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Audience for a Beauty Pageant
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Formally dressed audience members are watching a beauty pageant in a smoky beer hall. The men are wearing suits with ties; the women are wearing dresses and heels, with the occasional fur stole. The audience is sitting together around long tables, and in a balcony (to the back), facing female contestants (out of frame), who are wearing sashes that represent Wisconsin-wide media outlets and community organizations. The audience is drinking pints of Pabst beer, and some men are smoking cigarettes and cigars. Packets of cigarettes are on several tables. A press photographer in the background has a Graflex camera and attached flashbulb. The beer hall, known as the Sternewirt taproom in the Pabst Brewing Company, has characteristic German-style thick wooden architectural elements seen in the columns, wall trim, and paneling. There is also a wall niche displaying beer steins arranged around a decorative plate. Brightly colored frescoes painted by the artist, Edgar Miller, in 1943 chronicle brewing history in panels just below the ceiling, and other figural designs decorate the side walls.
Boyum, Sid, 1914-1991
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