BEAUTY CONTEST
STRONG CONDEMNATION VOICED. BY VATICAN OFFICAL PAPER. (Press Association. —Copyright.) (Received 11.45 a.m.) Rome, March 11. As a sequel to an advertisement in a local paper for girls to participate in a beauty queen competition in the Riviera, the Vatican organ, “Osservatore Romano,” continuing its campaign against immorality, vigorously denounces such “pagan” contests in which young girls exchange their purity and chastity for an evanescent and ridiculous sovereignty for a single day. The paper stated that murder, suicide, hunger, and death have been the fate of girls successful in such contests in various parts of the world, but the world has gone mad to such an extent that not even their terrible end has influenced the emulators or advertisers of such contests, and even sacrilege has been perpetrated in the fanatical description of these events, for newspapers sometimes compare the participant to fourteenth century Madonnas.
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King Country Chronicle, Volume XXV, Issue 3278, 12 March 1931, Page 5
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147BEAUTY CONTEST King Country Chronicle, Volume XXV, Issue 3278, 12 March 1931, Page 5
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