Miss Europe 1930

Aliki Diplarakou, Miss Greece and Miss Europe 1930.

The competition for Miss Europe 1930 was the second held by the Comité pour l'election de Miss Europe . This was launched in 1928 by the French journalist Maurice de Waleffe (1874-1946) and organized the competition continuously until 1938. Waleffe had previously founded the competition for Miss France .

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

Belgium: La Meuse , Bulgaria: Kunstrevue Kragosvet ( Кръгосвет ), Denmark: Berlingske Tidende , Germany: Das Magazin , England and Ireland: Daily Mirror , France: Le Journal (published by Waleffe), Greece: Syndicate of the Greek Press, Holland: Het Leven , Italy: Art Revue Vita Femminile , Yugoslavia: Vreme ( Време ), Austria: Neues Wiener Tagblatt , Poland: Kurier Czerwony , Romania: Universul , (exile) Russia: La Russie illustrée ( Иллюстрированная Россия ), Spain: Art Magazine Atlantico , Czechoslovakia : Nova Praha , Turkey: Cumhuriyet , Hungary: Színházi élet .

The event took place on February 5, 1930 at the Palais d'Orsay in Paris . There were 19 applicants.

The participants

country	Spelling at Pageantopolis	More contemporary spellings	Spelling in the native language
Placements
1. Greece	Alice Diplarakou	Aliki Diplarakou	Αλίκη Διπλαράκου
2. France	Yvette Labrousse		Yvette Labrousse
3. Belgium	Jenny Vanparays	Jenny van Parys, Jenny van Parys	Jenny Vanparays
Other participants
Bulgaria	Connka Tchobanova	Counka Tchobanova, Counka Tchoubanova	Кунка Христова Чобанова-Недева
Denmark	Esther Petersen	Esther Pédersen
German Empire	Dorit Nitykowski	Dorit Nity-Kowski	Dorit Nitykowski
England	Marjorie Ross		Marjorie Ross
Irish Free State	Vera Curran
Italy	Mafalda Morittino	Mafalda Mariottino
Yugoslavia	Stephanie "Caca" Drobniak	Stéphanie Drobnyak	Štefanija Drobnjak, Стефанија Дробњак
Netherlands	Rie Van the rest		Rie van der rest
Austria	Ingeborg von Grienberger		Ingeborg von Grienberger
Poland	Zofia Batycka	Sophie Batycka	Zofia Batycka
Romania	Zoica Dona		Zoica Dona
Russia A	Irene Wentzel	Irène Wentzell	Ирина Венцель
Spain	Elena Plá Mompó	Elena Plá	Elena Pla Toda
Czechoslovakia	Milada Dostalova		Milada Dostálová
Turkey	Mubedjel Namik	Mubedjel Namick	Fatma Mübeccel Namık Behnesavi
Hungary	Maria Pope	Maria Pappsz	Pabsz Mária "Bébi"

^A.Irene Wentzel was a Russian exile in Paris; there were no general elections in the USSR .

The 1930 competition program

After the actual Miss Europe election, using the example of Miss Austria:

• Ingeborg Grienberger first travels from Knittelfeld to Vienna, where negotiations are underway with a film company.
• From there she will go to Paris on July 23rd, where the meeting point for the Miss Europe participants will be.
• On July 25th, everyone goes to Deauville , where festivities will take place in their honor.
• On July 31, they embarked on a Lloyd Brasileiro steamer .
• Applicants will arrive in Rio de Janeiro on August 23 .
• The Miss Universe election will take place in Rio on October 7th.

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 vintag.es (English)
• Photos of the participants on flickr.com/photos/truusbobjantoo (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Le Journal of February 4, 1930, p. 5, retrieved from Gallica on May 6, 2017
2. ↑ misshollandnow.com
3. ↑ Miss Austria. In:  Salzburger Volksblatt , July 5, 1930, p. 8 (online at ANNO ).