The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1907-04-28

about TO leave lhe room. Suddenly
James Rice sprang 20 the camera with:
There. Don't move! That's fine"
Add in fash there was taken the
photograph, which, while &c is lovely
enough 70 win the prize, is not so love
ly as its original
The Sunday Times congratulates the
city and ItScIf on having found SO love-
lly q woman to uphold WashingtoRs
claims in the national contest
Prizes Won by Miss Rice.
To Miss Rice. as the winner Of the final
contest Will come the following prizes.
a gold watch from r. Harris * CO.
An evening wrap from s. Kann, Sons
< Co
one dozen $25 photographs from the
( Towles studio.
But the greatest prize Of an VIII be
her position as the representative of
Washington I'm The national contest. This
competition between the cities. sections
1 and States of the Union TO determine
/ who Is the most beautiful woman In the
United States will be grand event
/ IL viii be Judged by men and women
of national and international repute. peo-
I pie SO Vel versed I'm those things that
go 20 make up art and the Beautiful
4 that their verdict will carry weight with
! All civilization.
When all the candidates have been
/ selected, they will represent practically
every large city. section and State OF
the country. They viii be the few
! chosen from 10000 or $1,000 photographs.
I because these. preliminary contests have
/ been carried On by more than 500 news
/ papers. and the search for lovely women
has been detailed and exhaustive. Such
q galaxy of beauty will eclipse by far
any other gathering of lovely women
/ known in the history Of the world. The
woman who wins the prize most beau
/ tiful i'm America" viii be famous for
} generations and generations 20 come.
/ In conducting it's Beauty Contest, the
( Sunday Times is anxious for the render
/ ing Of the final award.
Beauty Display at Kann's.
/ Tomorrow the beauty display OF photo
/ graphs that were entered IN The Sunday
/ Times beauty contest viii be displayed
on the NTH floor Of S. Kann. Sons d
/ Co. building. The multiplicity of the
! photographs kept the six artist deSora-
/ tors busy. until late yesterday afternoon
arranging the mammoth DISPLAY of fem
/ mime lovelincss. There are 1.SoJ photo
graphs
The photographs are arranged on
/ dark green walls ten feet high on the
| Gfth floor of the building. and some of
the larger pictures are placed on esseIs.
! The general effect and the Individual
/ photographs form a scene of great
/ loneliness.
/ In conducting it's Beauty Contest the
/ Sunday Times has had the assistance
! OF many persons I'm Washington who
] have acted I'm various capacities. First
! there has been the general public which
| took an interest i'm the contest greater
/ than anyone could conceive except those
! connected with the paper. and I'm a way
which brought them into the direct con-
! duct of that feature.
Excellent Work Of Judges.
Eighteen artists Of Washington formed
/ the six boards Of judges which decided
/ the FIVE weekly contests and the final
/ contest. A satisfactory handling OF the
feature would have been impossible
/ without the assistance Of these or other
Fartists. and The Times Is deeply grateful
/ to these men and women who gave their
/ time 10 the affair ard Judged. 20 their
very best ability. the relative merits Of
The young women who successfully com
peted for the weekly prizes. The list
/ of judges and beauties were
/ Final contest-W s. j. Dunbar. Har-
/ old l. Macdonald and Miss Clara Bar
rett-Strait selected Miss Eola Rice
First weekly contest-AIss Mathilde
/ Mueden. j. b Morrey. and Felix Ma
/ honey selected Miss Mae Huclller.
I Second weekly contcst-E. Il. Miller.
/ Shelby Clarke. and Miss Leila Mecnim
| selected Mrs Stanton r. Norman.
Third weekly contest-DIss Grace f.
/ Atwater. James Henry Noscr and Jack
Smith selected Miss Francis /. john
son.
Fourth weekly coutest-AIrs. Lillian
/ Cook-Doherty. Miss Bertha E. Perrie
and Miss Berta NJ Hanson selected Miss
/ Amelia Hager.
Fifth weekly contcst-Robert Coleman
! Child, c. X Bergman. and Miss AIine
Solomons selected Mrs. Joseph c. Rice.
Assistance of Photographers.
Another great service rendered The
/ Sunday Times was that of the pnotog-
/ raDhers who, at the request OF The
: Sunday Times gave sittinSs TO the
] 'f's'A''t NN-llAaNtf'Nt1 AAN AAl0 AOA lAG Iktkl
! TO have any photographs to enter in the
/ contest BY arrangement made with
/ them by The Sunday Times. card
! given By the paper 20 the young ladies'
entitled them 10 sittings at the studios
/ of the photographers.
: These photographers. who did so much
/ to make the contest "A success. were:
! Atkinson. 14l6 Fourteenth street
Bachrach, 1881 G street
! Bell, 1927 q street
Boyce. 1925 r street.
Buck, ll13 r street.
| Gilbert, COZ Eleventh street
Harris < Ewing. 1911 r street
Merritts 9O7 Pennsylvania avenue.
/ Paine 923 T. street.
! Parker. rs r street
Prince, Eleventh street and PennsyI-
( Yauia avenue
! Rice, 1903 r street
! Towlcs. 1107 street.
And the National Theater, Too.
! A pleasing feature of the contest was
the courtesy of the National Theater in
placing each week at the disposal Of
the winner of the contest a box at any
! performance the fortunate young wo-
] man desired IN