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With a graceful wave of his hand President Alfredo Baquerizo Moreno last week bade his people celebrate Martes de carnes-tolendas (Mardi Gras) with fitting abandon. Ahead were 40 days of fasting & prayer, but for Fat Tuesday the Rio Guayas had yielded many fish to be eaten; there were many casks full of vino tinto to be drunk; on almost every corner in bustling Guayaquil were vendors with carts laden with confetti, streamers and chizguetes (perfume squirters).* President Baquerizo Moreno had given his own granddaughter, Senorita Rosa Piedad Baquerizo, to be Queen of Carnival. Let the people...
...Lima, Peru, Mardi Gras revellers, unable to afford confetti, threw maize, rice, water, flour, soot...
...oldest (106) and most famed of U. S. civic celebrations. New Orleans' Mardi Gras Carnival is for local socialites a formal, exclusive occasion; for merchants and hotelmen, a golden harvest; for visitors and the man-in-the-street one good long party. Last week's party began six days before Ash Wednesday. Through packed streets lumbered float after gaudy float bearing the cinematic tableaux of the Krewe of Momus. Red, green, yellow and purple flares dimmed street lights, sent choking fumes up toward windows from which thousands of heads leaned. At the Municipal Auditorium the parade halted, maskers...
...driven from his home or church in Italy last week. To dramatize the passive struggle of the Church, Pius XI suspended all open air religious services and processions. Thus on Corpus Christi Day (which exuberant Italians have always celebrated in the street with the romp and frolic of a Mardi Gras fête) the only Catholic observances last week were services in church. To their subdued congregations, priests distributed printed copies of utterances by the Holy Father which censorship kept out of the Italian press...
...Stimson Henry Lewis decided, and the U. S. press was so advised, that they did not wish to recognize Friend Tang Shao-yi and his friends in Canton as the new Government of South China. Such it was, however, in fact. Canton celebrated the fact as New Orleans celebrates Mardi Gras. Flag-decked arches were put up. Cantonese, the southern excitables of China, cheered themselves hoarse & hot while Cantonese soldiers marched through the arches. Finally the new Cantonese Government officially established itself by swearing in a Cabinet: "The Council of Sixteen." In this Cantonese clique venerable Tang Shao...