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Divorced. By Sonja Henie Topping, 35, tentime world-champion figure skater*: Daniel Reid Topping, 35, playboyish part-owner of baseball's New York Yankees, owner of professional football's New York Football Yankees; in Chicago. Grounds: desertion...
...Sonja Henie, whose skates are lyric, was named Least Cooperative Actress of the Year by the Hollywood Women's Press Club. Runners-up: Veronica Lake, Betty Grable, Lana Turner. Men's champion: Walter Pidgeon. Said he: "It's just like being nominated for the Academy award...
...delivery room, while Phil Baker (himself) halts the program to page Dr. Preston over the air. The six questions and one extra try answered by Eddie deal exclusively with the movies, giving 20th Century-Fox a thrifty opportunity to trot out Betty Grable, Alice Faye, Shirley Temple, Jack Oakie, Sonja Henie, George Montgomery and other high spots clipped from 20th Century-Fox films. Like the picture's obstetrical exigencies, the pace is brisk. Benjamin Stoloff's direction is gingersnappy...
Hats Off to Ice (produced by Sonja Henie and Arthur M. Wirtz) gave Manhattan's vast Center Theater its fifth polar pageant in four years. Though any of these monster skating parties could pardonably be mistaken for any other, Hats Off-with its glossy look, its smart showmanship, its varied skill-is one of the best...
...sport tumbled in World War I. Not until the 1930s did it start rolling again, when Sonja Henie's movies made the world figure-skating conscious. Roller enthusiasts perfected the same 41 basic school figures which constitute ice skating's International Style. By 1942, the U.S. had 4,000 rinks, 10 million skaters...