Word: skater
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Follies of 1939 (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). With no individual star to rival Sonja Henie, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's Producer Harry Rapf, eager to capitalize on the vogue for skating spectacles launched by Twentieth Century-Fox's rotund little ex-Olympic skater, was forced to fall back on the reliable formula of the show within a show. Approximately half the footage of Ice Follies is devoted to the spinnings and whirlings of a troupe of professional skaters, photographed from all angles. The other half is devoted to a dull narrative in which James Stewart and Joan Crawford...
...that he has played in so far, he is leading the rest of his team in scoring. Goals and assists not show fully Harding's value to the team, however, for he has been a continual threat defensively and played more minutes on the ice than any other Crimson skater and as evidence of his clean playing, it is interesting to note that he is one of the few of the leading scorers who has not done time in the penalty...
...performance of Joan Tozzer, 17, defending champion, and Audrey Peppe, 20, who lost the title last year by the heart-breaking margin of 1 10 of a point. Joan Tozzer, blueblood, blonde daughter of Harvard's Anthropology Professor Alfred Marston Tozzer, is a letter-perfect skater of school figures (which count two-thirds in determining a national champion). Audrey Peppe (pronounced peppy), petite vivacious niece of Beatrix Loughran, national figure-skating champion in 1925-26-27 is famed for her spectacular free skating (self-selected routines, which count one-third in determining a champion...
Last week while Queen Sonja was winding up a transcontinental personal-appearance tour, which attracted 757,000 spectators and grossed $1,000,000, five little ladies-in-waiting met at St. Paul to see who is the best amateur figure skater in the U. S. Contrary to popular impression derived from the dozens of professional ice-skating shows that have been touring the country, figure skating is neither acrobatics on skates nor dancing on ice. The sport of figure skating has a set of explicit school figures, 41 in number, which must be executed with hairline precision...
...Timesman who-looks like a character from The Front Page, has been a speed skater, cyclist, jockey, milkwagon driver, chemist, mathematician, perfume manufacturer and aviator...