EXPLOITING BEAUTY
“Pagan” Contests Deplored FATE OF GIRL WINNERS Rome, March 11. A sequel to an advertisement in a local paper for girls to participate in a Beauty, Queen competition on the Riviera is seen in an article in the Vatican organ, the “Osservatore Romano.” Continuing its campaign against immorality, this journal vigorously denounces such “pagan contests, in which young girls exchange their purity and chastity for the evanescent, ridiculous sovereignty of a single day. “Murder, suicide, hunger, and death have been the fate of girls successful in such contests in various parts of the wor,ld, but the world has gone mad to such an extent that not even their terrible end has influenced the emulators or advertisers of contests. “Even sacrilege is perpetrated in the fanatical description of these events, for the newspapers sometimes compare the participants to Fourteenth Century Madonnas.”
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Dominion, Volume 24, Issue 143, 13 March 1931, Page 9
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