Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1916-04-04
Judges Have Difficult Task
Selecting Winner From
Among Scores of Dazzling
Contestants ="
By WARD GREENE.


Three pretty girls, the target for the
amid breathless silence and a vast
emptiness i'm the middle of the floor at
the Auditorium Saturday night while five
men in evening uress iuoked at them.
and looked at them, and wished they
could pick the entire trio for winner
of the Universal beauty contest.
One was i'm pale blue and another in
blue even paler, and a third in black
lace shimmering over white. And al
were very beautiful, so beautiful that
Colonel Joe Brown Connally heaved a
glorious sigh, echoed by the four other
Judges II. NJ. Atkinson, Major John S
Cohen, J. ID. Gortatowsky and Archie
Lee.
A few moments later William Old.
know, master of ceremonies, escorted
the palest blue dress to the musicians
stand.
THE winner of the beauty contest"
he said, lis Mrs. Louise Everett"
That's when the cambridge delega-
tion raised a shout from it's corner that
almost split the room, and Mrs. Everett
the belle of cambridge, waved her hand
and laughed and said she was very
much surprised"
That was the opening event of the
last night of the first annual Motion
Pictures Trades exposition, which be-
gan at the Auditorium Thursday and
ended in a burst of splendor and one
stepping at midnight last night.
BALL is THE CLIMAX.
The ball was a climax that outstrip-
ped in sheer attendance any similar af-
fair that has ever been given at the
Auditorium. The dress circle was pack
ed at 8 o'clock, when the contestants
for beauty honors began their parade
and as the minutes flew by people
streamed in the door so thickly that
by 10 o'clock the seats were damned to
the caves. and the ballroom floor was
a shifting, moving mass of humanity
where the foXtrotters forced their way
with about as much success as a high
school fullback bucking the Harvard
line.
Next year" said Fred Young. the
man who has been the moving spirit OF
the exposition and mainly by his own
individual efforts made the enterprise
the success it was. next year we will
have an exposition that will tear the
town open. This one has been great
as a starter but in 1917 it will be a
riot"
Mr.. Young was interrupted just then
to start the festivities. While the crowd
watched with eager interest, over a
hundred Georgia beauties tripped Quit in
a long line across the ballroom floor
little girls and big girls, blondes and
brunettes, thin ones and fat ones, short
girls and tall girls, but all dolled up in
finery that put the show shops to shame.
As they marched past the five judges,
standing in a booth at the far end of
the Auditorium. they were escorted by
Charlie Kessnich and Mr. Oldknow and
Britt Craig and other more or less prom
inent personages, who called out their
names with a ready presence a side
show barker might envy.
ROOFING is VEHEMENT
The judges selected the pick of the
lot, and the pick of the lot paraded
again and another pick was made. until
only seven girls We're left At this
stage of the game the roofing from the
sidelines for various favorites became
so vehement that the judges moved to
clear space i'm the center of the floor.
where they could hear themselves think
and get a running start for the gate
in case any of the disappointed started
reprisals.
Then the seven stood TO be stared at:
Miss Ruth Gray. Miss Anita Lawson,
Miss Helen Irving. Miss Marjorie John
son, Mrs. s. II. billiard, Jr., Miss Gladys
Roam and Mrs. Everett, six brunettes
and one blonde. The judges were