MISS UNIVERSE 1958
friday, july 25, 1958
Convention Hall, Long Beach Municipal Auditorium, Long Beach, California, U.S.A.
80 contestants (35 international - 45 miss usa)
total international contestants (including miss usa): 36
PRESENTER: BYRON PALMER
entertainment: -
Results
1 COLOMBIA Luz Marina Zuluaga Zuluaga
2 BRAZIL Adalgisa Colombo
3 HAWAII Geri Hoo
4 USA Eurlyne Howell
5 POLAND Alicja Bobrowska
Top 15
CHILE María Raquel Molina Uruttia
DENMARK Evy Norlund
GERMANY Marlies Jung Behrens
GREECE Marily Kallimopoulou
HOLLAND Corine Rottschaefer (winner Europe '57, winner World '59)
ISRAEL Miriam Hadar
JAPAN Tomoko Moritake
PERU Beatriz Boluarte Figueroa
SURINAM Gertrud Gummels
SWEDEN Birgitta Elisabeth Gårdman
Awards
Miss Friendship 1) JAPAN, 2) ECUADOR, 3) ENGLAND, 4) GREECE
Miss Photogenic 1) HOLLAND, 2) (tied) POLAND & FLORIDA (Marcia Valibus)
Most Popular Girl AUSTRALIA
Remainder
ALASKA Eleonor Moses
ARGENTINA Celina Mercedes Ayala
AUSTRALIA Astrid Tanda Lindholm
BELGIUM Liliane Taelemans
BRITISH GUIANA Clyo Fernandez
CANADA Eileen Cindy Conroy
COSTA RICA Eugenia Maria Valverde Guardia *
CUBA Arminia Pérez y González
ECUADOR Alicia Vallejo Eljuri
ENGLAND Dorothy Hazeldine (Europe '58)
FRANCE Monique Boulinguez
GUATEMALA Maya Glinz
ITALY Clara Coppola
KOREA Geum-soon Oh
MEXICO Elvira Leticia Risser Corredor
NORWAY Greta Andersen
PARAGUAY Graciela Scorza Leguizamón
SINGAPORE Marion Willis
URUGUAY Irene Augustyniak
VENEZUELA Ida Margarita Pieri (World '58)
WEST INDIES Angela Tong (of Port-of-Spain, Trinidad)
* Participated, but was not judged (3 months underage).
NO SHOWS:
AUSTRIA Johanna "Hanni" Ehrenstrasser
BOLIVIA Maria Luisa Caso Resse
BURMA Louisa Charmaine Benson
DOMINICAN REPUBLIC Julia Cesarina Acosta Marrón
FINLAND Pirkko Mannola
LUXEMBOURG Lydie Schmitz
MOROCCO Jocelyne Lambin
PANAMA Maria Luisa "Lucita" Burillo
PHILIPPINES Carmen Remedios "Chuchay" Tuazon
TURKEY Sunay Uslu
DEBUTS: Colombia, Poland, Surinam
WITHDRAWALS: Austria, Ceylon, Iceland, Martinique, Morocco, Philippines, Puerto Rico, Turkey
RETURNS: Australia, British Guiana, Chile, Denmark, Holland, Norway, Singapore, West Indies
JUDGES:
1- Vincent Trotta - Dean of America's beauty judges and formerly art director of Paramount Pictures.
2- Alberto Varga, creator of the "Varga Girls".
3- Miyoko Yanagida - Japanese artist and Wife of the president of Japan Airlines.
4- Earl Wilson - Columnist.
5- Ma Ma Loa - Hawaiian woman singer.
6- Roger Zeiler, President of the Miss Europe contest.
7- Jacob G. Gaudaur - Canadian showman.
8- David Karasik - Israeli magazine editor.
9- James H. Noguer - Professor of foreign languages at Long Beach State College.
10- Raul Ferrada - Chilean newspaper editor.