Movie Makers (Jan-Dec 1949)

56 LOVELY ELMSCOURT, with its lacy New Orleans ironwork, is one of the very few Creole-type homes in Natchez. Indoor scenes are unlikely in movies. Welcome to Natchez MAJOR JOHN F. BANKS NATCHEZ — Queen of the Mississippi — spreads her roots deep in the rich and fertile soil of the Old South, with her traditions, fables and pageantry binding her to a remote and glamorous past. Once the pride of a great cotton empire, the elegant center of culture and graceful living, Natchez is today one of the loveliest and most eloquent reminders of a chivalrous, romantic era long since vanished. GARDEN CLUBS THE HOST The combined efforts of the Natchez Garden Club and the Pilgrimage Garden Club produced several years ago the first Natchez Pilgrimage, now become an annual event of national renown, with colorful traditions of its own. This year's Pilgrimage begins on March 5 and continues through April 3. For four weeks the townspeople will don the costumes of the 186CTs, throw open the doors of their storied ante bellum homes and regale visitors with colorful tales and tableaux of the Old South. The gentle melodies of Stephen Foster will displace the juke box hit tunes of the moment, to drift along the shaded streets and garden paths, filling the air with nostalgic memories of yesteryear. And visitors, surrounded with the STATELY STANTON HALL, left, is the restored home of the Pilgrimage Garden Club, co-sponsors, with the Natchez Garden Club, of the Pilgrimage. CLASSIC DUNLEITH, with its dominant Doric columns on all four sides, is rightly regarded as a perfect example of Southern Colonial architecture.