Evening star., 1929-11-15
LONG-HAIRED GIRLS
COMPETE TONIGHT
Contest to Be Held as Fea-
ture of Food Show of
Grocery Society.

Those Washington girls who have
been allowing their shingled and bobbed
tresses to grow will have ample oppor-
tunity to show the fruits of their pa
tience tonight in the contest which will
determine the most beautiful suit OF
long haiR at the District Grocery So
ciety Food Show in the Washington
Auditorium.
Not only will they display the length
of their fashion -decreed long hair but
they will have a chance to show the
world and his wife how adept they have
become in dressing 1t. Tontght's COM
petition viii be In two Sections--the
first offering a basket % Sewers to the
girl adjudged to have the most neauti-
ful head of long hair, and the second
providing a basket Of food to the con-
testant who redreSSeS her hair most
quickly. The competition will be staged
on the platform at the end Of the ex-
hibit space. and the audience win de-
termine both winners.
If tonight's contest is predominantly
feminine, the program Is merely ball
ancing the victories won by the male
aggregation at the show yesterday aft
ernoon and last night. william Buster"
Beach Of 1884 Wisconsin avenue, s.
year -old contender in the first "happieSt
baby" contest of the show, staged yes
terday afternoon, won the enthusiastic
approval of the audience to triumph
over so other youngsters. He was
awarded the first of the daily prizes OF
$3.50 in gold.
Louis Evry. is years old, of 1885 F
street northeast, captured the bag of
food which was offered to the most
comic eater of spaghetti in last night s
contest. Louis won applause from the
delighted audience when he cast aside
the traditional knife and fork and
scooped up tangled masses OF the elu-
sive edible with his fingers to cram
them squirmingly into his mouth. The
crowds which attended the show last
night climaxed any recent second
night" audiences which have attended
the annual food shows.
Little Buster Beach commanded the
audiences approval with his bright little
smile, which divided his ruddy face
into two glowing cheeks. The other
babies who were entered in the first
"happieSt baby" contest included Hazel
Burton, 100 Kenilworth avenue; EStelle
Rehm Hyattsville; Gertrude and Irene
Berman, 1925 Allison street; Jane Davis
of Clarendon, Va; Lawrence HUFF, 1l20
G street northeast; Frances Lee Wilcox,
2804 Fourteenth street; Robert Marshall,
10 Randolph place: Shirley M. Connor,
20l9 Nichols avenue: Charles Stewart
Fulcher and Robert Lewis Tull, 221 F
street; William Thomas Thornhill, 21Q
Thirteenth street: Rose Ormsbee, 1116
Twenty-fifth street; Margaret Souther-
land, 311 Twelfth street southwest;
Billy Holland, SIT Somerset place; An
thony Altien, 902 Eleventh street; Helen
Faullds, 1921 Prout street; Billy Camp
bell. S12S Eighth street.
Murrell Holt, 51l9 Eighth street: Mar
jorie Brock Foster, asa Rhode Island
avenue; Ina Buman, S732 Ninth street:
James Finnley, 1918 Riggs place; Joseph
Vita, 1915 B street; Audry Cook, 1924 D
street southeast; Melvin Biron, 1906
Seventeenth street; Joyce Ridgeway,
6019 Second street; Mildred Reamy,
2721 Sixth street; Nillie McNeal, 1924
S street; Robert Snead, 1910 First
street; Lyall Steger, 3010 Cambridge
place; Charles Palmer, Is N street; Ar
thur Newman, 1882 c street northeast;
Shirley Young, 604 Grant avenue; Helen
Pusateu. 1853 Pennsylvania avenue;
Laura Fink, .2106 N street: Donaly
Wagon. Berwyn; Joan Blankenship: Eu-
gene Grimes, 110o Robinson street:
Katherine Mudd, Toe Seventh street;
Frank Linson. I'll Sixth street: Louisa
Maynard, 1851 Morse street: Billy Tay-
lor, 1921 Connecticut avenue; Josep1
Maggi, 1922 Orsen street: Dorothy May
Evans, 2316 Fourth street; Herbert Co
hen, 2404 Georgia avenue; Robert Ho-
ran, 34O1 Otis street; Louis Thomas,
lAl8 Irving street, ana Robert Mont.
gomery, the Alabama.