| Miss America 1927 | |
|---|---|
| Date | September 9, 1927 |
| Presenters | King Neptune (Eddie Dowling) |
| Venue | Million Dollar Pier, Atlantic City, New Jersey |
| Entrants | 75 |
| Placements | 15 |
| Winner | Lois Delander.svg.png.webp){kind=small} Illinois |
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
Placements
| Placement | Contestant |
|---|---|
| Miss America 1927 | |
| 1st Runner-Up |
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| Top 5 |
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| Top 15 |
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Other awards
| Award | Contestant |
|---|---|
| Rolling Chair Parade Winner |
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Contestants
| State/City | Name | Hometown | Age | Placement | Awards |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Baltimore | Beulah Goldsborough | ||||
| Battle Creek | Charlotte Jane Lowe | Top 15 | |||
| Biloxi | Phyllis Hunt | ||||
 Boston |
Ethel Beatrice Pierce | Top 15 | |||
| Bridgeport | Antoinette Violet | Bridgeport | |||
 Buffalo |
Kay Armstrong | ||||
| Canton | Erma Shorwood Steele | ||||
| Charleston | Mary Claudia Harvin | Charleston | Top 15 | ||
 Chicago |
Myrtle Valsted | Chicago | |||
 Dallas |
Moselle Ransome | 1st runner-up | |||
| 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 | Top 5 | |||
 Hartford |
Leona Faith Monoson | Hartford | |||
| Huntington | Lillian Ward | Huntington | Top 15 | ||
| Illinois |
Lois Delander | Joliet | 16 | Winner | |
| 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 | ||||
 Miami |
Marcia Hands | ||||
 Minneapolis |
Sylvia Irene Brenner | Minneapolis | |||
 Missouri |
Katherine Calloway | ||||
| Newark | Carolyn Pierson | Top 15 | |||
| New England | Marion Howarth | Fall River | |||
| New Haven | Dorothy Barton | New Haven | |||
 New Orleans |
Gladys Renya Moore | New Orleans | |||
 New York City |
Freida Louise Mierse | Top 15 | Rolling Chair Parade Winner | ||
| Oakland | Ruby Smith | Top 15 | |||
 Ohio |
Evelyn Wilgus | Russells Point | |||
| Passiac | Harriet Rita Shelby | ||||
 Pennsylvania |
Florence Koons | ||||
 Philadelphia |
Kathleen Coyle | Top 5 | |||
| Pittsburgh | Mary Millnack | ||||
| Pittsfield | Martha E. Hick | Top 15 | |||
| Pontiac | Margaret Tinney | ||||
 Rhode Island |
June Frances Costello | Providence | |||
| Rochester | Dorothea B. Ditmer | Top 15 | |||
| Saginaw | Charlotte Elaine Bowman | ||||
 San Francisco |
Naoma Farrand | ||||
| Santa Cruz | Bertha Weizel | Top 15 | |||
| Seattle | Eleanor Maddieux | ||||
| South Bend | Hilda Koch | South Bend | |||
.svg.png.webp){kind=small} South Dakota |
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 | Top 5 | ||
| Union City | Sue Hoch | ||||
.png.webp){kind=small} Utah |
Esther Kilpatrick | Salt Lake City | |||
| Utica | Margaret Lockwood | ||||
.png.webp){kind=small} Washington D.C. |
Gladys Cookman | ||||
| Watertown | Eva M. Bergman | ||||
| Western New York | Betty Schwartz | ||||
| Wheeling | Mildred Dorothy Bright | Wheeling | |||
| Wichita | Mildred Orr | ||||
| Wilkes-Barre | Esther J. Cantor | ||||
 Wisconsin |
Virginia Hillyer | Fort Atkinson | 17 | ||
| Worcester | Dorothy M. Rawson | ||||
| Yonkers | Emma Sackett |
References
- ↑ "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. New York City: Variety, Inc. 88 (4): 1, 43. August 10, 1927. Retrieved June 5, 2023.
- ↑ Miss America: A History at www.missamerica.org
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