Word: sonja
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Million (Twentieth Century-Fox J rates as a classic because it preserves for posterity the spectacle of Sonja Henie skating. Ten times (1927 to 1936) world, three times (1928, 1932, 1936) Olympic figure skating champion, Skater Henie is without doubt the best figure skater who ever lived. For her, the 80 standard figures on which figure skating is based are not a test of skill, but the vocabulary of a form of self-expression which for sheer elegance compares to ballet dancing as the ballet compares to the Lindy-hop. Skater Henie's No. i specialty...
...program is further embellished by an extremely well photographed reel entitled "Swiss on White," featuring a striking exhibition of figure skating by the famous Sonja Heuie. In addition several good shots of other winter sports are shown...
Fortnight ago Sonja arrived in Manhattan, squired by her watchful father, whose fur business seldom receives his attention, and her morose, dour-faced mother. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer offered her screen tests, two other companies put in bids. When M-G-M demanded that she skate in her pictures, thus losing her amateur status, she hesitated. Then her sound business sense got the better of her. She signed for the tour. Signed with her was 19 year-old British Jack Dunn, who finished fifth at Garmisch-Partenkirchen last month, is now her most persistent companion...
Should the solid, saucy-faced little blonde appear in cinema, most of Europe's royalty would be her devoted fans. Queen Mary gasped when she saw Sonja in 1928, deplored the fact that she herself could not figure skate. Edward VIII has paid her many a kingly compliment. In 1934 ex-Crown Prince Friedrich Wilhelm of Germany gave her his diamond stickpin crowned with the Hohenzollern crest. Her own sovereign, King Haakon VII of Norway, sends her a telegram or cable before every foreign appearance. And Reichsführer Adolf Hitler this winter invited Sonja and her parents...
Exactly what she hopes to do in the cinema, Sonja Henie last week made quite clear: "I want to do with skates what Fred Astaire is doing with dancing. No one has ever done it in the movies, and I want to." Tremendously impressed with Miss Henie, M-G-M frantically searched for a "suitable vehicle...