Saturday, February 7, 2009

60. 1930 MISS LUZON, MISS VISAYAS, MISS MINDANAO


ESTRELLA ALVAREZ, 1930 Miss LUZON

Estrella was a student of Philippine Women’s College and the candidate of the newspaper, Intelligencer. She comes was from Laoag, Ilocos Norte. She was described as being “more mestiza” than Monina. Years after the Carnival, her kidnapping was reported in the papers.

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LUZ VILLALUNA, 1930 Miss VISAYAS

She was Centro Escolar de Señoritas’ reigning Queen of Charity Fair. Luz was described in a Graphic write up as, “most typically Filipina in looks…is one of those women to whom photographs never do justice’.

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ROSARIO RUIZ ZORILLA, 1930 Miss MINDANAO

A candidate of the Herald and a student in the College of Law at the University of the Philippines. She did not finish her studies as she married her consort the following year—Rosendo M. Chanco, an advertising executive. Musically inclined, she plays the piano and the violin. There is an intelligent quietness about her, she talks evenly and she was described as " being the best-read among the beauties".

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