Rabbit's Foot Belle

In all its hundred years Hamilton had never such a parade of pulchritude. Everything that brassieres and ballyhoo could do had been done. There were three Miss Montreals (all wearing bathing suits their city would have banned), a Miss Saskatchewan who had come 1,700 miles escorted by a "Mountie" sergeant, a Miss Yellowknife (who got lost for several hours in Toronto) and 54 other candidates for the title of Miss Canada.

As the beauties paraded in Hamilton's baseball stadium, the judges gravely examined the girls' hands, feet, teeth, etc. and weeded them down to four. The less critical bleachers merely kept up a long low whistle. Finally only Miss Marion Saver, 21, a brunette from Newton Brook, Ont. with a rabbit's foot in her hand, was left. She was proclaimed Miss Canada with pert Miss Muriel Hunter of Hamilton close behind her (see cut). Excitedly she tried to explain that she had entered the contest only on the urging of her family. Said she: "If it weren't for my mother, I wouldn't be here tonight."

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