Indianapolis Times, Volume 37, Number 215, Indianapolis, Marion County, 8 January 1926 — Page 12

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UGLIEST WOMAN CONTEST BARES IRONIC TWIST Denmark Concert Singer Sought Unkind Distinction to Achieve Success. Bv Times NveeUil NEW YORK, Jan. B.—Publicity on the recent ugliest woman stunt of the National' Beauty Shop Owners Association has laid bare the ruins of a hopeful Immigrant’s shattered dream for the wdrld to laugh—and cry—about. The beauty hucksters advertised for Gotham’s homeliest woman and broadcast that some of the leading hucksters could revise her facial architecture with a couple ol hours’ treatment —make her a beauty queen. ✓ Numerous homely women crowded into the golden precincts of the Wal-dorf-Astoria Hotel. Among the candidates for the unkind distinction was a Mrs. Alexander, who came from Tottenville, which is at the farther extremity of the far-off Staten Island car line. Girl From Denmark Mrs. Alexander had come all the long way with the clipped advertisement for the homeliest women clutched In a chubby hand. Mrs. Alexander knew she wasn’t the ugliest woman in New York, but she hoped that someone else might think Uot in view of her 306 pounds and the” fact that the neighbors sometimes made remarks about her lack of attraction. The reason for Mrs. Alexander's strange desire was that she wanted to sing, which wasn't so funny am it might have been, even with Mrs. Alexander’s 300 pounds, forty-odd years and three children. When she was 18 or thereabouts, a girl in Denmark, she had given cpncerts and people liked her voice. Then she was married an.d came to America. Soon she became seriously engaged in the business of raising children, but all the time there remained that ambition to sing—especially since her husband failed, for sotne reason or other, to return from the war. Faint Hope Seized And now Mrs. Alexander, in far ®ff Tottenville at the end of the car line, had seized at this faint hope of becoming beautiful, for she felt that given a little charm, she could achieve her success and make her children the children of a celebrity instead of just the kids of poor old Mrs. Alexander of Tottenville. She inserted only the proviso that she must not be required to expose any of her person but her face, for, as she said, she had “always lived a clean life.” The people In charge of the contest listened sympathetically but a little Impatiently to Mrs. Alexander, and, at her plea, took her name and address In case they might later be ahfle to do something. Some woman from the movies had won the contest. And as Mrs. Alexander trudged back through the golden corridors of the Waldorf toward Tottenville, they crumpled the slip of paper with the name and address and threw it away.

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THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

FREUAT, JAN. 8, 1926