Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1921-06-23


yIIE ARE rather proud to be able to
w make this announcement -- and
the girls in the contest should be
proud too. Ordinarily, the Pathe news
reels are made up only of great hap.
penings that have a genuinely national
interest-that appeal to the people OF
San Francisco. Chicago, New Orleans
and New York. as we'll as Philadelphia.
The decision Of f. Cohen, the editor.
IN bring our contest into the class of
national events shows what reputa-
tion Philadelphia beauty has, and his
confidence that the EVENING PUBLIo
I,rpGER contest has gathered truly
representative bevy of beauties TO pre-
sent to the Nation.
III Mr.. Cohen could see the winners
thus far chosen. as we have been prlVi-
legged to see them he would be con-
WINGED that his confidence was not mis-
placed. Our lot has been a happy one
}or the last few days. and We expect
Il TO be much happier on Saturday. for
we have individual and exclusive charge
Of all fifteen of them, and we repeat
what we said the other day-wc don
want any assistants. 49,,
We're going to be stingy with this
lob. And you can't really blame us.
TO-DAY we are able to give three more
i Of the fifteen lucky girls. This
makes nine to date. and we venture
the assertion that. If we do NOT get
any more, the Betzwood folks ana tne
neople who 90 to see the Toonerville
Trolley comedies in which our girls a are
to act. will be perfectly satished' 10
days three are:
Marion and Rita Heist
We wish that we had been Torn twins
and that one of us lived at 2o3 ana the
other at 2O7 South Forty second street
The reasons appear on this page TO-DAY.
Marion and Rita Heist live at 2Oo.
That's reason enough.
Rita Is the older. She went to Upper
Darby High School and the School or
Design for Women. She is an ARTIST
and an esthetic dancer.
Marion went first to the Lea School'
ut Forty seventh and Locust strerls'
and then to West Philly High. She'
TOO. is dancer. and has appeared in
solo dances with the Philadelphia Oper-
attic Society. !,
Both Of the girls are secretaries IN
the Office of the Red Cross. at l6o'
Walnut street. And. oddly enough, the
photographs that they sent in TO thlS
contest we're the first they had ever mad
taken. Fancy
Rita is twenty three years old. tive
feet four inches tall. weighs 10 pounds
and has light brown hair and big blue
eyes. ..o
Marion is nineteen. is five feet three
inches tall, weighs los pounds ana has
n.it
Jet black lashes.
Madeline Ferris
We will have to call her Miss Ferris,
because that il her stage name. but
her real name is Madeline Coltrider and
she is a daughter of Horatio Coltrider
formerly of the Pennsylvania Railroad,
who lives at 1471 North Fifty third
street.
Miss Ferris used to live AT 727 Wolf
street. She attended the Southwark
School at Eighth and Mifflin streets
and later the South Philadelphia High
School, which she left last September
to take a position with vaudeville
act.
During her school vacations Miss
Ferris had done singing and dancing II
skid" acts. and when the chance came
tc get on a good circuit. she jumped al
It. She has been in vaudeville eve'
since, first with girl act, then in /
double known as Kelso and Ferris, ant
then with Sassy Bits of 1921 Th'
last act closed five weeks ago ant
she entered this contest.
She is only seventeen years old, Il
Eve feet six inches tall, weighs III
pounds and has chestnut hair witt
greenish blue eyes