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Show X NEW 0BLEUTS . By MAON DIXON. NBA Service Writer. NEW ORIJBAN8, Aug. ' 7. King Carnival la going to stags a "comeback." "come-back." There are aix months er mora before thla glittering event, which has made Oerd! Oraa a eynonym for New Orleans all over the continent. But the merry monarch at hla mya-tertoua mya-tertoua Island abode la drawing bla coat alcove aeroea hla golden eky-place eky-place and shooting the motha out of hla flaaen wla m anticipation of another an-other short but merry retga evlr thla golden slippers threaten to disintegrate. disinte-grate. The names of these various ao-eletles ao-eletles are Com us. Momus. Proteus and Rex. The lest three have participate partici-pate In all of the celebrations. But Comus. most excluelve of all of the excluelve organlaatlono and an adjunct ad-junct of the Boston club, could not find It possible to hold Its revel In the prosaic auditorium. The burning of tha old French opera house came juat when with difficulty the carnival spirit area being revived after the war. At laat Comus la in line and light-tilng light-tilng rods are being run up from every housetop which aheltera a family with a daughter arabiUooa ta ahtne pleasure loving aemmunltjr. True enough there have beea bfardl Grae celebratlona since the war, each or them on a larger acale than Ita predeoeaeor. But the fact remains that none hao ever come up to the standard of tboae of aatelbellum days. The celebration of Isle, however, will be from all tndtoatlone the great-eat great-eat In the clty'e hlatory. Never before be-fore have carnival plana eome to a head so quickly. Per more than two montha the tap of the hammer and the awlah of the paint brush have emanated from a etrlng of one-tory building oa Iberville etreet. where the floats are being prepared and the hum of half a Hundred Bowing ma-chlnea ma-chlnea greets the pedeetrtan In the Vieu Carre, where ooetumee are being be-ing made. e e e To cap the climax, the first Cemue ball since the war la already being arranged. Aa everyone knowe who le familiar with Hard I Uraa. the celebration cele-bration of "Fmt Tueeday" Is preceded pre-ceded by magnificent belle at regular Intervale. They are given by tha va-rloua va-rloua carnival societies, each of which haa Ita queen and paradea with red Tare and float, heralde and eutrtdere, eourtlera and ladles In waiting. In the auditorium her majeaty helda court and la forced to dance until her I. aociety. . y ... I A qun ! t chon for Mch I of thM balls, honor nouh for nr on In Naw Or loans. But, of cougw, th rreateat honor im to rut ovor tha carnival itself. Manx ftro tha strings that ara batnff puli4 by ambitious motha rs acting aa csmpaljrn maiffra for aoclatr buds and, although eon ducted with tha utmost aaoracy, iha ha Hla for rsgal honors will ba waged with grsatsst fntanslty. As an svldanca of tha aacraey tandant upon Mardl Oraa qusans. It majr ba point ad out that not long ago a young woman, who waa daalgnatod aa tha c hole a for quan of tha carol-I carol-I val, narrowly rarapad balng dpoaad 1 at tba hist nointnt Har doting father had dararf to gtva out a photograph of his daughter to a nawapapar with Instruction that It could not ha print-ad print-ad or any man Hon mad of tha com-mlttaa's com-mlttaa's cholco until Mardl Graa day. A rival aaplrant got wind of tha 4m-partura 4m-partura from pracsdatves and only by tha narrowast margin waa pravantad from grabbing tha laurala at tba last mom an u Tha nam a of Rs ! navar mada known. In all antaballum calibrations Rax cam a to Naw Orleans from soma vagua Island kingdom tha day bafora Mardl Oraa, was racalved st tha dock wiin regal nonors. men aisappearea mystsrlously until ths following day, when he swsyed the scepter for twenty-four hours. This yesr the custom of coming to I ths city by water routs will be reverted re-verted to for the first time elnro the war. The feetlvltlee at ths doeke on 24enday will be second In Interest only to thoae on Tuesday, when the great parade la held. e . e e Prohibition haa had Ita effect upon Mardl Oraa and It haa been found necessary to resdlust the plana to meet the alleged arid epoch. In former yeara. whan nickel beer was a reality, Inateed af a memory, the tremendoua crowtle of merrymakers merry-makers joetled with rare good humor all over the business district until the small hours of the "xt morning. Now there eeema to be a disposition cn the part of moet of the spectators to gather In smsll parties at hvmea, where beer may be aupplantcd with liard stuff secured from tha ubiquitous ubiqui-tous bootleg r at M or mora a quart. However, Mardl Oraa Is Mardl Oraa and few Indeed are they "who get any sleep until Lent puts an end to the whining lass and the noleemaklng liaehinery of the eelebrante that adhere ad-here to custom and remain In the atreeta. |