Word: rinks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...recognizable portrait of Sonja Henie's past, Second Fiddle raises several interesting questions about her future. It is the first picture in which her skating is incidental to the plot. The skating sequences show her informally on the schoolhouse rink, formally in an elaborate production number that takes place in her daydreams while she is lounging by a California swimming pool. For, as Ginger Rogers yearns to do, and occasionally does, pictures without her dancing shoes, Sonja Henie's ambition is to do one without her skates. Judging from the acting Trudi Hovland does before her glass with...
...Henie's life is that she will kill or maim herself at her very dangerous profession. To keep the ice clear of objects that might send her arsy-versy when she is traveling at 35 m.p.h., her troupe is forbidden to wear hairpins, the electrical superstructure over the rink is scrupulously vacuumed. Among Sonja's skating shoes, of white calf lined with chamois which cost her $45 a pair, and her skates, which are made by John E. Strauss of St. Paul, Minn, (sometimes described as "the master skate man of the world"), for about $30, are several...
Although they consistently outplayed their opponents, the Freshman pucksters lost a 5 to 3 decision to the Dartmouth sextet yesterday afternoon at the Boston Skating Club rink...
Playing chiefly a defensive game, the Freshman pucksters bowed to a well-integrated St. Paul's sextet 5 to 2 yesterday at the Boston Skating Club's new rink...
Winter and Perry are advocating the construction of a rink in front of Hollis Hall where water could be easily gotten from the pump. Skating not only for pleasure, they were also demonstrating the possibilities of their idea...