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THE MOVING PICTURE WEEKLY
The bathers' lineup before the judges in Seal Beach Bathing Surf Contest. Edith Roberts, the winner, is third on next page
from the left of the same page are June Bush, Nell Christie
FEW weeks ago Priscilla Dean won a bathing suit prize at Venice before a large and admiring gallery. The prize was given for the most unusual and beautiful bathingsuit. Now it is little Edith Roberts, who is just startmg
her career as a separate and individual star in five-reel pictures, who has won the latest bathing-suit prize. It is the second within a month for the Universal, which is a pretty high average.
The contest in question was held at Seal Beach, and was widely advertised. Over 30,000 people watched with admiring interest while the perturbed judges endeavored to select the most beautiful ensemble among sixty Venuses who entered in contest. Most of them were photoplay stars from the various moving picture studios which surround Seal Beach. The final up-shot of the matter was that the judges were forced to give three first prizes and six second prizes.
As the procession of feminine beauty in gaudy and fetching costumes passed in review before Mayor John C. Ord over the two miles of Sealway from Aniheim Landing to Seal Beach, the Mayor and Mrs. Bert St. John, and Mr. D. W. Callahan, evinced more and more perturbation. The job of Paris to this cavalcade was no sinecure, and well they know it. The jury retired for consultation -•^ and mutual support after the parade, and sent out as a verdict the following names as prize winners: First
Edith Roberts and the L-Ko Be
prize — Edith Roberts of the Universal, Eva Novak of the L-Ko, and Mildred Lee, also a photoplayer. Second prizes — Margaret Gibson, Hazel D'Arche, of the Bristol Cafe, Babe Henderson of the L-Ko Kompany, Dorothy Foster, and Mary Mack. Third prizes — Margaret Huxley, Peggy Owens, Gladys Varden and Nell Christy, both of the L-Ko, and to seven other local aspirants. Then they disappeared in the crowd, their duty nobly done, to escape from the recrimination of the forty or so beauties who received no prize.
Miss Roberts' costume for the occasion was an attractive and distinctively individual one of red satin trimmed with white, a very becoming hat also of red and white, and a saucy parasol which harmonized in every way with the rest of the costume. Miss Roberts' progress along the line of parade was signalized by the unrestrained plaudits of the multitude, and it would not have been possible for any judge to overlook the popular victory which she scored. Little Edith was kept busy for the entire two miles bowing acknowledgements to the admiring throng, as she passed in her own little motor car driven by her mother.
On page 35 will be found a number of L-Ko beauties who participated, posed in the manner of the well-known seals who gave their name to Seal Beach. They are Gladys Varden, who won third prize, June Rush, Caroline Wright, Eva Novak, winner of a second prize, Nell Christy and Babe Henderson. In the strip across the top of these two pages are two