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...indigenous to the bayou country as Mardi Gras are pirogues (canoes dug out of cypress logs). Louisiana's first mode of transportation, pirogues are still used by Cajun and Baratarian trappers to navigate the swamps and bayous south of New Orleans. Pirogues weigh from 50 to 100 pounds, are 18 inches wide, six to 20 feet long. Among Cajuns and Baratarians (descendants of Pirate Jean Lafitte's band of buccaneers) a pirogue is a family heirloom, the result of two or three years of painstaking labor. First the tree trunk is scooped out with a mattock and fire...
That Pres Dillard is in trade (banking) is bad enough, but that he neglects his lady for business is worse. To chastise Pres, Julie wears red to the Mardi Gras' Olympus Ball, where unmarried girls traditionally wear white. To chastise Julie, Pres dances her feet off while proper and white-frocked New Orleans belles primly withdraw to the sidelines. That night Julie's good night to Pres is a slap fully as resounding as that which Scarlett O'Hara deals to Ashley Wilkes to give Gone With the Wind its real start. When Pres goes, Julie...
Concerning Charles Wakefield Cadman's Dark Dancers of the Mardi Gras, TIME, Dec. 13, I have a bit of additional information...
...Composer Cadman's title. Julia Mood Peterkin's 1928 Pulitzer Prize Scarlet Sister Mary, a somewhat less scandalous book than the title led the Portland Junior Symphony Orchestra to believe, inspired Composer Cadman to write Dance of Scarlet Sister Mary. After he had watched a New Orleans Mardi Gras he rewrote it, keeping the theme but less than half of the actual music of the original...
...somewhat neglected by sophisticated music lovers in favor of younger and more sensational composers, he remains one of the very few highbrow U. S. musical figures whose names are known to the U. S. man in the street. Last week his five-year-old suite, Dark Dancers of the Mardi Gras, received its first public Manhattan performance by the Philharmonic-Symphony under Conductor John Barbirolli. Dark Dancers is pleasant, rhythmic, imitative, is not likely to achieve the popularity that sold over 1,500,000 copies of his song At Dawning, composed 20-odd years...