| Miss America 1927 | |
|---|---|
| Date | September 9, 1927 |
| Presenters | King Neptune (Eddie Dowling) |
| Venue | Million Dollar Pier,Atlantic City,New Jersey |
| Entrants | 75 |
| Placements | 15 |
| Winner | Lois Delander Illinois |
← 1926 1933 → | |
Miss America 1927, the seventhMiss America pageant, was held at theMillion Dollar Pier inAtlantic City, New Jersey on Friday, September 9, 1927.[1][2] The winner was 16-year-oldLois Delander who competed asMiss Illinois. She won the Miss America title on her parents' twentieth wedding anniversary.[3]
After newspaper articles alleged that young women were being falsely lured into the competition with claims of a screen test and the promise of a likely film career,[4] public pressure resulted in the 1927 competition being the last pageant to be held in the 1920s.[5] The next Miss America pageant would not be held until1933, during theGreat Depression.
| Placement | Contestant |
|---|---|
| Miss America 1927 | |
| 1st Runner-Up |
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| Top 5 |
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| Top 15 |
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| Award | Contestant |
|---|---|
| Rolling Chair Parade Winner |
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75 contestants competed for the title.
| Represented | Name | Hometown | Age | Awards |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Baltimore | Beulah Goldsborough | |||
| Battle Creek | Charlotte Jane Lowe | |||
| Biloxi | Phyllis Hunt | |||
 Boston | Ethel Beatrice Pierce | |||
| Bridgeport | Antoinette Violet | Bridgeport | ||
 Buffalo | Kay Armstrong | |||
| Canton | Erma Shorwood Steele | |||
| Charleston | Mary Claudia Harvin | Charleston | ||
 Chicago | Myrtle Valsted | Chicago | ||
 Dallas | Moselle Ransome | |||
| Danville | Gladys Vile | |||
| Denver | Elva Yvette Roy | |||
| Elizabeth | Helen Mankus[6] | |||
| El Paso | Mildred Casad | |||
| Flint | Ruth Bushroe | |||
| Fort Worth | Juanita Gilbert | |||
| Gary | Anna May Owens | Gary | ||
| Hammond | Anna Howe | |||
 Hartford | Leona Faith Monoson | Hartford | ||
| Huntington | Lillian Ward | Huntington | ||
| Illinois | Lois Delander | Joliet | 16 | |
| Jamestown | Laura Belle Cooper | |||
| Jersey City | Eunice Geiser | |||
| Kalamazoo | Florence Nina Clement | |||
| Kansas City | Marion Kenser | |||
| Lansing | Margherite Strang | |||
| Lockport | Peggy Louise Proctor | |||
| Lynn | Muriel E. Bowers | |||
| Madison | Marjorie Leffingwell | |||
 Miami | Marcia Hands | |||
 Minneapolis | Sylvia Irene Brenner | Minneapolis | ||
 Missouri | Katherine Calloway | |||
| Newark | Carolyn Pierson | |||
| New England | Marion Howarth | Fall River | ||
| New Haven | Dorothy Barton | New Haven | ||
 New Orleans | Gladys Renya Moore | New Orleans | ||
 New York City | Freida Louise Mierse | Rolling Chair Parade Winner | ||
| Oakland | Ruby Smith | |||
 Ohio | Evelyn Wilgus | Russells Point | ||
| Passiac | Harriet Rita Shelby | |||
 Pennsylvania | Florence Koons | |||
 Philadelphia | Kathleen Coyle | |||
| Pittsburgh | Mary Millnack | |||
| Pittsfield | Martha E. Hick | |||
| Pontiac | Margaret Tinney | |||
 Rhode Island | June Frances Costello | Providence | ||
| Rochester | Dorothea B. Ditmer | |||
| Saginaw | Charlotte Elaine Bowman | |||
 San Francisco | Naoma Farrand | |||
| Santa Cruz | Bertha Weizel | |||
| Seattle | Eleanor Maddieux | |||
| South Bend | Hilda Koch | South Bend | ||
 South Dakota | Ramona Pearl Sorenson | Lemmon | 18 | |
| Southern California | Louise Heathman | |||
| Spokane | Eva King | |||
| Springfield | Anna G. Bernard | Springfield | ||
| Storm Lake | Geneva Roberts | Storm Lake | 19 | |
| Terre Haute | Vera Haspal | |||
| Tulsa | Virginia Howard | Tulsa | ||
| Union City | Sue Hoch | |||
 Utah | Esther Kilpatrick | Salt Lake City | ||
| Utica | Margaret Lockwood | |||
 Washington D.C. | Gladys Cookman | |||
| Watertown | Eva M. Bergman | |||
| Western New York | Betty Schwartz | |||
| Wheeling | Mildred Dorothy Bright | Wheeling | ||
| Wichita | Mildred Orr | |||
| Wilkes-Barre | Esther J. Cantor | |||
 Wisconsin | Virginia Hillyer | Fort Atkinson | 17 | |
| Worcester | Dorothy M. Rawson | |||
| Yonkers | Emma Sackett |
