was Rex, King of Carnival in the 1935 Mardi Gras, highest social honor in the city. Partner Robert E. Craig II is 38, tall, slim, and a crack contract player who enters big tournaments with his wife...