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Bowling is not Twinkle's only talent. The other is figure skating, which she picked up two years ago, about the same time that she learned to bowl. Three months after lacing on her first skate, Twinkle gave an exhibition in Hollywood, was soon in demand as an entertainer (especially for her rumba number) between the periods of hockey games. Last summer Paramount hired her to make a Technicolor short. Today little Twinkle earns about $500 a month, is nearly worth her weight in gold...
...best thing in the picture, and it is they who save it from being slow and second-rate. Akim Tamiroff is a Russian waiting for his citizenship papers, and Lee Tracy is a legless beggar who seems to enjoy pushing himself around underfoot on a little roller-skate wagon. Mary Martin and Fred MacMurray are perfectly adequate in their roles, which demand neither a minimum nor a maximum of acting ability...
...Valley Serenade (20th Century-Fox) is pleasantly put together around the reasonable assumption that Sonja Henie fans have tired of seeing Henie skate. Instead, Sonja plays a Norwegian refugee who skis...
Although Sonja Henie and her ballet give only one performance on skates, it is stylishly performed in pure white costumes on a sheet of coal-black ice (part water, part India ink). To prevent the skate marks from showing up white it was necessary to keep a film of unfrozen water over the black...
Both have played a sort of "hot and cold" hockey most of the time, and it is altogether possible that the team which slays hot the longer on the ice tonight will skate off the winner...