Emilie Longacre
Show Business
Herbert C. Walker of the State Dept. of Commerce presents a letter to Miss Pennsylvania Emilie Ann Longacre inviting her to be official hostess at the Miss America Pageant, Atlantic City, September 1950 — AP Wirephoto
Emilie Longacre is best remembered as the 1950 Miss Pennsylvania entry in the Miss America pageant. After being named Miss Chester County, she sang You’re My Everything to win the state title. A talented vocalist, Emilie Longacre was already working professionally when she won the title, as evidenced by her being booked at Chubby’s Café, just outside of Camden, New Jersey in February of 1950. Columnist Hedda Hopper reported in August of that year that Miss Longacre was to appear in the television show “Lights Out” as a nurse; this however either did not take place or her role was not credited.
Emilie Longacre was born around 1932 in Pennsylvania. She appears in the 1940 Census as Emily Longacre, the daughter of Walter and Anna Longacre of Phoenixville, Pennsylvania. She had an older brother, Howard, who was 12 at the time of the Census. Her father was working as a Phoenixville policeman at the time of the census.
Emilie Longacre apparently did not have a long career in show business. She married in the mid-1950s and as of December 2013 lives with her husband in New York.
Chubby’s Café, Camden
Bob Eberly appeared at Chubby’s Café on Mt. Ephraim Avenue and Collings Road on the first two weekends in January of 1950. Also on the bill at Chubby’s on those dates were The Four Blues with Arthur Davey and the house orchestra, and the Frank Virtuoso Band, perhaps better known somewhat later as Frank Virtue and the Virtues.
Over the next six weeks the Frank Virtuoso Band shared the stage with Savannah Churchill, June Christy, Art Lund, Bill Darnel, Dick Todd, Billy Hays, Eve Young, Artie Russell’s New Yorkers, and the Doles Dickens Quintet.
Real Rivalry Opens Tonight For Beauties
Trenton Evening Times —
ATLANTIC CITY — AP — The Miss America contest begins in earnest tonight, with the first of three preliminary competitions.
The 54 beauties, who represent 46 States, four cities, Canada, Alaska, Puerto Rico and the Hawaiian Islands, will spend three evenings demonstrating what they can do with bathing suits, evening gowns, and brains.
On the basis of points earned for beauty, poise, personality, and talent, 15 finalists will be chosen to compete for the crown now held by Jacque Mercer of Arizona. With the crown goes a $5,000 scholarship, a new automobile and several movie, stage and radio contract offers.
The girls this year are beautiful enough to cause a traffic jam. An applauding and whistling crowd of 150,000 turned out to see them ride in a two-hour Boardwalk parade yesterday, and the city had a heavy traffic snarl afterward.
Most of the girls rode in decorated rolling chairs, but the Misses Alaska, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Puerto Rico rode on floats provided by their sponsors. June Stephens of Ship Bottom, N.J., rode on a huge, golden sea shell, while Emilie Longacre of Phoenixville, Pa., wore riding habit and sat sidesaddle on a paper horse.
Hula Technique
Seattle Daily Times —
Miss America contestants at Atlantic City, September 1950 — Seattle Daily Times, September 7, 1950