Miss Universe 1935

The competition for the Miss Universe 1935 was the third and last to be held worldwide, 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 competition for Miss Europe continuously until 1938. Waleffe had previously founded the competition for Miss France . He and his committee had agreed with the hosts that the Miss Europe candidates were all qualified for the Miss Universe. (Occasionally, however, other participants from the respective country competed).

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

Louise Lyman from the USA was not elected there. She had participated in Miss Europe 1934 as Miss Atlantique . Her title was first awarded in 1929 among the female passengers of Compagnie Transatlantique's passenger ships . Leading and eponymous was their on-board newspaper L'Atlantique .

The competition

The Grand Palais of the World's Fair, site of the beauty competition.

The event took place on September 29, 1935 as part of the World Exhibition in Brussels . There were 28 candidates. (30 were announced on an advertising poster). The placements of the participants are not known apart from the winner.

The participants

country	Spelling in L'Illustration	More contemporary spellings	Spelling in the native language
Placements
1. Egypt	Charlotte Wassef		شارلوت واصف
Top 5
Spain	Antonia Arquez
Syria	Samia Baroody
Czechoslovakia	Trude Boehm	Trude Bohm	Trude Boehm
United States	Louise Lyman		Louise Lyman
Other participants
Algeria	Adrienne Desbons
Argentina	Anita de Zavalía
China	Ming Chu
Denmark	Ellen Oerregaard		Ellen Ørregaard
"Danube" ("Danube")	Maria Nagy		Nagy Mária
England	Muriel Oxford		Muriel Oxford
Finland	Tertu Lytikainen		Terttu Lyytikäinen
France	Gisèle Préville		Gisèle Préville
Guiana	Sonia Léveillé
Haiti	Yolande Théard
Italy	Tosca Giusti
Yugoslavia	Nina Ninkovitch		Nina Ninković, Нина Нинковић
Laos	Kham Luong
Mexico	Eva Cardena
Netherlands	Leonora de Bruyn
Norway	Gerd Löwlie	Gerd Lovlien, Gerd Lowlie
Austria	Luisa Stangl
Romania	Sophie Boteni
Russia A.	Marianne Gorbatovsky		Марианна Горбатовская
Switzerland	Nelly Ulrich
Siberia B.	Nadine Fomenko	Nadezhda Fomenko	Надежда Фоменко
Tunis (Tunisia)	Aimée Neviani
Hungary	Renée Gosztony

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

^B. "Miss Siberia" Nadezhda Fomenko was runner-up in the Miss Russia election in Paris, also an exiled Russian.

Web links

• Film from the competition on YouTube (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Le Petit journal of July 7, 1929, p. 2, accessed from Gallica on June 7, 2017.
2. ↑ L'Illustration No. 4830 of September 28, 1935, p. 116. (Log in at http://revue.lillustration.com for a fee).
3. ↑ Le Petit Parisien, October 1, 1932, p. 5, accessed from Gallica on July 5, 2017