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...nearly a century after Merlin's smashing entrance, the sport remained a parlor trick. In 1849 grand opera really put it on its wheels. For an ice-skating scene in Meyerbeer's Le Prophète, the ballet wore rollers. Rehearsals were bruising-one ballet skater landed in the bass drum-but in London and Paris the scene was a hit. Skating became an international rage...
Next the Nazis tried terror. Two famed skiers, Krisitian Aubert and Tor Salvesen, were questioned by the Gestapo; burly torturers trampled on their chests until shattered ribs pierced their lungs. Skater Ivar Ballanrud and scores of other athletes were arrested. But of Norway's 300,000 organized sportsmen, no more than 1% went over to the quislings...
Mabel Fairbanks is no carbon copy of Sonja Henie or Maribel Vinson. But experts rate her superior to most white amateurs and unquestionably the best skater of her race. Shy, timid and coal-black, she tried on her first pair of skates less than four years ago. Within six months she was mastering spirals, sit-down spins and stops -figures that spill many a veteran. A manager took Mabel in tow, dubbed her "The Swanee Snow Bird" because she was born in Florida, booked her at a scattering of Manhattan rinks. She learned how to dance...
...Wintertime" is typical Sonja Henie fare. It has a plot--a Norweglan skater attempts to save the fortunes of a bankrupt winter resort; it has a romance--she falls in love in the process. Sonja Henie performs excellently on ice and produces pout and dimple effects...
Hired by Hollywood to write a film story for an ice skater was ponderous Theodore Dreiser, 71. The New York Post reported, in the past tense: "Theodore Dreiser . . . was a titan ... he was one of the favored modern authors. . . . In 1925 he published An American Tragedy, a major work...