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 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.
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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Award | Contestant |
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Rolling Chair Parade Winner |
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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 | |||
Boston | Ethel Beatrice Pierce | |||
Bridgeport | Antoinette Violet | Bridgeport | ||
Buffalo | Kay Armstrong | |||
Canton | Erma Shorwood Steele | |||
Charleston | Mary Claudia Harvin | Charleston | ||
Chicago | Myrtle Valsted | Chicago | ||
Dallas | 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 | |||
Hartford | Leona Faith Monoson | Hartford | ||
Huntington | Lillian Ward | Huntington | ||
Illinois | 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 | |||
Miami | Marcia Hands | |||
Minneapolis | Sylvia Irene Brenner | Minneapolis | ||
Missouri | Katherine Calloway | |||
Newark | Carolyn Pierson | |||
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 | Rolling Chair Parade Winner | ||
Oakland | Ruby Smith | |||
Ohio | Evelyn Wilgus | Russells Point | ||
Passiac | Harriet Rita Shelby | |||
Pennsylvania | Florence Koons | |||
Philadelphia | Kathleen Coyle | |||
Pittsburgh | Mary Millnack | |||
Pittsfield | Martha E. Hick | |||
Pontiac | Margaret Tinney | |||
Rhode Island | June Frances Costello | Providence | ||
Rochester | Dorothea B. Ditmer | |||
Saginaw | Charlotte Elaine Bowman | |||
San Francisco | Naoma Farrand | |||
Santa Cruz | Bertha Weizel | |||
Seattle | Eleanor Maddieux | |||
South Bend | Hilda Koch | South Bend | ||
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 | ||
Union City | Sue Hoch | |||
Utah | Esther Kilpatrick | Salt Lake City | ||
Utica | Margaret Lockwood | |||
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 |
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