Miss Elizabeth Simon, crowned “Miss Europe” at the beauty contest in Paris, is engaged to be married to a Jewish young man, Weinzieher, of a well-to-do family of the town Topolcsany, Hungary, according to a report today in the Austrian press.
The wedding is to take place after the Feast of Weeks, the middle of June. The papers add that “Miss Europe” intends to participate in the international beauty contest which is to take place in Paris for the title “Miss Universe,” competing with “Miss America,” who is to be chosen at Galveston, according to latest plans.
A review of major undertakings in Jewish life appears in the American Year Book for 1928, a standard reference work, issued under the auspices of the New York Times Company, with the aid of forty-five learned societies. The volume, which has just been published by Doubleday, Doran and Company, is edited by Professor Albert Bushnell Hart and William M. Schuyler, associate editor.
The resume of Jewish events, under the title of “Judaism and Communal Affairs,” has for the fifth consecutive year, been prepared by Bernard G. Richards, Executive Secretary of the American Jewish Congress.
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