People: Feb. 25, 1929

"Names make news." Last week the following names made the following news:

Beecye Casanas was the name. There were 102 years of New Orleans tradition behind the phenomenon that made her, on Shrove Tuesday (last week) unique among U. S. girls. On that day, she was revealed as Queen of the Mardi Gras. In her honor there was revelry in the streets, promiscuous unmasking from dawn until dawn. She met her King, Businessman William H. McLellan, a gentleman with chiselled features and a liquid eye, at the Boston Club, where he drank her health....

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