•i waa uvmg ou ivcu »u **»*lt;*Orleans that I had time for arl and culture,” she said. ,4I volunteered to help raise money for the New Orleans Grand Opera Company. She said the opera people gave her a list of business men to call on, Jacques Mossier was on the list. He had an office in New Orleans thatyear.f “I weht to his.office and gof in- to see him,” she said/.He listened politely but told me he had no interest* in opera; Hewould grow that much before I could wear them. He put them on a shelf where I could see them from my bed/ 'Candy/ he said, ‘You’ll dance‘again.’ She did and dropped out .of school in the 11th grade to marry. ; • l,\ / •/Candy talked little of her years* of glory in Houston as Mossier's' wife, when she was mistress of a 28-room mansion; with’ an allowance of $5*700 a month to run ihe establislmient. We were verv. verv haaov.