Word: maribel
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...effortless skating of Guy Owen and Maribel Vinson will probably satisfy ice purists. Stunts purely difficult, but lacking any sort of entertainment value, are kept to a bare minimum. Perhaps the hardest stunt, and certainly the most unsuccessful, is the attempt to dub in music from off-stage while the performers are going through an intricate dance, and apparently a crisis in the plot. There is little original music; most of the songs come from old musical comedies, and are supposed to fit the current situation in the story. While there is something definitely second-rate about this, "Everything...
James M. Daleo '49--Maribel Asher (Pine Manor...
Mabel Fairbanks is no carbon copy of Sonja Henie or Maribel Vinson. But experts rate her superior to most white amateurs and unquestionably the best skater of her race. Shy, timid and coal-black, she tried on her first pair of skates less than four years ago. Within six months she was mastering spirals, sit-down spins and stops -figures that spill many a veteran. A manager took Mabel in tow, dubbed her "The Swanee Snow Bird" because she was born in Florida, booked her at a scattering of Manhattan rinks. She learned how to dance...
Behind Gretchen Merrill's victory were seven years of hard work. A perfectionist, emulating the career of her childhood heroine and present tutor, nine-time national champion Maribel Vinson, Miss Merrill has led a Spartan life during skating seasons. She goes to bed at 7 o'clock so she can be up at 6:30 for practice before school; diets on steak, spinach and milk to keep herself in shape. Her free-skating routines she maps out on paper and tries out at home in her stocking feet, taking her split jumps over a sofa...