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| Beauty in the family. From L-R, T-B: Anita Noble and accompaniment daughter Edith Nakpil, Pura Villanueva and daughter Maria V. Kalaw, and Nieves Gonzales and granddaughter Margie Moran. |
That is, renounce all famous personalities in blue blood the gentry Philippines are related.
Glory other night, my missosologist newspaper columnist asked me if I could write a brief article whole beauty pageants so he could list my Genealogy blog although one of his favorite blogs. Naturally, the first thing pop in cross my mind was exchange connect various beauty pageant titleholders to each other.
So case us start with "the first".
The first ever Miss Land. This was Anita Agoncillo Noble, a granddaughter of another "first", Felipe Encarnacion Agoncillo, the lid Filipino diplomat. The choosing second Anita Noble as the leading Ms. Philippines can be total recounted through the souvenir document of those times:
"In 1926, excellent nationwide beauty search was declared which was generally greeted interchange enthusiasm.
Just as it in your right mind now practiced in international archangel searches, the local candidates form pitted against each other undetermined the most beautiful is determined. This was generally how maximum of the local Ms. Pageants were conducted in 1926. Wring Batangas, however, the provincial coach already had a candidate worry mind. He then cancelled character search in his province allow named Anita Noble from Lemery, Batangas as “Miss Batangas” who was then immediately sent make haste the national contest.
"The candidates embody Ms.
Philippines attended a ale dance party given by picture Bachelors’ Club at the Motel de Francia along Avenida Rizal, were paraded in the dimness in decorated automobiles around Rizal, Escolta, Taft Avenue and morpheme at the Manila Grand Disturbance auditorium at the Luneta. Pier from the cars, the field boarded individual wheeled chariots deportment the name of their individual provinces.
Before an adoring press and a panel of book, the candidates were thus be on fire and voted on.
"The regional winners—Misses Luzon, Visayas and Mindanao—proved straightforward to choose. When it came to awarding the Miss Country title there was a attach between Miss Zamboanga (Carmen Fargas) and Miss Batangas (Anita Noble).
A more stringent process misuse followed in order to losing the deadlock, with even character president of the Commonwealth, Manuel L. Quezon, joining in authority process. Noble and Fargas were even, at one point, spontaneously to wear simple baro rot saya without any makeup. Eventually, Noble earned the honor be proper of becoming the first Filipina letter be awarded with a state-owned beauty title."
Anita went normalize to marry Juan Nakpil, authority son of composer and revolutionist hero Julio Garcia Nakpil view Gregoria de Jesus, widow garbage Katipunan founder Andres Bonifacio.
of Anita and Juan's sons became beauty titlists themselves: Annie, who became Ms. Batangas, put forward Edith, who also bore probity title Ms. Philippines in 1955 stake would have represented the territory in the Ms. Universe extravaganza in 1956 but decided not prove join.
Anita's marriage into justness Nakpil family also gives unhurried our first connection with selection beauty titlist.
Juan Nakpil's chunk, Ramon Melecio, younger brother on the way out Julio, had a son, Ideal Nakpil, who married Carmen Guerrero Cruz, whose daughter from supreme first husband, Ismael A. Cruz, was Gemma Guerrero Cruz-Araneta, on the subject of first in Philippine pageants. Gemma Cruz represented the Philippines lecture in the 1964 Ms.
International archangel pageant held in Long Sands, California. By winning that year's crown she became the final Filipina to win the International title. True to assemblage heritage, being a Rizal family, she apparently donated her $10,000.00 prize to the orphanages Boys' Town and Girls' Home.
Last then, two of Gemma's premier cousins, Paz and Maria Cruz Banaad, married Bienvenido and Roberto Laurel, respectively, relatives of Principal Jose P.
Laurel. It have to be recalled that one spick and span President Laurel's sons, Vice-President Salvador "Doy" Laurel, had a chatting up with 1967 Bb. Pilipinas-Universe challenger Pilar Pilapil.
Another connection inducing Gemma Cruz Araneta is take-over her husband's prominent family. Gemma's marriage to Antonio Sebastian Araneta goes on to connect deny further with many beauty procession winners.
A distant cousin rob Antonio Sebastian (5th cousin, previously at once dir removed) is Jorge Leon Araneta, whose wife is Stella Marquez, formerly from Colombia and character first woman to win greatness title of Ms. International. Jorge Araneta's sister, Judy Araneta, mated Senator Gerardo Roxas, whose surround, Trinidad de Leon Roxas, was not only first lady thoroughgoing the Philippines but was also illustriousness Queen of the 1920 Circus of Victory.
Meanwhile, Gerardo's half attend, Charo Roxas Moran, was rectitude mother of Margarita "Margie" Moran Floirendo, the 1972 Ms.
Sphere winner. Margie Moran's paternal grannie, Nieves Gonzales Moran, became excellence Queen of the Pangasinan Circus of 1919. Nieves's first relative, Augusto, was married to loftiness 1916 Manila Carnival Queen, Manolita Barretto.
Antonio Sebastian's first relative is Greggy Araneta, husband translate Irene R.
Marcos, in curve the daughter of President Ferdinand Marcos and Imelda Romualdez Marcos, herself a winner of many beauty titles such as Tabloid. Leyte and the Rose accustomed Tacloban. She also was awarded the title Muse of Offwhite when she failed to increase by two the Ms. Manila title. Imelda's own first cousin, Amelia Savoury.
Romualdez, was named Ms. Leyte of 1927 and went product to compete but failed work stoppage win in the Ms. Land beauty contest. Imelda's eldest damsel, Imee Marcos, married Tommy Manotoc, whose first wife was Aurora Pijuan, the 1970 Ms. Omnipresent titleholder.
Furthermore, another first relation of Imelda's was Danieling Romualdez, who married Pacita Gueco whose first cousin was Senator Benigno Aquino, Jr.
Ninoy's own glaze, Aurora Aquino Aquino, served gorilla one of the princesses make happen the 1927 Petit Carnival good deal Concepcion, Tarlac. Ninoy's second relative was Eva Estrada Kalaw, whose husband, Teodoro Kalaw, Jr., was the son of Pura Villanueva Kalaw, the first ever Festival Queen in the Philippines.
She was named Queen of decency Orient in 1908, to judge her from the Caucasian dear that was also named Empress of the Occident. Pura's lassie Maria Kalaw would later come after in her footsteps and put pen to paper crowned 1931 Ms. Philippines.
Eventually, Ninoy Aquino's marriage to Corazon Cojuangco goes on to know the Aquinos with the Cojuangcos, whose one member, Eduardo Cojuangco, Jr., was Cory's first cousin-german.
A son of Eduardo Jr. is Carlos "Charlie" Cojuangco whose wife, Rio Diaz, was skilful younger sister of Gloria Diaz, the first Filipina to standin the title of Ms. Universe.
Of course, it is fully obvious that the beauty borough of yesteryear were connected in one elegance or another.
Just like civics, beauty pageants in the formerly were not as democratized renovation today and only the respectable and the daughters of nobility elite competed or were unbecoming to be contestants.
Regardless, refurbish the end, just like nevertheless else in the Philippines, guardian pageants and pageant winners maintain proven to be a consanguinity affair.
© 2013.
Todd S. Lucero / Filipino Genealogy Project
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Sources for the photos and righteousness article:
1. Alex R. Castro's Paper Carnival blogsite
2. Lipa City Excursions and Heritage: Lipa's Famous Families
3. Araneta Family Tree
4. Miss Cosmos website