Miss Europe 1929

Erzsébet "Böske" Simon, Miss Hungary and Miss Europe 1929.

1929 L'Illustration

The competition for Miss Europe 1929 was the first to be organized by the Comité pour l'election de Miss Europe . This had been brought into being in 1928 by the French journalist Maurice de Waleffe (1874-1946) and organized the competition continuously until 1938. Waleffe had already founded the competition for Miss France in 1920 .

The candidates for the premiere were selected in their countries of origin with the participation of major newspapers or illustrated magazines:

Bulgaria: Zora ( Зора ), Denmark: BT , Germany: 8 a.m.-Abendblatt , England and Ireland: Daily Mail , France: Le Journal (published by Waleffe), Greece: Eleftheron Vima ( Ελεύθερον Βήμα ), Holland: Het Leven , Italy : Novo Italia , Yugoslavia: Vrémé ( Време ), Austria: Neues Wiener Tagblatt , Poland: Kurier Czerwony , Romania: Universul , (Exile-) Russia: La Russie illustrée ( Иллюстрированная Россия ), Switzerland: Le Genevois. , Spain: ABC , Hungary : Színházi élet .

The event took place on February 7, 1929 at the Paris Opera . There were 18 applicants.

The participants

country	Spelling at Pageantopolis	More contemporary spellings	Spelling in the native language
Placements
1. Hungary	Elzbieta "Böske" Simon	Bözsi Simon, Elisabeth Simon	Simon Erzsébet "Böske"
2. Poland	Vladimir Kostakovna	Vladislava Kostak	Władysława Kostakówna
3. France	Germaine Laborde		Germaine Laborde
Other participants
Bulgaria	Luba Yotzoff	Luba Yotzova	Люба Йоцова
Denmark	Vibeke Mogensen
German Empire	Elisabeth Yvette Rodzyn	Elisabeth Radzyn	Elisabeth Rodzyn
England	Benny Dick	Bennie Dick	Benny Dick
Greece	Aspasie Karatja	Aspasie Karatza	Ασπασία Καρατζά
Irish Free State	Clara Russell-Stritch	Clare Russell-Stritch, Clare Russel Strich
Italy	Derna Giovannini
Yugoslavia	Stanislava Matijevitch		Stana Matejević
Luxembourg	Ketty Hipp
Netherlands	Johanna Koopman		Johanna (Jopie) Koopman
Austria	Lisl Goldworker A	Lise gold worker	Lisl (Liesl-Elisabeth) gold worker
Romania	Mariaora Ganesco		Mariaora Gănesco
Russia B	Irina Levitskaya		Ирина Левицкая
Switzerland	Annie Haussel	Anne Haussel, Annie Haussl
Spain	Pepita Samper		Pepita Samper

^A.Lisl Goldarbeiter won the Miss Universe contest in Galveston, Texas that same year

^B.Irina Levitskaya was a Russian exile in Paris; there were no general elections in the USSR .

Web links

• Competition 1929–1938 at Pageantopolis ( Memento from October 24, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
• Pictures and newspaper clippings at flickr.com/photos/punkmemory (French)
• Pictures and biographies of the participants on monovisions.com (English)
• Photos of the participants on flickr.com/photos/truusbobjantoo (English)
• Színházi élet 8/1929 with over 30 pages special section on the Miss Europe election and Böske Simon, PDF, 333 MB (Hungarian)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ www.abc.es
2. ↑ List in L'Illustration No. 4484 from February 9, 1929, pictured at flickr.com/photos/punkmemory
3. ↑ misshollandnow.com