Paul Soniat
Paul Soniat is the Director of the New Orleans City Park Botanical Gardens.
He was born at the old Touro Hospital in New Orleans.
His family has been in New Orleans since 1727 and he grew up and later lived on the street bearing his family name.
Paul is a self- taught piano player, and has released two CDs, absorbing the sights, sounds, and flavor of New Orleans.
His first CD, titled" Born in New Orleans", was released in April 2005.
His second CD was released after Hurricane Katrina hit the Gulf coast and the New Orleans' levees failed.
This second CD is appropriately titled" Below the Water Line".
William Clemens (film director)
William Clemens (September 10, 1905 – April 29, 1980) was an American film director.
Born in Saginaw, Michigan, Clemens began his Hollywood career as a film editor in 1931.
His first directing project was "Man Hunt" in 1936.
His major credits include "On Dress Parade" with the Dead End Kids, two Perry Mason mysteries ("The Case of the Velvet Claws" and "The Case of the Stuttering Bishop"), three films featuring detective Tom Lawrence,
a.k.a.
"
The Falcon," four films based on the Nancy Drew series, and "Calling Philo Vance" in 1940.
Clemens' final project was "The Thirteenth Hour" in 1947.
He died in Los Angeles, California in 1980.
Ian Barry (director)
Ian Barry is an Australian director of film and TV.
Lisette Verea
Lisette Verea (August 27, 1914 - August 27, 2003) was a Romanian-born cabaret singer and actress, known for her appearance in the Marx Brothers film, "A Night in Casablanca" (1946).
Michael Govan
Michael Govan( born 1963) is the director of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art since 2006.
Prior to this, Govan worked as the director of the Dia Art Foundation in New York City.
Night in New Orleans
Night in New Orleans is a 1942 American crime film directed by William Clemens and written by Jonathan Latimer.
The film stars Preston Foster, Patricia Morison, Albert Dekker, Charles Butterworth, Dooley Wilson and Paul Hurst.
The film was released on July 1, 1942, by Paramount Pictures.
Peter Pasetti
Peter Pasetti( 1916–1996) was a German stage, television and film actor.
He played a number of leading roles in post-Second World
War productions such as the operetta film" A Night in Venice"( 1953).
From the late 1950s he appeared increasingly on television.
Brian Kennedy (gallery director)
Brian Patrick Kennedy( born 5 November 1961) is an Irish- born art museum director who has worked in Ireland and Australia, and now lives and works in the United States.
He is currently the director of the Peabody Essex Museum.
He was the director of the Toledo Museum of Art in Ohio from 2010 to 2019.
He was the director of the Hood Museum of Art from 2005 to 2010, and the National Gallery of Australia( Canberra) from 1997- 2004.
Paul Mares
Paul Mares( June 15, 1900 – August 18, 1949), was an American early dixieland jazz cornet& trumpet player, and leader of the New Orleans Rhythm Kings.
Mares was born in New Orleans.
His father, Joseph E. Mares, played cornet with the military band at the New Orleans lakefront and ran a fur and hide business.
Like many New Orleans cornetists of his generation, Joe Mares's main influence was" King" Joe Oliver.
About 1919 cornetist Abbie Brunies was offered a job playing in Chicago, and passed the offer on to Mares.
( Brunies thought his New Orleans position of doubling driving a taxi-cab and playing music was more secure than prospects in Chicago.)
Mares established himself as a respected band leader over a group of wild and strong willed musicians, as The New Orleans Rhythm Kings( N.O.R.K.) became one of the best regarded bands in Chicago in the early 1920s.
In late 1924 Mares returned to New Orleans.
He decided to play music on the side while taking over the running of his family fur& hide business.
He ran the business well and with his prosperity purchased 3 homes for himself and his relatives in New Orleans' new suburb of Metairie, Louisiana.
Mares's Metairie home was the site of a legendary jam-session in 1929 where Bix Beiderbecke and the other jazz playing members of the Paul Whiteman Orchestra jammed with the local New Orleans jazz musicians.
Mares also ran a restaurant in New Orleans called" The Chicago Bar- B- Q".
In the early 1930s he returned to Chicago where he opened up his" New Orleans Bar- B- Q" there.
The" P.M. New Orleans Bar- B- Q" became a gathering place for Chicago jazz musicians and home to numerous jam sessions, which Mares occasionally joined in.
Peter Levin
Peter Levin is an American director of film, television and theatre.

Question: Where did the director of film Night In New Orleans die?
Answer: Los Angeles