Miss America 1924 , the fourth Miss America pageant, was held at the Million Dollar Pier in Atlantic City, New Jersey , on Saturday, September 6, 1924.[ 1] [ 2] Mary Katherine Campbell , who won the title the previous two years, placed as 1st runner-up. Pageant officials later instituted a rule allowing competitors to be crowned only once.[ 3] Ruth Malcomson competing as Miss Philadelphia was named Miss America of 1924 against a field of 83 entrants, the largest number of contestants in Miss America history.[ 4]
Second runner-up Fay Lanphier would become Miss America 1925 . Another of the finalists, Beatrice Roberts , became an actress who appeared in more than 50 Hollywood productions.
Miss America, Ruth Malcomson, and her mother, Augusta
Results
Placements Placement Contestant Miss America 1924 1st Runner-Up 2nd Runner-Up 3rd Runner-Up 4th Runners-Up Top 11 Top 16
Contestants Location[ 5] Name Age Placement Notes Altoona Katherine Brown Atlanta Estelle Bradley Top 10 Austin Vera Simpson Baltimore Mary Rose Kenny Bay Ridge Dorothea Kenna Beaumont Freeda Rowley Biloxi Vivian Ruth Shaddinger Birmingham Mildred Adams Boston Mildred M. Prendergast Bradley Beach Edith Wright Bronx Francis Harten Brooklyn Hildur Johnson Cape May Emily Borbach Top 10 Chicago Margaret Leigh 4th runner-up (tie) Columbus, Georgia|Columbus GA Anne Davis Columbus OH Lenore O'Ryan Coney Island, New York Agnes I. Leonard Cumberland, Maryland Gretchen Carney Dallas, Texas Etta Mae Collins Decatur, Illinois Virginia Lipscomb Delaware County, Pennsylvania Margaret McGee Elizabeth, New Jersey Helen Mankus Fort Worth, Texas Hazel Doolin Galveston, Texas Lorraine Holzhaus Greater New York, New York Margie Booth Top 10 Hammonton, New Jersey Alice Kind Hoboken, New Jersey Emerita Monsch Top 10 Houston, Texas Mary C. Wilmot Jackson, Mississippi Mabel Batson Jacksonville, Florida Roberta Russell Jersey City, New Jersey Bonnie Blair Johnstown, Pennsylvania Letne von Alt Lakeland, Florida Margaret Swindell Lancaster, Pennsylvania Stella Springer Los Angeles, California Lillian Knight 3rd runner-up Louisville, Kentucky Juanita Hobbs Manhattan, New York Alice Beatrice Roberts 4th runner-up (tie) Margate City, New Jersey Myrtle Marshall Milwaukee, Wisconsin Clara Ethel Koehler Top 15 Miss America 1922 & 1923 Mary Katherine Campbell 18 1st runner-up Nashville, Tennessee Ann Elizabeth Warner Newark, New Jersey Edith Becker Top 15 Newburgh, New York Mary Griggs New Orleans, Louisiana Louise Moore Top 15 Norristown, Pennsylvania Dorothy E. Gross Oakland, California Irma Frazier Oklahoma City, Oklahoma Willie Mae Stockton Top 10 Paducah, Kentucky Kathleen McElroy Pensacola, Florida Lottie Eitzen Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Ruth Malcomson Winner Aunt of Miss Pennsylvania 1956, Lorna Malcomson Ringler, and great-aunt of Miss Delaware 1981, Jodi Meade Graham Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Helen Steubne Pleasantville, New Jersey Gertrude McDonough Providence, Rhode Island Freida Leamon Queens, New York Mary Carlson Reading, Pennsylvania Nellie M. Paige Richmond, New York Melise Danning Rochester, New York Katherine Skuse St. Louis, Missouri Helen Moore San Antonio, Texas Katherine Hensley Santa Cruz, California Fay Lanphier 18 2nd runner-up Sioux City, Iowa Alta Sterling Somers Point, New Jersey Ethel Sipps Stamford, Connecticut Helen Haddock Syracuse, New York Alma Jeanne Williams Tampa, Florida Virginia McRae Texas City, Texas Thelma Kirsch Tulsa, Oklahoma Rose Everett Washington D.C. Helen Sweeney Watertown, New York Hilda Farrell West Palm Beach, Florida Frances Payne Wichita, Kansas Donna Frye Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania Theresa Matzer Yonkers, New York Florence Kreisler Youngstown, Ohio Pauline James Top 15
References
Secondary sources Saulino Osborne, Angela (1995). "Miss Americas and their Courts". Miss America The Dream Lives On . Taylor Publishing Company. ISBN 0-87833-110-7 .
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