FOLK SONG ESSAY CONTEST

Contest [Here's what the text says:]

WARNER BROS. PICTURES AND GOYA GUITARS, INC. ANNOUNCE SPLENDOR IN THE GRASS FOLK SONG ESSAY CONTEST
Win a free visit to the entertainment capital of the world & a Goya guitar.

1st Prize: An all-expense paid one week visit to Hollywood. Stay at the luxurious Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel. visit the Warner Bros. Studios, the world's largest, and see motion pictures and your favorite TV shows actually being filmed and visit with the stars. Win this thrill of a lifetime, and this guitar of a lifetime: a valuable Goya.
2nd Prizes: To the 48 runners-up: Goya folk guitars, "World's Finest." Used by Theodore Bikel, Oscar Brand, The Limeliters, Cynthia Gooding, The Ivy League Trio, Casey Anderson, Guy Mitchell...
3rd Prizes: To the next 250 runners-up: Warner Bros. Records Stereophonic album, "I Love A Guitar."

SEE THE PROVOCATIVE MOTION PICTURE
Then in 150 words or less tell why the powerful passions, poignant pathos of Elia Kazan's controversial technicolor presentation of Splendor In The Grass -- William Inge's taut screenplay of groping love, shattered youth and surging emotion -- might particularly lend itself to authentic folk song treatment in the classic tradition of "Greensleeves," "Black is the Color of my True Love's Hair," "Shenandoah," ...

CONTEST RULES:
1. The Warner Bros. - Goya Guitar Splendor in the Grass folk song essay contest is open to everyone in the US and Canada except employees (and their immediate families) of Warner Bros. and Goya Guitar Inc. and their subsidiaries.
2. There are no entry fees and contestants are not required to have seen the film, but judging will be on the basis of the composition's appropriateness to the mood, story and/or characters of the film.
3. Contest entries will be judged by a panel headed by world-famed folk authority Oscar Brand, whose decision will be final.
4. Entries must be postmarked before midnight December 31, 1961, and should be addressed to:
Splendor in the Grass Essay Contest
Goya Guitars, Inc.
53 West 23rd Street
New York 10, New York

[I never found out who won, or what happened to that person later in life.]


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