Maureen Neliya Hingert (1937)

The beautiful Ms Maureen Hingert, Miss Ceylon, who went on to become the second runner-up at the Miss Universe Contest 1955 lived, with her parents, down Lorensz Road. The final results at the beauty pageant was as follows:-

Miss Universe 1955: HILLEVI ROMBIN Sweden 1st Runner Up: MARIBEL ARIOLA - El Salvador 2nd Runner Up: MAUREEN HINGERT - Ceylon 3rd Runner Up: MARGUT NUNKE - Germany 4th Runner Up: KEIKO TAKAHASHI - Japan

Maureen was born in Ceylon, the daughter of Lionel Hingert and Lorna Mabel de Run. She won the Miss Ceylon contest in 1955 and also in 1955 she becomes second runner-up to Hillevi Rombin, Miss Sweden, in the Miss Universe contest.

In 1956-57, under her real name she stars opposite Maxwell Reed as Anura, a beautiful South Seas native girl, in the British TV series Captain David Grief, shot on location in Mexico.

Revealing photographs of her appear in the September 1957 edition of Playboy in scenes from the film Gun Fever. In 1958 she acts in the film Fort Bowie on location at the Kanab Movie Fort at Kanab, Utah.

She had a daughter, Gina. More information on Maureen can be seen at the following link: http://www.glamourgirlsofthesilverscreen.com/show/132/Maureen+Hingert/index.ht Many other small houses with adjacent common walls lined the right side of the street all the way down to the end. Proctor NM Zaheed of Kotahena bought one of the houses opposite the Saraswathi Hall where one of his sons, Huzair Zaheed, lived with his family. Huzair was married to Zulaiha, the eldest daughter of Rameela Sameer, grand-daughter of Muhammad Sameer of 298 Galle Road fame. Rameela and family lived at No 43 Lily Avenue Wellawatte. Lorensz Road was located right opposite to Sagara Road. Mr and Mrs Fernando with their one and only daughter lved there before they moved to AustraliaMiss Rene and Miss Alvis lived down Skeleton Road and so did Mr. and Mrs Colin from Mack School of dancing (Britisher)