Comments on: Miss North Carolina 1933: First but forgotten?

By: Jack Hilliard

Jack Hilliard — Tue, 03 May 2011 00:23:43 +0000

If, as Donna Hay says, “…there was no pageant in 1934…” and Leola Councilman was selected Miss North Carolina in 1933, how and when was Margaret Richardson selected Miss North Carolina 1934?

By: Lew Powell

Lew Powell — Mon, 02 May 2011 21:18:23 +0000

Darn near everything, Kevin….

http://missamerica1933.com/missamerica.html

By: Kevin Cherry

Kevin Cherry — Mon, 02 May 2011 18:48:21 +0000

I wonder what went so wrong with the 1933 event . . .

By: Lew Powell

Lew Powell — Mon, 02 May 2011 15:55:21 +0000

Donna Hay adds this context for Leola Councilman’s exclusion:
“The 1933 Pageant was such a fiasco that there was no pageant in 1934, and in 1935 when it was reinstated [officials] cut themselves off from previous pageants, trying desperately to avoid the bad publicity of the 1933 pageant. “The Miss America Organization had little data on any of the 1933 contestants — they were missing the names of three contestants, and didn’t even know who was first runner up and who was second! So it was not personal that their histories have mentioned little of Leola — they tried to mention little of any of the contestants!”