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...promoting business was not all Joe's idea. Last month in Chicago's Belmont Hotel, the champ had listened and nodded as two men unfolded the details of the deal. One of them was promotion-wise Arthur M. Wirtz, co-owner of Sonja Henie's Hollywood Ice Revue. The other was Grain Operator James D. Norris, son of the owner of the Detroit Red Wings. They offered Joe a third interest in a new promotional firm to be called the International Boxing Club. It sounded good to Joe. Last week, the three partners met again at Norris...
Howdy, Mr. Ice (produced by Sonja Henie & Arthur M. Wirtz) is the sixth of the Center Theater's mammoth, popular ice carnivals. In terms of titles, it would seem that the management is really getting desperate. But not in terms of customers: almost eight million people have sat in on the skating-and no one has yet considered producing a Toodle-oo, Mr. Ice. Indeed, though all the shows have a strong family resemblance, this season's has more bounce than last...
...Both Sonja and Barbara Ann subscribe to the theory that it is wiser to try a single jump and be sure of making it than to try a double jump and miss. As a result, their "free" programs-which are, in effect, ballet solos on ice-are less daring than some skaters'. But there the likeness ends. Barbara Ann usually manages to say the right thing (or at least the polite thing). When something irked Sonja, and many things did, she was more than apt to blurt: "It stinks...
...often with chafed knees and dried tearstains on her cheeks. At eight, as the Spirit of the New Year in the Minto Follies, the Ottawa Journal called her "the darling of the show." At ten she became the youngest Canadian girl ever to win the gold medal,* and met Sonja Henie, who took Barbara out to tea and gave her an autographed picture of herself in a gold frame...
...Dedicated Girl. Sonja, ten times world's champion, was not very popular around Ottawa, after a visit in 1932 (as an amateur) when she demanded, but did not get, $2,000 expense money for herself, papa, mama, trainer, maid, dog and parrot. She was never Barbara Ann's ideal, but she represented her objective. At eleven, Barbara Ann took one big step toward that objective-by becoming junior champion of Canada. Two years later, in September 1941, Clyde Scott collapsed while watching a bridge game, and died. It almost broke his daughter's heart...