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Publication: European Stars and Stripes Monday, July 22, 1968

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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - July 22, 1968, Darmstadt, Hesse                                The Beauty contest Rod issr1 i fat of  c -1 in the immediate Days following the crowning of Deborah Irene Bryant As miss America 1966 it was difficult getting a photo appointment How Many remember her now up a Beauty Queen s film contract rarely lasts beyond a few cups of Coffee in the studio  Page 12 Gail Karen Krislow mile quickly dimmed after being crowned 1966 Mill America Beauty. So far business Beauty or pity contests Start. Try to Queen though is Hollywood. Longer than the studio c the Ren curse on with a a is Here and by with its Commercio within Gaudy Regio America Mil Queen and a thing pointed maxes stage Ami Beac climaxes St Ogle rap first to third annual pageant appropriately manufacture Youthful Teof incentive Heap of trading its Sec crowning of Aulin who win the title Felting career to showed earned winners of tagged personal a pred from the lout a single pageant Nestle who even nes to a quickie Ever lasted for cups of Coffee in this  comes he Calendar Spring is moving in Swift is orment of highly Luty expositions. 11 be seeing the re binaries of miss Iverse miss Cotton of others every i spend Ferous Cli Atlantic City i Fey be Long Beach by the to world to this year was the teen International National to with High a hair tinting g up the Bill. The animation has a lot for it this time. Aice was broken do Campaign by the., Sweden s Ewa Jia Tely proceeded to irate of Candy in by Herald Heffernan Nana staff writer the movie now completing its filming in Hollywood and whose producers have put the Lovely 18-year-old blonde under contract. Beauty spectaculars have be enraging across the country for 50 years or More but before Little Ewa a Linand her Candy role came along none of the contestants had been a Leto Bridge the Gap Between Atlantic City and Hollywood. As a Veteran Hollywood Talent scout put it recently they re either too tall or too Short or they Don t have the necessary stability or temperament to make it in  modest Little area contests staged by newspapers or magazines or by county fairs or on College campuses have contributed far More usable Talent to the screen or television than any of Thelong established professionally tricked up expositions. For Many years it waste practice of major studios to sign a miss America or a miss universe Queen merely for the purpose of Drain ing off publicity at a bargain Price maybe $100 a week a Small part in a ?lldw4e, and then Goodby today with the Hollywood establish ment scattered into Little Independent groups no one bothers to give the Queen even such a mini break. Hollywood did manage to come up with a pair of outstanding contest winners in years gone by but they were plucked from competitions relatively Small and sectional. Most prominent was Gail Patrick who came to Hollywood in 1933 As the Panther girl contest waged through big City newspapers. Studying for a Law degree at the time Gail borrowed the clothes to showcase her personality. A girl named Kathleen Burke from Kentucky was chosen head Panther girl and played the Lead in a film of that title. Kathleen was t heard from after that. But Gail charmed studio officials and stayed on to make 50 or More features with top Billing. Today As Gail Patrick Jackson she is one of to s Foremost producers with Perry Mason As her chief credit. The other durable contest Winner did t make As Many movies As Gail. Jean Peters was voted the mos popular coed on the Ohio state University Campus and her Reward was Atrip to Hollywood. She might still be playing out her Deal with the Studi Oad hot Howard Hughes met and fallen i love with her As wife of the Gam bling resort s fabulous King she might be referred to a the Queen of Las  up up Jean Peters voted most popular coed at Ohio state University when 19, cashed in her Hollywood contract for millionaire husband Howard Hughes. A the stars and stripes Ewa a he be with Hollywood when in landed l9w�en International Crown and title role in i  
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