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January 1917
Sarah Bernhardt appears in several one-act plays at the Dauphine Theatre on January 28 and 29, 1917. It will be her last engagement in the Crescent City. She is seventy three years old and has lost a leg, restricting her repertoire. Despite her infirmities her voice was still magical and her manner charming and gracious. |
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August 1917
August 2, 1917 was a typical payday at the old criminal courts building. Besides policemen waiting for pay the corridors were filled with minor offenders, police reporters, lawyers and witnesses. In the superintendent s office nobody noticed Terrence ³Big² Mullen a huge but likable policeman who sang with the Police Minstrels but had frequently been disciplined for failing to appear for work for several days and had even been sent to an asylum for a year before being reinstated. Today he is again awaiting reinstatement in the superintendent s office when he suddenly leaps to his feet and fires a revolver into the face of chief James W. Reynolds. in the ensuing firefight Mullen and several other were wounded and 60 shots were fired. Mullen s cousin Captain Garry O. Mullen was killed by mistake. Terrence Mullen after days spent under heavy guard and strapped to a bed in Charity Hospital was committed t the East Louisiana Hospital for the insane where he died August 8, 1933. Reynolds was succeeded as chief by Frank T. Mooney, Illinois Central Railroad superintendent. |
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| The St. Louis Hotel and the Tile Roof Building on Chartres and Ursuline Streets, then thought to be the oldest building in the city are demolished. | Five white musicians, members of the Original Dixieland Jazz Band introduce jazz to America through a recording made in New York City. Storyville closed by order of the U. S. Navy after four seamen are murdered and the federal government prohibited open prostitution within five miles of a military installation. The vice business spreads throughout the city. The Dixieland style sweeps the nation. Jelly Roll Morton is a hit on the west coast. | When the United States enters World War I Camp Beauregard is established as a training camp five miles northeast of Alexandria. Later it is used for National Guard training. | |||||||||
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