Miss Europe 1936

Contemporary aerial view of Tunis , city of the event.

The competition for Miss Europe 1936 was the eighth organized 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.

The event took place on October 30, 1936 in Tunis . There were 15 applicants. The placements of the participants are not known apart from the winner.

The participants

country	Spelling at Pageantopolis	More contemporary spellings	Spelling in the native language
1. Spain A	Antonita Arquès	Antonia Arquez
Belgium	Laura Torfs		Laure Torfs
England	Laurence Atkins		Laurence Atkins
France	Lyne Lassalle		Lyne Lassalle
Greece	Nella Sikiari		Νέλα Σικιάρη
Irish Free State	Dany O'Moore
Caucasus region B	Tatiana Ouchakoff		Татьяна Ушакова
Morocco	?	Aimée Gervais
Netherlands	Mia Kramer		Mia Kramer
Norway	Aslaug Simonsen
Russia C	Ariane Gedeonova	Ariane Guédénoff	Ариадна Гедеонова
Sweden	Birgit Engquist
Syria Lebanon	?
Tunis (Tunisia)	Ethel Azzopardi
Hungary	Maria Nagy D	Maria de Nagy	Nagy Mária

^A.Elections for Miss Spain did not take place after 1936. Antonia Arquez had already participated in the Miss Universe in 1935 , so qualified in the previous year, possibly as Vice-Miss.

^B.How Tatiana Ouchakoff qualified is unknown. She was certainly a Russian exile in Paris, allegedly the daughter of a Cossack general.

^C.Ariane Gedeonova was a Russian in exile in Paris; there were no general elections in the USSR .

^D. Maria Nagy had already competed for the “Danube Region” last year.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ No name was given in the contemporary overviews because the candidates from Morocco and Syria-Lebanon had not yet been elected. That is why they do not appear at Pageantopolis either. Aimée Gervais is mentioned in: L'Afrique du Nord illustrée , November 7, 1936, p. 14; retrieved from Gallica
2. ↑ misshollandnow.com

Web links

• Competition 1929–1938 at Pageantopolis ( Memento from October 24, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
• L'Illustration No. 4886 of October 24, 1936, p. 256. (Log in at revue.lillustration.com for a fee).