A Beauty Queen

The "Girl's Awakening" association, following its custom of every year, issued invitations to a grand dancing party at the Normandy Hotel, for the election of the beauty queen of Beirut for the year 1950.

The hall of the Normandy was crowded with a public drawn from every class of the people, among them the minister, the deputy, the merchant, and the student! And the lovely young girls preened as they turned in the circles of the dance!

Yet despite the great throng at the party, the young ladies who entered the contest numbered eight and no more. Miss Elsie Salameh was elected beauty queen of Beirut for 1950, and she received her first congratulation — a warm kiss — from the chairman of the judging committee, Dr. Raif Abillama, His Excellency the Minister of Education and Fine Arts.