Tons going on with the Miss Texas Scholarship Pageant. I can’t decide what to tell you first…

Okay, heads wins. We’ll go with the local angle. The annual pageant, for years and years held in Fort Worth, is packing up its sequins and moving to…Arlington! Isn’t everything? First the Cowboys, and now Miss Texas. Actually Miss Texas will beat Da ‘Boys because the pageant is held in July, way before football season. Look for the new Miss Texas to be crowned at the University of Texas at Arlington’s Texas Hall.

The actual dates are up in the air because–again, this could be exciting–it could be televised this year. So, if it is televised, the finals will be July 3. If it’s not televised, the finals will compete with fireworks on July 4. Pageant people seem to be excited about the switches, and happy to be working with the City of Arlington.

And the other piece of Miss T info is that Rebecca Robinson, the current, four-lingual Miss Texas, will depart for the big Miss America Pageant Thursday. Just to make Bert Parks mad, it will be held again this year in ‘Vegas. Even though she did sing the national anthem at The Cotton Bowl earlier this month, she’s a tap dancer.

TLC is the network carrying the Miss America Pageant. Meanwhile the network’s running a pretty silly show “Countdown to the Crown” on Fridays until the pageant, which is scheduled for Jan. 24. If you watch the show, you can vote for your fave.

Should you want to send Rebecca a note of good luck, Lydia Hall, Miss Texas pageant VP and associate director, says now’s the time. Write to Rebecca Robinson–Miss Texas, c/o Planet Hollywood Resort & Casino, 3667 Las Vegas Blvd. South, Las Vegas, NV 89109.