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CHAPTER V
FINAL PREPARATIONS
The day of the Pageant is fast approaching. The tro-
phies have been ordered, sufficient for all the baby con-
testants to receive one each, (with a few extra as stand-by
to take care of last minute arrivals), and enough trophies
and winner's sashes for the First Place, Second Place and
Third Place contestants in each of the other divisions.
You can obtain the sashes, 'ribbons', complete with
inscriptions Miss Teenage Mytown, Queen of Thistown 1995,
or whatever your pageant categories and divisions happen to
be named, from the people who supply your trophies.
By this time you should have in your possession the
sponsor donated prizes. Airline tickets, a color televi-
sion, dinner for six in the town's finest restaurant or
whatever sponsor prizes you have been able to obtain.
Sometimes it is sufficient to have these prizes in the form
of a certificate in an envelope. An announcement by the
Master of Ceremonies when the prizes are awarded, stating
what the envelope contains, is sufficient as far as the
audience is concerned.
If the prizes you are awarding are highly visible, it
may be your decision to have them close to the stage and on
display throughout the Pageant.
All that remains now is for you to have a last minute
meeting with your staff to be sure that everyone knows what
they will be expected to do.
While I am on the subject of staff, I should mention
the subject of payment. This is an arrangement you will
have to arrive at on a person to person basis. Some help-
ers say they are sufficiently rewarded to be a part of a
Beauty Pageant, but your helpers will be working very hard,
especially the Stage manager, the Dresser and the Emcee.
Under the heading of Staff, I have lumped everyone
connected with the Pageant except yourself, the Judges and
the Emcee. They include the following.
* The Dresser:
This should be a responsible person in charge of the
dressing room. She will keep an eye on the progress of the
Pageant and ensure that each batch of contestants in each
division is ready to go on stage when called. She should
have a list of the contestants, a copy of the one given to
the Emcee, showing the names and order in which the contest-
ants will be called.
Sometimes, and it will depend on your community, it may
be policy to have two dressers. The quiet duty of one of
them will be to keep a watchful eye on the personal belong-
ings of contestants. A pilfered purse can ruin the day for
a contestant and cause you unneeded problems.
* The Stage Manager
Here you need a calm, clear-headed individual. This
person will maintain a close liaison with the dresser and
have ready to hand, another copy of the contestants' order
of appearance. The Stage Manager will also be responsible
for having the correct trophy, awards and ribbons ready for
presentation to the correct person at the appropriate time.
The stage manager could be made responsible for the
collection of Judging Sheets from the Judges. Either you
or the Stage Manager or another person appointed specifi-
cally for the task, will collect the Judging Forms, total
the scores and eventually hand them to the Emcee for an-
nouncement.
If you are any kind of a showperson you will delay the
announcement of the Senior Divisions until audience antici-
pation has reached its crest.
The accuracy of this accounting is quite important and
sometimes a disgruntled contestant, or a contestant's par-
ent, will request a look at the Judging Sheets. With this
in mind, it is a good idea for the Judges to be given some
other identification other than their name, to be typed at
the top of individual Judging Sheets, an identification
which you and the Stage Manager will recognize should some
clarification ever become necessary.
* The Registrars
Here you need a person sitting at a table at the en-
trance to the Pageant. It will be her sole duty to check in
the contestants against a list as they arrive and to col-
lect Entry Fees from last minute entries. It is sometimes
possible for her to share this table with another of your
staff who will be selling admission tickets to the audience.
If you intend to sell your programs, you will also need
a person inside the door of the auditorium armed with an
armful of programs and a pocketful of change.
* Judging The Pageant
It is usually not very difficult to find people pre-
pared to judge a beauty Pageant. Some will prefer to judge
the baby divisions, others with declare a preference for
judging the older contestants.
Try to obtain people with some stature in the communi-
ty. I have made previous reference to Mall Management
people and business leaders, and you will usually find
that people involved with sports are willing judges.
The Judges should be provided with a table, water
carafes and glasses, pencils and Judging Forms.
It seems to be an appropriate place for me to suggest
methods of judging. It will depend on the ages of the
contestants, but usually with the older contestants, the
judges are requested to form an opinion on grace, beauty,
dress, figure and personality. If you are including
talent, that too should be included on the judging sheet.
The judges will score points from 1 to 10 and then
add up the total score for each contestant. The total
scores for each contestant, as awarded by each judge, will
then be added together by your Stage Manager or the person
delegated this task.
If you undertake this task yourself, it's a good safe-
guard to recheck the scores as entered and totaled by each
judge. It takes a little longer before you can announce
the winners, but the time is usually well spent. The mathe-
matic skills of some of our leaders of industry are not
always as great as they might wish. The use of an adding
machine is strongly recommended.
Nothing is left now but the Pageant itself. All the
advertising and the contestant filing is behind you. The
booking for the hall where event will take place has been
confirmed, the final layout for the program is with your
printer and the sponsor prizes, or at least letters of
confirmation are in your possession.
A word of caution Don't rely on promises of donated
prizes. If you advertise that you will be awarding a cer-
tain prize, be sure you are in a position to supply that
prize.
Now ..... Let's go for it.
*** THINK *** Money doesn't buy happiness.
But it sure makes being miserable a lot easier.