Word: skaters
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...return match with Champion Gene Tunney. That year a brown-eyed little Norwegian girl named Sonja Henie, having won her first world's championship, was about to win her first Olympic crown. For the comparatively few who took an interest in skating, she was the most famous woman skater in the world...
Last week Sonja Henie, vacationing in Norway, was still the most famous woman skater in the world. In competition no longer, at 29 she was a greater box-office name, a more compelling magnet for crowds than ever before. She was not only, in Sportswriter Joe Williams' words, "undoubtedly the biggest individual draw sports ever produced," but she was also Hollywood's third-ranking box-office star* with four phenomenally successful pictures behind her and another, just released, well calculated to ring the bell again. Sonja Henie has been called variously Queen of the Ice, Pavlova on Skates...
Second Fiddle. Because Sonja Henie is still a celebrity-in-the-movies rather than a movie celebrity, a skater who plays in skating pictures, her cinema personality is closer to her real one than Hollywood usually allows. Many of her more literal-minded fans, indeed, have a tendency to interpret her pictures as autobiographical. In One In a Million her fans recognized the story of her painstaking rise to an Olympic title, coached and protected by a loving father who once had Olympic ambitions himself-a figure much like that jolly, bicycle-riding Oslo shopkeeper, Wilhelm Henie. When...
...told Sonja Henie she could be another Garbo was an ebullient Irish-American, Dennis Russell Scanlan of St. Paul, who ran, and runs today, a prosperous surgical-instruments business in Sweden and Manhattan. In 1920 Scanlan had set Norway on its ear by staging an Oslo show for Chicago Skater Bobby McLean that grossed $76,000. The Henies and Mr. Scanlan saw something attractive in each other. In 1935 they put their heads together over Sonja. The Henie filmplaner were simple. Sonja was to go out in a blaze of amateur glory in the 1936 Olympics, then cash in before...
...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 supposedly lucky pairs. Despite these precautions, she has taken falls which she believes would have killed a less experienced skater, got a brain concussion when she tripped over the edge of the rink making Happy Landing. The Henie legs, as shapely as they are useful, are insured against accident for the largest sum Lloyd's would underwrite, $5,000 a week...