The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1924-09-06
Annual Pageant
Grand Display
Pleasantville Float and Occupant
Receive Rousing Applause All
Along Line of March.

The annual Atlantic City Pageant
this week was better than ever and
drew record-breaking crowds. The
mainland was well represented in the
vents and contributed its quota OF
the throngs.
Somers Point took fourth prize in
the Middle Atlantic division of Inter
City Beauties, and fourth in the divi.
sion of Outside Cities. Mortified
captured fifth place in the Outside
Cities, while Pleasantville, although
its float representative, Miss Gertrude
Marlborough, was cheered all along
the line, failed to find favor in the
judges eyes.
Miss Ethel Sipps, who was declared
the prettiest bathing girl in the bay
side resort, won an honorable mention
in the parade Thursday morning and
a similar honor in the rolling chair
parade in the afternoon.
The float the Somers Point Cham
Der of Commerce had entered in the
rolling chair parade was placed in the
Municipality division and captured
fourth place. while the rolling chair
entered by Mortified in the same d.
vision took fifth place.
The P~leasantville float was in the
inter-city division. 1t showed our city
as the gateway to the worlds play
ground and was, indeed, a fine piece
of work. Preceding it marched Sam
uel ]. Stoloff, j. Vincent Sharpe, Louis
H. Allen and William j. Schi1ling,
active members of the Chamber of
Commerce, who sponsored the exhibit.
It was pulled by Troop Z, Boy Scouts
of America, the new community troop.
1t represented a portion of the mea-
dow boulevard. with Pleasantyille at
one end and Atlantic City at the other.
A tiny motor car, which actually con
tanned a motor and would run under
its own power, was on the road to the
mainland section, and Miss MacDon-
ough, Miss P~leasantville, was at the
wheel.
Miss Marlborough was dressed in
a powder blue crepe de chine gown,
trimmed with red roses and gold
braid. A cape of similar material
hung oyer her shoulders, and she wore
a large blue picture hat. trimmed with
pasteo roses. Powder bule stockings
and black opera slippers completed
the picture. She wore a yellow sports
costume in the morning.
Miss Sipps was dressed in a yellow
sports costume in the morning parade
and in the afternoon wore a pink
1tfepe dress trimmed with white silk
lace. She was greeted with applause
the long way up the walk morning
and afternoon.
Both girls received handsome bou-
quets of roses for their rooms, Miss
Sipps at the ST. Charles and Miss
MacDonough at Galen Hall.
In the Somers Point float in the
Municipal division was Miss Sadie
Braun, who was accompanied by three
other girls. Miss Roberta Keen. Miss
Margaret Margerum and Miss Marion
Schenck.
At the National Beauty Tournament
at the Garden Pier in the evening,
when selected beauties from the IS
competing cities were judged in even.
ing costume for prizes, Miss MacDon'
ough was dressed in a canary taffeta
evening gown, trimmed with gold lace
It was of the bouffant style. Her
| slippers and stockings were of a gol
den hue and she wore a gold band
about her hair. She wore a raccoon
fur coat to the pier.
Miss Sipps was dressed in a pink
chiffon gown, covered with gold lace
| She wore white slippers and white
stockings. > Both girls were accom-
panied from their hotels and to the
piers by their chaperons. Miss Mac
Donough is chaperoned by her parents
Mr.. and Mrs. James MacDonough
while Mr.. and Mrs. Lewis B. Matthias
are caring for Miss Sipps.