Miss America 1927
Appearance
Miss America 1927 | |
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Date | September 9, 1927 |
Presenters | King Neptune (Eddie Dowling) |
Venue | Million Dollar Pier, Atlantic City, New Jersey |
Entrants | 75 |
Placements | 15 |
Winner | Lois Delander |
Miss America 1927, the seventh Miss America pageant, was held at the Million Dollar Pier in Atlantic City, New Jersey on Friday, September 9, 1927.[1][2] The winner was 16-year-old Lois Delander who competed as Miss Illinois. She won the Miss America title on her parents' twentieth wedding anniversary.[3]
After newspaper articles alleged that young women were being falsely lured into the competition with claims of a screen test and the promise of a likely film career,[4] public pressure resulted in the 1927 competition being the last pageant to be held in the 1920s.[5] The next Miss America pageant would not be held until 1933, during the Great Depression.
Results[edit]
Placements[edit]
Placement | Contestant |
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Miss America 1927 | |
1st Runner-Up |
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Top 5 |
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Top 15 |
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Other awards[edit]
Award | Contestant |
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Rolling Chair Parade Winner |
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Contestants[edit]
75 contestants competed for the title.
Represented | Name | Hometown | Age | Awards |
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Baltimore | Beulah Goldsborough | |||
Battle Creek | Charlotte Jane Lowe | |||
Biloxi | Phyllis Hunt | |||
Ethel Beatrice Pierce | ||||
Bridgeport | Antoinette Violet | Bridgeport | ||
Kay Armstrong | ||||
Canton | Erma Shorwood Steele | |||
Charleston | Mary Claudia Harvin | Charleston | ||
Myrtle Valsted | Chicago | |||
Moselle Ransome | ||||
Danville | Gladys Vile | |||
Denver | Elva Yvette Roy | |||
Elizabeth | Helen Mankus | |||
El Paso | Mildred Casad | |||
Flint | Ruth Bushroe | |||
Fort Worth | Juanita Gilbert | |||
Gary | Anna May Owens | Gary | ||
Hammond | Anna Howe | |||
Leona Faith Monoson | Hartford | |||
Huntington | Lillian Ward | Huntington | ||
Lois Delander | Joliet | 16 | ||
Jamestown | Laura Belle Cooper | |||
Jersey City | Eunice Geiser | |||
Kalamazoo | Florence Nina Clement | |||
Kansas City | Marion Kenser | |||
Lansing | Margherite Strang | |||
Lockport | Peggy Louise Proctor | |||
Lynn | Muriel E. Bowers | |||
Madison | Marjorie Leffingwell | |||
Marcia Hands | ||||
Sylvia Irene Brenner | Minneapolis | |||
Katherine Calloway | ||||
Newark | Carolyn Pierson | |||
New England | Marion Howarth | Fall River | ||
New Haven | Dorothy Barton | New Haven | ||
Gladys Renya Moore | New Orleans | |||
Freida Louise Mierse | Rolling Chair Parade Winner | |||
Oakland | Ruby Smith | |||
Evelyn Wilgus | Russells Point | |||
Passiac | Harriet Rita Shelby | |||
Florence Koons | ||||
Kathleen Coyle | ||||
Pittsburgh | Mary Millnack | |||
Pittsfield | Martha E. Hick | |||
Pontiac | Margaret Tinney | |||
June Frances Costello | Providence | |||
Rochester | Dorothea B. Ditmer | |||
Saginaw | Charlotte Elaine Bowman | |||
Naoma Farrand | ||||
Santa Cruz | Bertha Weizel | |||
Seattle | Eleanor Maddieux | |||
South Bend | Hilda Koch | South Bend | ||
Ramona Pearl Sorenson | Lemmon | 18 | ||
Southern California | Louise Heathman | |||
Spokane | Eva King | |||
Springfield | Anna G. Bernard | Springfield | ||
Storm Lake | Geneva Roberts | Storm Lake | 19 | |
Terre Haute | Vera Haspal | |||
Tulsa | Virginia Howard | Tulsa | ||
Union City | Sue Hoch | |||
Esther Kilpatrick | Salt Lake City | |||
Utica | Margaret Lockwood | |||
Gladys Cookman | ||||
Watertown | Eva M. Bergman | |||
Western New York | Betty Schwartz | |||
Wheeling | Mildred Dorothy Bright | Wheeling | ||
Wichita | Mildred Orr | |||
Wilkes-Barre | Esther J. Cantor | |||
Virginia Hillyer | Fort Atkinson | 17 | ||
Worcester | Dorothy M. Rawson | |||
Yonkers | Emma Sackett |
References[edit]
- ^ "Unbobbed Girl, 16, Wins Miss America". The Miami News. 1927-09-10. p. 1.
- ^ Associated Press (1927-09-10). "Joliet Girl, 16, 'Miss Illinois,' Queen of Beauty". Decatur Review. p. 1.
- ^ "Miss America History 1927". Archived from the original on 2012-05-02. Retrieved 2012-04-13.
- ^ "A.C. Beauty Contest Bunk: 'Pictures' Used to Mislead Girls - Flagrant Misrepresentatioas by Suggestion to Induce Young Women Throughout America to Enter Beauty Contasts in Hopes of Engagement in Hollywood Films — Adroit Wording to Gain Consent of Mothers". Variety. 88 (4). New York City: Variety, Inc.: 1, 43 August 10, 1927. Retrieved June 5, 2023.
- ^ Miss America: A History at www.missamerica.org