Word: sonja
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...play exhibition matches in movie houses. Current rumor is that Walt Disney will produce a badminton cartoon in which Mickey Mouse will oppose Donald Duck. In Hollywood, badminton is not only handy as a sport and reducing exercise but also as an excuse for new poses by actresses like Sonja Henie, Glenda Farrell, Joan Crawford, Anita Louise, Simone Simon (see cuts, p. 35). In addition to novelty, badminton has over tennis the advantage that, since the game consists largely of scrambling, the posture of the subject does not, like that of almost any actress photographed with a tennis racquet, reveal...
...figure skating is London, which has six indoor rinks to New York's two, and an amazing number of high-grade figure skaters. The women's figure skating championship of the world was held in London in 1928 and again last week. Winner in 1928 was Sonja Henie, in the second year of her ten-year career as the world's ablest woman skater. Last spring Sonja Henie stopped skating in tournaments to skate in the cinema and last week's winner, heir to Miss Henie's title, was an English girl who may hold...
Figure skating tournaments are divided into free skating, in which competitors execute their own specialties, and school figures, selected by lot from 42 standard maneuvers with which all figure skaters are supposed to be familiar. Experts consider Champion Colledge's free skating repertoire more difficult than Sonja Henie's, especially her double-revolution jump which no other woman skater has ever tried in competition. Her next appearance on ice will be an exhibition at the Toronto Skating Carnival next week...
...Sonja as Greta Mueller is the daughter of the keeper of a small Swiss chalet. Her father, accused of professionalism after winning the 1908 Olympics, has trained his daughter for twelve years in the hope that she might win the award which he "won and lost...
...Sonja is discovered by small-time theatrical producer, Adolf Menjou, who sees a vision of "dancing on ice", one hundred skaters, a symphony, orchestra, Madison Square Garden, spangles, and spotlights and Greta of course. Induced to be featured with his troupe. Greta is nearly disqualified in the games because of this. Don Ameche, a reporter for the Paris Gazzette saves the day, and provides the love interest with old fashioned restraint...