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Miss Europe 1931
Miss Europe 1931 is the fourth annual Miss Europe live in Paris and the third under French journalist Maurice de Waleffe. 16 European girls in Europe compete the third annual pageant. Miss France won Miss Europe 1931 named Jeanne Juilla. Results Placements Delegates * - Herta (Hertha) von Haetjens * - Anita Netta Duchateau * - Inga Arvad * - Betty Grace Mason * - Lilli Silberg * - Jeanne Juilla * - Ingrid Ruth Richard * - Chryssoula Rodis * - Mary Lelyveld * - Maria Tasnady-Fekete * - Claudia Nocetti * - Tanti Vuroseanu * (In exile) - Marina Shalyapina * - Ermelina Carreño Rodríguez * - Naschide Saffet Hanim * - Katica Urbanović National pageant notes Debuts/Returns *Estonia participated for the 1st time as its own country. Lilli Silberg was 1st Runner-Up. Estonia was represented as the Baltic States in 1927 Events January * January 1 – The British Broadcasting ''Company'' becomes the British Broadcasting ''Corporation'', when its Royal Charter o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jeanne Juilla
Jeanne Marie Justine Juilla (21 August 1910 – 4 September 1996) was a French model and actress, who became the seventh Miss France and the first Frenchwoman to earn the Miss Europe title. Life Juilla was born on 21 August 1910 in Villeneuve-sur-Lot, France to Louis Jean Juilla and Marie Zoé Lautard, who was a seamstress. Her widowed mother raised Juilla alone. In May 1930, she was elected as Miss Gascony, the title that qualified her for the selection of Miss France 1931. She won Miss France 1931 title, making herself the seventh to do so. The beauty contest was organized by the Parisian Committee created by a Belgian born French journalist, Maurice de Waleffe in 1920, and was juried from among 150 candidates gathered in the village hall of the ''Le Journal'' in Paris. On 5 February 1931, at the age of 20, Jeanne Juilla became the first Frenchwomen to be elected as Miss Europe. The contest was held in the same Persian premises as for the contest of Miss France 1931. Juill ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Miss Europe 1932
Miss Europe 1932 is the fifth annual Miss Europe contest and the fourth under French journalist Maurice de Waleffe. With only 15 Europe Europe is a large peninsula conventionally considered a continent in its own right because of its great physical size and the weight of its history and traditions. Europe is also considered a Continent#Subcontinents, subcontinent of Eurasia ...an girls competing in this pageant, Miss Denmark, Aase Clausen won Miss Europe 1932. Results Placements Delegates * - Isabel Franck * - Suzanne Dandin * - Gwen Stallard * - Aase Clausen * - Émilienne “Lyne” Caisson de Souza * - Ruth Behnen * - Ica Lampel * - Rosetta Montali * Paris' South American Colony - Ludmilla Riberio (of ) * - Zofia Dobrowolska * - Lilian Delescu * (In exile) - Nina Pohl * - Teresita Daniel * - Keriman Halis Hanem * - Olga Djouritch National pageant notes Debuts *Argentina, and Paris' South American Colony went for the first time ever. Withdrawals *Austria, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Miss Europe 1927
Miss Europe 1927, was the first ever edition Miss Europe pageant and the only edition under Fanamet, the European distributor of Paramount. It was first held at Sofiensaal in Vienna, Austria on February 5, 1927. After the original panel of 12 judges couldn't decide the winner, a "runoff" was held on March 15, 1927 in Berlin, Germany. The winner was chosen by Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau who then starred in a movie directed by him. Štefica Vidačić of Yugoslavia emerged victorious, and was crowned Miss Europe 1927 and the first ever Miss Europe.Numerous Croatian websites celebrated the 90th anniversary of "their" first Miss Europe on March 15, 2017, for exampZagrepčanka u Berlinu proglašena miss Europe – 1927 accessed on 11 June 2017. The sentence ''Zagrepčanka Štefica Vidačić postala je Miss Europe na natjecanju koje je održano u Berlinu 15. ožujka 1927. godine.'' means: "The Zagreb woman Štefica Vidačić was Miss Europe in the competition that took place on March 15, 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Baltic States
The Baltic states, et, Balti riigid or the Baltic countries is a geopolitical term, which currently is used to group three countries: Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania. All three countries are members of NATO, the European Union, the Eurozone, and the OECD. The three sovereign states on the eastern coast of the Baltic Sea are sometimes referred to as the "Baltic nations", less often and in historical circumstances also as the "Baltic republics", the "Baltic lands", or simply the Baltics. All three Baltic countries are classified as high-income economies by the World Bank and maintain a very high Human Development Index. The three governments engage in intergovernmental and parliamentary cooperation. There is also frequent cooperation in foreign and security policy, defence, energy, and transportation. The term "Baltic states" ("countries", "nations", or similar) cannot be used unambiguously in the context of cultural areas, national identity, or language. While the majority ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maria Von Tasnady
Maria von Tasnady (16 November 1911 – 16 March 2001) was a Hungarian singer, stage and film actress. She was born as Mária Tasnádi Fekete and used a variety of other professional names including Maria De Tasnady during her career. von Tasnady was born to ethnically Hungarian parents in Transylvania when it was still part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Following its transfer to Romania after the First World War, she emigrated to Hungary. She was the Hungarian entrant at the 1931 Miss Europe contest, losing out to the French winner. Moving to Weimar Germany, she made her film debut in 1932. von Tasnady appeared in twenty five films during her career. As well as Germany, she also worked in her native Hungary and Italy where she appeared in the patriotic war film ''Bengasi'' in 1942.Gundle p.216 Following the Second World War, she was employed by Radio Free Europe. She was married to the film producer Bruno Duday. Selected filmography * ''When Love Sets the Fashion'' (1932 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Inga Arvad
Inga Marie Arvad Petersen (6 October 1913 – 12 December 1973) was a Danish-American journalist who was a guest of Adolf Hitler at the 1936 Summer Olympics and also had a romantic relationship with John F. Kennedy in 1941 and 1942. The juxtaposition of these facts led to suspicions during World War II that she was a Nazi spy. Secret U.S. investigations uncovered no such evidence, and her past did not harm her professional life or social standing in the United States. She was a motion picture writer for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in 1945 and a Hollywood gossip columnist, and from the late 1940s until her death, she was the wife of wealthy cowboy actor and military officer Tim McCoy. Career Arvad was the 1931 beauty queen selected by the Danish newspaper ''Berlingske Tidende''. Arvad attended the Columbia School of Journalism in New York and then moved to Washington D.C., where she worked as a columnist at the Washington Times-Herald. She met John F. Kennedy in Washington through his ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Europe
Europe is a large peninsula conventionally considered a continent in its own right because of its great physical size and the weight of its history and traditions. Europe is also considered a Continent#Subcontinents, subcontinent of Eurasia and it is located entirely in the Northern Hemisphere and mostly in the Eastern Hemisphere. Comprising the westernmost peninsulas of Eurasia, it shares the continental landmass of Afro-Eurasia with both Africa and Asia. It is bordered by the Arctic Ocean to the north, the Atlantic Ocean to the west, the Mediterranean Sea to the south and Asia to the east. Europe is commonly considered to be Boundaries between the continents of Earth#Asia and Europe, separated from Asia by the drainage divide, watershed of the Ural Mountains, the Ural (river), Ural River, the Caspian Sea, the Greater Caucasus, the Black Sea and the waterways of the Turkish Straits. "Europe" (pp. 68–69); "Asia" (pp. 90–91): "A commonly accepted division between Asia and E ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Miss Europe
Miss Europe is a beauty pageant for European women from all over Europe. It was established in February 1927 by Fanamet, the European distributor of Paramount, as a one-off event where the winner was to star in a film directed by Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau. After the initial twelve-person jury couldn't decide between 10 contestants, a runoff election was held where Murnau chose the winner. Murnau ended up choosing Štefica Vidačić of Yugoslavia as the winner and the first ever Miss Europe. Miss Europe was later re-established in December 1928 by French journalist Maurice de Waleffe (1874–1946), who also created, in 1920, what by 1927 had become the Miss France pageant. Miss Europe, under de Waleffe, was first held at the Paris Opera with participants from 18 countries. The first contest under de Waleffe did not occur until February 1929. The contest was interrupted by the onset of World War II but was later re-established, after de Waleffe died, by Roger Zeiler and Claude B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Miss Europe 1930
Miss Europe 1930 was the third annual Miss Europe Miss Europe is a beauty pageant for European women from all over Europe. It was established in February 1927 by Fanamet, the European distributor of Paramount, as a one-off event where the winner was to star in a film directed by Friedrich W ... competition and second under French journalist Maurice de Waleffe. Miss Greece won and 19 girls from Europe competed in the pageant. Belgium participated for the first time and one candidacy, that of Switzerland, was withdrawn. Czechoslovakia and Turkey returned to the pageant, they haven't competed since 1927. Results Placements Delegates * - Ingeborg von Grinberger * - Jenny Vanparays * - Konika Tchobanova * - Milada Dostálová * - Esther Petersen * - Marjorie Ross * - Yvette Blanche Labrousse * - Dorit Nitykowski * - Aliki Diplarakou * - Rie Van der Rest * - Maria Papst * - Vera Curran * - Mafalda Morittino * - Zofia Batycka * - Zoica Dona * (In exile) - Irene Wentzel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paris
Paris () is the capital and most populous city of France, with an estimated population of 2,165,423 residents in 2019 in an area of more than 105 km² (41 sq mi), making it the 30th most densely populated city in the world in 2020. Since the 17th century, Paris has been one of the world's major centres of finance, diplomacy, commerce, fashion, gastronomy, and science. For its leading role in the arts and sciences, as well as its very early system of street lighting, in the 19th century it became known as "the City of Light". Like London, prior to the Second World War, it was also sometimes called the capital of the world. The City of Paris is the centre of the Île-de-France region, or Paris Region, with an estimated population of 12,262,544 in 2019, or about 19% of the population of France, making the region France's primate city. The Paris Region had a GDP of €739 billion ($743 billion) in 2019, which is the highest in Europe. According to the Economist Intelli ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Poland
Poland, officially the Republic of Poland, is a country in Central Europe. It is divided into 16 administrative provinces called voivodeships, covering an area of . Poland has a population of over 38 million and is the fifth-most populous member state of the European Union. Warsaw is the nation's capital and largest metropolis. Other major cities include Kraków, Wrocław, Łódź, Poznań, Gdańsk, and Szczecin. Poland has a temperate transitional climate and its territory traverses the Central European Plain, extending from Baltic Sea in the north to Sudeten and Carpathian Mountains in the south. The longest Polish river is the Vistula, and Poland's highest point is Mount Rysy, situated in the Tatra mountain range of the Carpathians. The country is bordered by Lithuania and Russia to the northeast, Belarus and Ukraine to the east, Slovakia and the Czech Republic to the south, and Germany to the west. It also shares maritime boundaries with Denmark and Sweden. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ireland
Ireland ( ; ga, Éire ; Ulster Scots dialect, Ulster-Scots: ) is an island in the Atlantic Ocean, North Atlantic Ocean, in Northwestern Europe, north-western Europe. It is separated from Great Britain to its east by the North Channel (Great Britain and Ireland), North Channel, the Irish Sea, and St George's Channel. Ireland is the List of islands of the British Isles, second-largest island of the British Isles, the List of European islands by area, third-largest in Europe, and the List of islands by area, twentieth-largest on Earth. Geopolitically, Ireland is divided between the Republic of Ireland (officially Names of the Irish state, named Ireland), which covers five-sixths of the island, and Northern Ireland, which is part of the United Kingdom. As of 2022, the Irish population analysis, population of the entire island is just over 7 million, with 5.1 million living in the Republic of Ireland and 1.9 million in Northern Ireland, ranking it the List of European islan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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