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Died. Oscar Johnson, 71, one of three founders of Shipstads and Johnson Ice Follies, the first traveling ice show in the U.S.; of cancer; in Rochester, Minn. As a young man, Johnson entertained Sunday crowds with his skating acrobatics, and later, with Roy and Eddie Shipstad, performed comedy routines at ice carnivals throughout the U.S. In 1936, they conceived the idea of a traveling ice show and the following year recruited a cast of 23, and opened the Ice Follies at Tulsa, Okla...
Enter Old Betsy. The kind of expensive, splashy icetravaganza mounted in the mudflats of New Delhi last week was launched in 1936 when Professional Skaters Oscar Johnson and Eddie and Roy Shipstad teamed up in the Ice Follies, were followed the next year by Sonja Henie in Arthur Wirtz's Hollywood...
...Follies of 1941 (produced by Oscar F. Johnson, Edwin H. & Roy L. Shipstad ). Like its four annual predecessors, this big, glistening chunk of the new Ice Age will tour throughout the U. S. (23 cities this year). Today's fancy ice skaters have developed an astounding rapport with each other and with frozen water. They have already done about everything on skates it would be safe to show the children. To other, less accomplished skaters, the great ice stars already begin to seem like gods. To timid nonskaters they frequently seem on the point of killing themselves...
Producer Roy Shipstad, who advertises himself as "the greatest male skater in the world today," probably is. He is to the ice what Fred Astaire is to the boards. And as the last couple in a group waltz (spectators will do well to spot them from the beginning of the number), young Ruby & Bobby Maxson from Duluth do perhaps the most beautifully abandoned pair-skating the ice has ever held...
...last winter a U. S. promoter saw them, hired them to do their stuff at Hollywood's Tropical Ice Garden. When the Tropical Ice Garden melted after four weeks, Frick & Frack got one job and another, finally found themselves in St. Paul's Skating Carnival. There Producers Shipstad & Johnson, who know a good comic when they see one, grabbed the boys from Basle-at $500 a week for 48 weeks of the year...