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"The Caller." Sunday, Dinner menu. Canada Steamship Lines. T.S.S. Richelieu. Date of cruise unknown. Web search indicates the T.S.S. Richelieu sailed in the 1950s, which is consistent with the collection as a whole.
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T.S.S. Richelieu, Sunday, Dinner Menu; "The Caller"
"The Caller." Sunday, Dinner menu. Canada Steamship Lines. T.S.S. Richelieu. Date of cruise unknown. Web search indicates the T.S.S. Richelieu sailed in the 1950s, which is consistent with the collection as a whole.
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THE CALLER
Music and the square dance stand high amongst the simple pleasures enjoyed by the French Canadian - and every party has its "caller." At the Saturday night "veillee;"t and on such occasions as "fiancailles,"2 weddings or anniversaries, his "swing her high ... swing her low ... let the ladies through ... hop right in and hop right out again ... promenade a quatre" ring out in his own style. An artist himself, he captures the spirit of the evening and backed by his fiddler, accordion _ player or joueur de "piano a gause," he carries his audience through the intricate movements of the "quadrille,"3 speeding up to a ringing crescendo which leaves all happy and exhausted.
1. Evening, equivocal to Saturday night barn dance.
2. Betrothals.
3. "Square Dance."