
Image: V. D. Zhiganov.
Her sister Era (Ira) Krahmaleff, receiving her prize after winning the speed-typing competition in 1941. Note the faces of the other candidates:

Image: NCDN, Apr 1941.
Shanghai's crowned beauties, left to right: Top row: Zhou Shuping (1929), Elsie Kwok (1929), Takeko Inouye (1931), Helen Sloutsky (1931),…
A propos beauty pageants in old Shanghai, here is what sometimes comes out of them... --- Beauty Loses Case Against Local Journal Miss…
At last, the RAS Journal-2019 is out. It contains my article about the Miss Shanghai beauty pageants in 1929–1949. The issue download is…