Although the number of contestants and the pageant's popularity increased throughout the decade, the event was closed down in 1927 due to growing criticism and charges of immorality, as well as a ...

Auditions for the pageant took place last month in Laguna Beach. The show uses two casts of 150 people who rotate each week.

On Thursday night, contestants from women’s dorms at Notre Dame took to the stage in Washington Hall at O’Neill’s signature ...