The Washington times., 1938-04-25
Walter Wnchell Sweepstakes Entrants March in Review
ONE week LEFT.
FOR US. GIRLS TO.
ENTER CONTEST.
Better Hurry, Cause
The Prize Is High


With Government agencies and
bureaus still busily seeking their
most beautiful girls to enter them
In the Walter Winchell Sweep
stakes, and with photographs and
entry blanks coming thick and
fast to the desk of the Sweep
stakes editor, The Washington
Times today had assurance from
three of the Capitol's outstanding
artists that the judging would be
strict and thorough.
The three who will pick from
the departmental entries the Miss
Interior, Miss Treasury, Miss Sen
ate office and representatives of
the other departments are:
Muriel Jane Austin, sculptor,
Of Corcoran Art Gallery School.
Wolcott Waggaman, architect
and painter.
Robert Gates, painter, of the
Phillips Gallery.
SELECT SEMIFINALISTS
These three will also select the
semifinalists at the Capitol Thea
ter the evenings of May 4 and s.
the 10 most beautiful of all the
entries in the Sweepstakes to
prove that Walter Winchell was
wrong when he published in his
column in the Washington Herald
that there are no beautiful
women in the Government serv.
Ice"
One more week remains in
which to enter the Sweepstakes.
Entries will close at midnight on
April 30-next Saturday night.
Then, on May 1, 2 and 3, the
judges will select the girls who
will represent their departments
in the semifinals.
On May 4 and the girls will
appear at the Capitol Theater,
where the 10 most beautiful will
be selected-five each evening.
WINCHELL TO JUDGE
Then, the first date thereafter
on which Walter Winchell can
come to Washington probably
within week or 10 days-he will
personally pick from the 10 semi
finaliSts, the Miss washington
who will for three days be his per
sonal guest in New York.
The winner will fly to and from
her date" with Winchell in one
of the Eastern Airlines' luxury
liners as the personal guest of
Col. Eddie Rickenbacker. She will
be outfitted with a travelling suit
and an evening gown by the Model
Shop, 1903 F st. N. w., and she
will have the most glamorous
three days a New York visitor
could possibly have.
PERSONAL GUEST
AS Winchell's personal guest she
will see a Broadway first night
she will see Radio City from the
''inside" may even be Winchell's
guest on his Sunday evening
broadcast over NBC'c coast-to-
coast network, which is heard in
Washington over WMAL.
She will dine in the famous
restaurants, dance in the brilliant
night clubs, and meet the celebri-
ties who are Winchell'S pals
as we'll as right with him in his
famous specially equipped private
"police car"
And the most beautiful Virginia
entry-Whether she becomes Miss
Washington, or not, will spend a
week end at the Cavalier Hotel
at Virginia Beach as the gt1Ost of
Roland Taton, the manager, and
of Down Country Magazine, of
which J. v. Lucas is editor.
DEADLINE NEAR
The inter-departmental "feuds'
are going strong-and the boys
and girls who work for Uncle Sam
are determined to prove by flesh
AMI blood beauties that the an.
onymous newspaper executive"
who told Winchell the Govern
ment girls were "duds" was very,
very wrong.
All you have to do to enter is to
send photograph with the entry
blank which you will find in an
other column of today's Times.
You will also find the rules printed
for your convenience. Remember
Saturdays the deadline for the
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