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Every good figure skater can do a Jackson Haines spin, the showy sit-spin that has helped make ice shows a popular U. S. entertainment. But few U. S. skaters know much about Jackson Haines, the father of figure skating. Jackson Haines was not the first skater to trace a pattern on ice. As far back as 1642, there was a skating club in Edinburgh, whose membership was confined to those who could "skate a complete circle on each foot and jump over first one, then two, then three hats." In 1863, when Haines won the figure-skating championship...
...figure skaters have long wanted to celebrate Jackson Haines's birthday. But nobody - not even the late Irving Brokaw, whose Art of Skating is the figure skater's bible - had ever known the date. A few weeks before the national championships his birth month was unearthed. It turned out to be November 1840. Skaters were embarrassed to have just missed a chance to celebrate his centenary in the proper month...
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...
Figure skating on rollers is similar to figure skating on blades-except that roller skaters use the heel & toe where ice skaters use the blade's edges. Both have approximately the same 41 school figures. At the Arena Gardens, which "skate about 6,000 a week" at 50? a head, Manager Martin offers a half hour's free instruction in figure skating, elementary or advanced dancing every night. His 30-year-old son Bob and 19-year-old daughter Marjorie, aided by two other professionals, teach figure skating all day, at 50? to $1.50 for a 20-minute...
...chance against her. Last year and the year before, she edged out peppy Audrey Peppe, whose brilliant free skating stopped the show. This year, with Miss Peppe out of competition (she is skating in a professional ice show), Queen Joan found her throne threatened by another equally brilliant free skater, a newcomer to U. S. competition: 17-year-old Heddy Stenuf. A Viennese who finished second to England's Megan Taylor in the world's championship at Prague last year, vivacious little Heddy captivated the spectators last week with her spins and jumps. But the judges, who like...