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Performance TitleMiss World Pageant 1978, in aid of Children's Charities Nominated by the Variety Club of Great Britain
Performance Date16 November 1978
Performance DayThursday
Performance Time20:00
Main PerformersCompetititors:
Silvana Suarez (Argentine),
Rose Ann Marie Lejuez (Aruba),
Denise Ellen Coward (Australia),
Doris Anwander (Austria),
Donna Marie McCook (Bahamas),
Francoise Moens (Belgium),
Madeline Francine Joell (Bermuda),
Liliana Guitievrez (Bolivia),
Laura Angelica Pereira (Brazil),
Brigitte Hofmann (Canada),
Wendy Lorraine Daykin (Cayman Islands),
Maria Trinidad Sepulveda Pavon (Chile),
Denise de Castro Santiago (Colombia),
Maribel Fernandez Garcia (Costa Rica),
Silvana Angely Trinidad (Curacao),
Mary Adamou (Cyprus),
Birgit Stefansen (Denmark),
Mona Jno-Lewis (Dominica),
Jenny Polanco (Dominican Republic),
Antonieta Cecila Campodonico Aguirre (Ecuador),
Iris Ivette Mazorra Castro (El Salvador),
Eija Laaksonen (Finland),
Kelly Hoarau (France),
Monika Greis (Germany),
Rosanna Bonfante (Gibraltar),
Ariana Dimitropoulou (Greece),
Elizabeth Tenorio (Guam),
Claudia Maria Iriarte (Guatemala),
Ans Van Haaster (Holland),
Maria Elena Bobadilla (Honduras),
Faustina Lin (Hong Kong),
Asdis Loftsdottir (Iceland),
Kalpana Iyer (India),
Lorraine Marion O'Conner (Ireland),
Carole Ann Kneale (Isle of Man),
Sari Alon (Israel),
Loren Cristina Mai (Italy),
Joan Marcia McDonald (Jamaica),
Yuko Yamaguchi (Japan),
Chantal Angeline Gosselin (Jersey),
Eun-Jin Jae (Korea),
Graziella Abufadel (Lebanon),
Kartina Osir (Malaysia),
Mary Cumbo (Malta),
Genevieve Chanea (Mauritius),
Martha Eugenia Ortiz Gamez (Mexico),
Lorian Dawn Tangney (New Zealand),
Irene Omagbemi (Nigeria),
Elisabeth Klaeboe (Norway),
Susana Del Pilar Galli (Paraguay),
Karen Ines Noeth (Peru),
Louvette Monzon Hammond (Philippines),
Maria J.Canizares (Puerto Rico),
June de Nobriga (St.Vincent),
Rosalina Sapolu (Samoa),
Rosie Tan (Singapore),
Gloria Valenciano (Spain),
Manohari Vanigasooriya (Sri Lanka),
Nyamalele Nilovu (Swaziland),
Ossie Margareta Carlsson (Sweden),
Jeannette Keller (Switzerland),
Moeata Schmouker (Tahiti),
Orasa Panichapan (Thailand),
Kathleen Thomas (Trinidad and Tobago),
Malek Nemlaghi (Tunisia),
Sevil Ozgultekin (Turkey),
Elizabeth Ann Jones (UK),
Debra Jean Freeze (USA),
Mabel Rua (Uruguay),
Patricia Toffoli (Venezuela),
Enid D'Lores Francis (Virgin Islands)

Sacha Distel - vocal
Orchestra or BandPhil Tate and The Miss World Orchestra
Set List'God Save the Queen' (The National Anthem)
Performance NotesThe event was filmed by BBC Television as was the dress rehearsal the previous day.

Miss Tunisia, Malak Nemlachi, was barred from competing for refusing to wear a white T-shirt and hotpants at a press conference held the day before the contest.

Silvana Suarez of Argentine was crowned Miss World. Ossie Carlsson of Sweden was runner-up and Denise Coward of Australia third.
Related Archival MaterialProgramme (RAHE/1/1978/184)
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Catalogue
Reference NumberTitleDate
RAHE/1/1978/184Miss World Pageant 1978, in aid of Children's Charities Nominated by the Variety Club of Great Britain16 November 1978
Work
Ref NoTitleNo of Performances
Okapaif_D_XcxMiss World Pageant 1978, in aid of Children's Charities Nominated by the Variety Club of Great Britain1
Performers
CodeName of Performer(s)
DS/UK/10931Miss World; 29 July 1951; International beauty pageant
DS/UK/10853Morley; Eric (1918-2000); British founder of the Miss World pageant
DS/UK/10847Distel; Sacha (1933-2004); French singer
DS/UK/18036Burnett; Paul (1943-); English radio DJ
DS/UK/13904Tate; Phil (1922-2005); English dance bandleader
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