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...Martha Granger Blair and Betty Field. New Orleans, The Times-Picayune's Anna Bolton Ellis, grey and gracious, has held her job for 32 years, is nearly as potent in her sphere as Cincinnati's Devereux in hers, assigning party dates and terrifying climbers. From January through Mardi Gras, New Orleans social-writers lead a hectic life, covering the highly organized festivities of their city. Seattle is a Democratic town. On its society pages from time to time
Thursday, March 2, and New Orleans was completely recovered from its Mardi Gras hangover-recovered as if struck by a douche of cold water, for that morning all Louisiana banks had been closed by proclamation. Hundreds of distracted visitors found they could not get funds to get home. Distracted thousands, natives and visitors, cursed Huey Long's Governor Allen, who the night before had entrained for the inauguration, who with his expense money in his pocket had dictated the proclamation and left it to be issued after his departure...
...means downhearted or broke, gay Brazilians have just spent an estimated $7,000,000 on their uproarious three-day Mardi Gras Carnival (Feb. 26-28). celebrated amid sizzling, record summer heat by nearly a million merrymakers...
...Monday. All will be happy." On Monday all banks opened for business one hour earlier than usual. The Hibernia ran a full-page advertisement (from which President Hecht's name was omitted), offering to pay each & every depositor on demand. New Orleans returned to its preparations for Mardi Gras...
...communities where the early Catholic influence has survived (New Orleans. Mobile), the community's annual civic celebration takes place just before Lent and is called Mardi Gras. In the central grain-&-pumpkin belt the organized merrymaking is scheduled to occur just after harvest time, when farmers used to have money enough to go to town and buy. Last week the chief cities in two big Western States were the scenes of such affairs...