Beauty Contest

Beauty Contest - 1923

Sweet Seventeen - Miss Sylvia Jones

Miss Sylvia Jones attracts attention at the first glance, by reason of her lovely coloring; and a second glance discovers that she has also almost classic features. Modelled on fine lines, a slim child-woman, she stand “with reluctant feet where the...

09 Sep 2020

Beauty Contest - 1923

Many Ways, But One Result

March 20, 1923 There are one or two facts concerning the Grand Carnival hospital appeal that appear to need stating so that the public, and particularly the contributing public, shall know both why the appeal is being made and why there appears to...

09 Sep 2020

Beauty Contest - 1923

Nita Cooper’s Friends - February 24, 1923

A Flying Start for one Lady in the Contest One fair lady’s friends and admirers are already at work organising her condidature in the Mildura Grand Carnival beauty contest. Miss Nita Cooper has both personal charms and capacity to charm, and her...

09 Sep 2020

Beauty Contest - 1923

The Mildura Hospital’s Very Own – Matron Vera White

Miss White, the efficient and popular matron of Mildura Hospital, would probably disclaim any intention of putting herself into competition with the fresh young rose buds of the Beauty Contest; she appears as the special representative of the...

23 Aug 2020

Beauty Contest - 1923

The Lancashire Lass – Miss Hilda Murray

Miss Hilda Farquhar Murray, in appearance was well as in accent, tells her friends that she comes from across the seas, and her colors – red, white and blue – proclaim it too. Miss Murray is a brunette type, but with deep grey eyes, starry in...

28 Aug 2020

Beauty Contest - 1923

The Ethics of the Beauty Show - February 24, 1923

Some one frowned, actually frowned, over the beauty contest the other day - and he was scarcely one of the “unco guid” either. “It will make the girls conceited” he said, in an accent that held more than a suspicion of Doric. Yet it ought not to...

12 Aug 2020

Beauty Contest - 1923

The Quest of Beauty

March 1, 1923 All in the Good Cause of Sweet Charity The Mildura Grand Carnival committee are leaving nothing to chance in regard to the Beauty Contest, and the prospects of success are much brighter than the original forecast. The campaign is well...

18 Aug 2020

Beauty Contest - 1923

No Hospital Appeal

February 1923 Only a Suggestion That Once Might Succeed. The first visitor to “Sunraysia Daily” office yesterday was a citizen of no great wealth though of high character, who brought his pound, and his wife’s to give to the £16,000 appear, which...

18 Aug 2020

Beauty Contest - 1923

The Ballarat Beauty – Mrs G. Milnes

Mrs G. Milnes (Nellie to her intimates) though nominated in due time came late into the field of beauty contestants; but when she appeared before a Mildura audience, the golden-haired stranger girl with the wonderful eyes and the faultless face...

14 Aug 2020

Beauty Contest - 1923

Red Cliff’s Glowing Girl – Miss Margaret Irwin

Miss Margaret Irwin brings some warm color into the Beauty Contest, for her face is framed in a great mass of rich auburn hair – truly a crown of glory. Miss Irwin is a fine-figured girl, as the photograph suggests, for it illustrates the dignity...

12 Aug 2020

Beauty Contest - 1923

Nita Cooper’s Friend

February 24, 1923 A Flying Start for one Lady in the Contest. One fair lady’s friend and admirers are already at work organising her candidature in the Mildura Grand Carnival beauty contest. Miss Nita Cooper has both personal charms and capacity to...

18 Aug 2020