Word: newe
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Montreal, a new revue called the Ice Vanities, produced by Bill O'Brien (promoter of the Vines-Perry professional tennis tours) and featuring Prague's Vera Hruba and Ottawa's Guy Owen, played to sellout crowds in the eighth stop of its U. S. and Canadian tour...
...they can be sure of making larger profits than they ever made in peace, and have complete guarantee against loss." He said Britain's total tonnage loss for three months was 340,000, offset by 280,000 tons transferred from other flags (exclusive of charters), captured or built new. Net loss: 60,000 tons out of a grand total of 21,000,000 tons. For every 1,000 British tons sunk, 110,000 tons reached British ports and nearly 140,000 tons went out, a ratio...
Sophisticated New Yorkers, accustomed to the finesse of their annual Skating Club Carnivals, have been slow to warm up to professional, itinerant ice shows. Last week, however, when the Ice Follies of 1940 hit town, New Yorkers crammed Madison Square Garden to the rafters for six nights, whistled and stomped like yokels. For suddenly, it seemed, the variety-show-on-ice had crystallized into first-rate entertainment...
Beautifully costumed, cleverly staged, its acts varied from acrobatics to ballet, from comic capers to spinning solos. It had no glittering star like Hollywood's Sonja Henie. But skating fans last week were ready to adopt new ice gods: Wisconsin's piquant Bess Ehrhardt and dashing Roy Shipstad (the "human top"); Adagio Specialists Idi Papez and Karl Zwack of Vienna (onetime European pair champions) ; Brooklyn-born Evelyn Chandler, who turns nine Arabian cartwheels without touching hands to ice; little Harris Legg, who takes a breath-taking leap over a lineup of eleven barrels and as a giant snowman...
...rehearsal last week was still another grand-scale ice show, the European All-Star Ice Revue. Its cast includes two dozen British skaters who found themselves jobless this winter, Switzerland's famed Armand Perren (King Leopold's skating instructor), South Africa's Edwina Blades and New York's peppy Audrey Peppe (twice runner-up for the U. S. amateur figure-skating championship), who turned professional last week...