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Performance TitleMiss World Pageant 1979, in aid of Children's Charities Nominated by the Variety Club of Great Britain
Performance Date15 November 1979
Performance DayTuesday
Performance Time19:45
Main PerformersContestants:
Veronica Ivonne Gargani (Argentine),
Vianca Maria Magdalena Hoek (Aruba),
Jodie Anne Day (Australia),
Karin Zorn (Austria),
Deborah Elizabeth Major (Bahamas),
Christine Linda Bernadette Cailliau (Belgium),
Gina Swainson (Bermuda),
Patricia Asbun Galarza (Bolivia),
Lea Silvia Dall'Acqua (Brazil),
Catherine Emily Mackintosh (Canada),
Jennifer Pearl Jackson (Cayman Islands),
Marianela Toledo (Chile),
Rosaura Rodriguez (Colombia),
Marianella Brealey (Costa Rica),
Eliana Djiaboura Chr (Cyprus),
Lone Gladys Jorgensen (Denmark),
Sabrina Brugal Tillan (Dominican Republic),
Olba Lourdes Padilla (Ecuador),
Ivette Lagos (El Salvador),
Tuire Venla Sulotar Pentikainen (Finland),
Sylvie Parera (France),
Andrea Hontschid (Germany),
Audrey Lopez (Gibraltar),
Mika (Dimitra) Dimitropoulou (Greece),
Anne-Marie Kay Franke (Guam),
Michele Marie Dominguez Santos (Guatemala),
Nannetje Johanna Nielen (Holland),
Gina Maria Weidner (Honduras),
Mary Ng (Hong Kong),
Sigrun Saetran (Iceland),
Raina Winfred Mendonica (India),
Maura Menamim (Ireland),
Kathleen Mary Craig (Isle of Man),
Dana Feller (Israel),
Rossana Serratore (Italy),
Debbie Rachelle Campbell (Jamaica),
Motomi Hibino (Japan),
Treena Alison Foster (Jersey),
Yeo-Jin (Sharon) Hong (Korea),
Jacky Riachi (Lebanon),
Pauline Essie Kanedi (Lesotho),
Shirley Chew (Malaysia),
Elena Christine Abela (Malta),
Maria Allard (Mauritius),
Roselina Rosas (Mexico),
Nicola Lesley Duckworth (New Zealand),
Helen Prest (Nigeria),
Jeanette Aarum (Norway),
Lorelei de la Ossa (Panama),
Martha Maria Galli Romannach (Paraguay),
Lucia Magali Perez Godoy Quintanilla (Peru),
Josefina Francisco (Philippines),
Ana Gonsalves (Portugal),
Daisy Marissette Lopez (Puerto Rico),
Danira Leilani Schwalger (Samoa),
Violet Lee (Singapore),
Lola Forner (Spain),
Shamila Weerasooria (Sri Lanka),
Gladys Adelaide Carmichael (Swaziland),
Ing-Marie Saveby (Sweden),
Barbara Mayer (Switzerland),
Thilda Raina Fuller (Tahiti),
Tipar Suparbpun (Thailand),
Marlene Coggins (Trinidad and Tobago),
Sebnem Unal (Turkey),
Carolyn Seaward (UK),
Carter Wilson (USA),
Laura Rodriguez (Uruguay),
Tatiana Capote Abdel (Venezuela),
Jasmine Olivia Turner (Virgin Islands)

Sacha Distel - vocal
Orchestra or BandPhil Tate and the Miss World Orchestra,
Trumpeters of the Coldstream Guards
ConductorsLt.-Colonel R A Ridings
Set List'Fanfare',
'God Save the Queen' (The National Anthem)
Performance NotesThe event was broadcast by BBC Television as was the dress rehearsal the previous day.

Miss Bermuda, Gina Swainson, aged 21, won the competition. Miss United Kingdom, Carolyn Seward came second and Miss Jamaica, Debbie Campbell, came third.
Related Archival MaterialProgramme (RAHE/1/1979/179)
URLhttps://thirdlight.royalalberthall.com/pf.tlx/Z03Z3uZEplc4B
Catalogue
Reference NumberTitleDate
RAHE/1/1979/179Miss World Pageant 1979, in aid of Children's Charities Nominated by the Variety Club of Great Britain15 November 1979
Work
Ref NoTitleNo of Performances
Oboz_Feam_XeagMiss World Pageant 1979, in aid of Children's Charities Nominated by the Variety Club of Great Britain1
Performers
CodeName of Performer(s)
DS/UK/10847Distel; Sacha (1933-2004); French singer
DS/UK/16177Rantzen; Esther Louise (1940-); CBE; British journalist, televison presenter
DS/UK/13904Tate; Phil (1922-2005); English dance bandleader
DS/UK/2429British Army; The Band of the Coldstream Guards; 1785-; British army band
DS/UK/10931Miss World; 29 July 1951; International beauty pageant
DS/UK/10853Morley; Eric (1918-2000); British founder of the Miss World pageant
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