Miss Universe 1930 (Rio de Janeiro)

Yolanda Pereira, Miss Brazil and Miss Universe 1930.

The competition for Miss Universe 1930 was the first worldwide that was carried out with the participation of the Comité pour l'election de Miss Europe . The Comité was founded in 1928 by the French journalist Maurice de Waleffe (1874-1946) and organized the Miss Europe election annually from 1929 to 1938. Waleffe had previously founded the competition for Miss France . He and his committee had agreed with the hosts that all Miss Europe candidates were also qualified for the Miss Universe. (Occasionally, however, other participants from the respective country competed). In addition, his committee organized the joint travel of the European participants from Paris to the venue.

The non-European candidates were selected in their countries of origin according to different criteria.

The competition

The Copacabana Palace hotel where the election took place.

The event took place on September 7, 1930 in Rio de Janeiro , in the pergola by the swimming pool of the Copacabana Palace Hotel . The 26 candidates were accommodated in the Hotel Glória . The competition was then mostly as Concours international de beauté or International Beauty Pageant referred.

The participants

country	Spelling in L'Illustration	Further, contemporary, spelling	Spelling in the native language
Placements
1. Brazil	Yolanda Pereira	Yolanda Pereira	Yolanda Pereira
2. Greece	Alice Diplarakou	Aliki Diplarakou	Αλίκη Διπλαράκου
2. Portugal	Fernanda Gonçalves	Fernanda Gonçalves
3. United States	Beatrice Lee	Beatrice Lee
Other participants
Antilles	Yvonne Pampellone	Yvonne Pampelone
Argentina	Cecilia Basavilbaso	-
Belgium	Lily Lenders	-
Bulgaria	Connka Tchobanova	Counka Tchoutanova	Кунка Христова Чобанова-Недева
Chile	Aida Lopez Buendia	-
German Empire	Dorrit Nitykowski	Dorit Nitykowski	Dorit Nitykowski
England	Benie Dicks	Benie Dicks	Bennie Dicks
France	Yvette Labrousse	Yvette Labrousse	Yvette Labrousse
Italy	Mafalda Mariottino	Mafalda Mariottino
Yugoslavia	Stephanie Drobnyak	Stephanie Drolmsky	Štefanija Drobnjak, Стефанија Дробњак
Cuba	Mercedes Lagnaz Perdomo	Mercedes Loynaz Perdomo
Lebanon	Laïla Zoghbi	Laïla Zoghbi
Netherlands	-	Rie Van the rest	Rie van der rest
Austria	Ingeborg von Grienberger	-	Ingeborg von Grienberger
Peru	Enriqueta Burgos Avila Limena	-
Romania	Zoica Dona	Zoica Dona	Zoica Dona
Russia A.	Irène Wentzell	Irene Wentzell	Ирина Венцель
Spain	Elena Plá	Elena Plá	Elena Pla Toda
Czechoslovakia	Milada Dostalova	-	Milada Dostálová
Turkey	Mubedjel Namik	Mubedgel Namik	Fatma Mübeccel Namık Behnesavi
Hungary	Eve de Szaplonczay	Eve Slaplaczai	Szaplonczay Éva
Uruguay	-	Alicia Gomez

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

Follow-up competition

With the result of the election, Santiago de Chile was named as the next host city , but from spring 1931 Buenos Aires . In fact, the event was canceled in 1931.

Web links

• Beauty Contest Photo Album, sponsored and published by SA Irmãos Lever (currently Unilever), São Paulo, 1930 at brazilpostcard.com ( Memento from October 14, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
• Film collage Concurso de Beleza Rio de Janeiro 1930 on YouTube (Portuguese)
• Film collage Yolanda Pereira - 2ª Miss Universo 1930 (vitória brasileira) YouTube (without comment)
• Film collage Yolanda Pereira - primeira Miss Universo YouTube (Portuguese)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Yolanda Pereira: Miss Universo de 1930
2. ↑ L'Illustration No. 4571 of October 11, 1930, p. 208. (Log in at http://revue.lillustration.com for a fee). Miss Holland and Uruguay are mentioned (as missing) in the caption.
3. ↑ Beauty Contest Photo Album, sponsored and published by SA Irmãos Lever (currently Unilever), São Paulo, 1930 at brazilpostcard.com ( Memento from October 14, 2007 in the Internet Archive ). Here 20 participants were shown and named. Placements are not mentioned except for the winner.
4. ↑ misshollandnow.com