Show THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE SUNDAY MORNING FEBRUARY 21' 1937 ’ or vv inning kon of jShes Helen KingKnows Them for Supreme Court Competitions in Which 8000000 Compete for $127000000 Booty 4 Roy McCardell First of the “Profession Contest Participants” His Income v Is Estimated at $30000 I V -- : THE SUPREME COURT OF CONTESTS Helen King Who Is the Heroine of sn Extraordinary Success Story She Established a New Profession— Judging Contests 'Right: the Headquarters of Her Judging Organlzationwlth Letters of Some ' ef the 8000000 Regular Contest Participants Flowing Through It By GERALDINE SARTAIN the last six years to have collected In this glorious American epoch of about 8500000 of the “take” At least one of them Roy McCardell "get something for nothing” a new lunacy is afoot There was a time professional writer turned professional contestant was able to throw away his when anyone with a quarter to spare and a yen for easy money could shoot typewriter after a few years in the contest game with 830000 in prize it all at craps back up his hunch on a horse try a whirl at thq numbers money in his billfold He was the first of the professional winners game or bat pin balls all day long An Anderson Ind stenographer (febeside his favorite bar Now it’s the prise contest game that 0 male) is supposed to have bagged has more than 20000000 men and in three years There is a Palo women in this country going gaga in Alto Cal housewife who averages 82000 a year and a Cleveland sales the course of one year About 8000000 of them are "repeatexecutive who reputedly wins a contest every ten days ers" They have gone completely prize contest mad Some of them' enter as Ths 8000000 pore over newspapers and magazines and listen to ths radio many as 40 a year whether the contest offers a wafer tray a trip to the with a note pad in hand they clip Hebrides or a 81000 bill A free autocoupons and collect labels and wrapmobile is about the most frequent bait pers as the sponsors direct Most imwith radios a good runner-u- p portant of all they keep right on shootSpot cash of course is the most frantically ing their answers from Kankakee and Iron City and Secaucus and their sosought prize and about 812000000 is lutions fill whole mail trains handed out this way every year The hopeful 8000000 have their own Eventually most of them flood into the office of Helen King prize jargon their own contest books Manhattan mbs whose own penchant and magazines clubs and insignia of them seem to have for getting something gratis actually Some fifty-od- d led her to the throne of Queen of the mastered all the tricks for they are In the top money most of the time and Contest World have crossed the tape often enough in It all started at 15 In a dither of I rsirtSv-: $25-00- ’ vv Jrom her mother order a graphology pamphlet she saw advertised — with 15 free pen in The pen points were all right but it was the pamphlet that tripped the child She made the mistake of reading it Then hurried to the nearest book store and collected every book on analyzing character by handwriting she could find mention of There was a slight matter of money that might have proved embarrassing but not to Miss Helen Wiseacre King She had the bill sent home to papa He roared of course as any father would but his smoothie little daughter diverted his mind by reading his and her mother's character from their handwriting Of course mama and papa thought they had the wonder child of the town (Cranford N J) Anyway her handwriting quest led her to become one of the two partners in the Certified Contest Service the only professional contest outfit in the field Her partner is Jack Todd known as the Contest Ring for 25 years before he thought of opening an agency where contest sponsors can havs their mail checked and judged It was a natural that he should team up with the girl who had judged several mammoth contests advertised over the air Along her trail to the contest points-throw- throne and tiara she became one of the leading graphologists in the country She was handwriting expert to police cases and graphic pathologist for an insane asylum Good training for nutty contests she believes Now King and Tod have SO national sponsors who give them a free hand in conducting contests Helen King is a merry looking girl with Irish blue eyes smooth brown waves and a pair of fetching dimples It takes Gaelic humor she's sure to see her through those periods when overnight she hires a' corps of 60 bustling girls to handle the 5000 plus letters a day that overflow six long tables in her workroom during a national Sergt William O Stilley Hag Won So contest By six operations of stamping sorting checking reading and Many Contests That Ho Was Called the World’s Champion Contest Winner weeding out and the help of machines - and modern gadgets the job is done in what seems a trice to the winners About 65 per cent of the entries are promptly rejected mostly because they show no originality or fail in some regulation such as inclosing wrappers Take a glance at the Contesters" with Miss King They are the consistent winners picked by a contest "trade” magazine every June for the last six years and so Tar there art 41 on the list They come from Manhattan walkups Wyoming cattle ranges and New Orleans docks There’s Miss Hazel Manley girl reporter of Union City Tenn m the top three She nabbed 317 prizes worth 812000 including five automobiles since 1930 In 1924 she won 143 cash and 19 merchandise prizes valued at $432380 Carolyn Converse an Antigo Wis housewife clattered home with 45 prizes worth $7305 in the first five years while James E Power Baltimore sales manager flabbergasted his neighbors by his 76 prizes valued at $4962 during his first two years Miss King takes no busman's holidays Her own habits run to collecting penguins and Donald Ducks She subscribes to dozens of magazines and reads 14 newspapers a day Most of her friends are concert and radio stars Shake Ahaf quicker! Do these two things: ft ?V By PETER WHITNEY One of the west coast’s wealthiest young sportsmen an amateur scientist and actor summoned a master tattoo-1s- t to his luxurious seagoing yacht in such secrecy that the “artist” was almost afraid to leave his waterfront shop But the presentation of a wad of bills persuaded him and on the yacht In an opulently paneled cabin he stenciled a gaudy pattern on the Then with i playboy's patrician skin more money than he had ever made ' from a "job" before he was sent away with strict Instructions to keep It quiet Secrets like that aren’t easily kept 4 This sportsman bathing on the sun- kissed sands of Del Monte necessarily txposed his embroidered epidermis the inquisitive gaze of his fellow and there was talk of another such society rage tattooing as that which caught on In London and New York at the turn of the century when the Duke of Clarence and his brother late King George V returned from a naval cruise to 'the orient proudly disv playing specimens of the best work of astern tattooists on the royal skin Th tattooing profession "carries on” a brisk trade within the hoi polio! and — ths latest wrinkls is engraving social security numbers indelibly on arms and legs But it’s the carriage trade that the tattooists want most of all 4 They remember the halcyon days and fat fees when according to’ report of the spclety women In t :America bore some kind of tattoo shrugged her pretty shoulders and said It was “the latest thing” As for "G W J” being a married man— “why not?” Dorothy Parker favorite poetess of the smartly disillusioned Manhattan night club set used to take pleasure in parading an "unrequited love” for Satirist Robert Benchley One frantia in parading an "unrequited love” for y ' X evening Miss ner’s Bobby Wicks drag Wag- "needle worker" tells a X IMij -- XrXv-- C 7 VvV ryyy r - (- AX- - t Sal Hepaffica does BOTH! -- M — 'This is the time of year" warn physicians 1 Cleanse the intestinal 2 Help Nature combat acidity which frequently accompanies a cold 43 FvA’ nji pvi 6 Mi - x xi ' MRS X- lrrt taking A ' First Sal Hepatica flushes out wastes in the intestinal tract— quickly gently thoroughly 'Second Sal Hepatica brings about a definite reaction to help your syalkaline (anti-acid- ) stem swing hack toward the alkaline reserve so necessary to health and welgerm-resista- ' “ ' lbeing 7i Ask your doctor— see if he doesn’t atress the importance of taking both a laxative and sn - JSo whenever a cold conies your way take two teaspoonfuls of Sal Hepatica in a gltss — v-- J - today SalHepaika anti-aci- ' water In addition get plenty of rest and io bef and call a doctor if yoiir cold " is severe Watch your diet Drink plenty of liqiiidslt pays to fight a cold Get Sal Hepatica uiet-ga the And you can do both things at once by A of -q- recommend two fighting measures to help yoiir system irt its natural defense against a cold: 'i t for instance recently found ' herself up against it when shq lost her hus- band at the age of 20 She had a 3ear-ol- d son to support and having been brought up in leisure by generous parents had never learned to make her own way in tha world So she had her skin covered with religious designs now she is known as the "Living Bible “ and at the age of 22 is the youngest professional "tattooed lady” in the show Dr A Hartmann famous physician of Port Said made another claim foij the needle and ink basing his report on his own experiments and experiences among the Arabs he declared that tattooing can be useful as a cure for a number of aiiments if properly administered' Some chemical conslitu- cut of the inks possibly arsenic apparently combats lumbago neuralgia sciatica and other diseases his report indicates ' - and Vented her choicest' epithets on the artist then went' into se- elusion for six months while she grew bangs that came down to her eyes But love Isn't the only inspiration for tattooing Pretty Mrs Claire Richter world 7? ffi one-inc- — J-- to of a society page notable who appeared at Chatham square and insisted that the poignant sentiment “Lover Come h Back” be tattooed In capitals on her forehead He -- remonstrated rs wealthy and famous SanFranoisco eve-- 7 family appeared Jin a sleeveless of salons the in Newport ning gown end Fifth avenue and her conventional sisters blanched at the sight' of the Initials "A G" and "J G” formed by the intertwined bodies of serpents stenciled upon her shoulders— a piece of suggestive symbolism that could hardly escape even the purest minds Amy's husband’s first Initial wasn't ‘J’’ Amy was something of a social' outcast when she divorced Henry Gil lig and married Jackson Gouraud handsome Englishman And there was the recent case of Josephine Herrick whose mother com- plained in a Chicago police court "when her daughter came home with the initials “G W J” tattooed on her ihoul- “I understood he’s a married der man” said Mrs Herrick "and ths ini- ‘tlals show when she wears an evening gown" When questioned Josephine had studio in New York’s Chatham square just as Charlie began the design she had ordered-picture of Benchley and his name to be tattooed over her heart When Dorothy later on became interested in Alan Campbell Hollywood author whom she later married she finally satsified her craving for commemorat- Ing her feelings on her skin for one evening after a riotous good time in the ”21” club she and Campbell with some other friends returned to Chatham square where she had a star engraved on her arm Campbell and the others went in for pink elephants After Lieutenant Paul FitzSimons United States navy married Elsie French Vanderbilt and put in an appearance at sacrosanct Bailey's Beach at Newport the elegant tattoo designs that covered his arm proved embar-- rassing to him as the “Death to Kings” tattooed on the arm of Jean Berna-dott- e one of Napoleon’s generals after he was elected king of Sweden blue-bloo- three-quarte- friends Parker from Charlie tk i TUN! 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