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Flesh and Fantasy (Universal). > An ugly girl (Betty Field) masks herself as a beauty for the New Orleans Mardi Gras, fascinates the man she is in love with, awaits with terror the midnight removal of her mask...
Missing were the private carfuls of big spenders, the planeloads of Hollywood merry-go-rounders and the toney tipplers who have made Derby Day an uproarious Kentucky Mardi Gras. Instead, local folks, with boom money in their jeans, jostled around wide-eyed as at a county fair -many seeing the Derby for the first time...
...carnival spirit usually reserved for its Mardi Gras, the New Orleanians prepared to add the war-orphaned East-West football game* to the seven lusty events (all for $10) that already constitute Sugar Bowl week. Sugar Bowl week is only seven years old. But it has already challenged the prestige of Pasadena's 25-year-old Rose Bowl. Nucleus of the program is a New Year's Day football game between the two best college teams available (at a guarantee of $70,000 apiece to their athletic departments...
...Boston. Many another baseball town has gone wild over a pennant victory. But Brooklyn's faithful fans-victims of an inferiority complex provoked by the pompous, pennant-heavy New York Giants and Yankees across the river-burst into a demonstration last week that looked like New Orleans' Mardi Gras, New Year's Eve in Times Square and the 1918 Armistice...
Star attraction of the season is the carnaval at Rio de Janeiro, which is some thing special even among the gay celebra tions of Latin America: a swirling four-day-and-four-night bender of lights, noise, tinsel and music that makes New Orleans' Mardi Gras look like a meeting of the Modern Language Association...