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...Battle of Russia moves in three great waves of action: the first seven months of invasion; the siege of Leningrad; the Stalingrad campaign. There are serious weaknesses: figure-skating around the Russian Revolution and the German-Soviet Pact which Sonja Henie could envy; blurring into romancing (as in some specious shots of gibbeted civilians); surprising failures to make the most of great material (Leningrad's fortitude is reinforced by only a hint of Leningrad's semistarvation). But overall and in most of its detail the film has remarkable power. Its power results from a simple fact: the greatest...
Mabel Fairbanks is no carbon copy of Sonja Henie or Maribel Vinson. But experts rate her superior to most white amateurs and unquestionably the best skater of her race. Shy, timid and coal-black, she tried on her first pair of skates less than four years ago. Within six months she was mastering spirals, sit-down spins and stops -figures that spill many a veteran. A manager took Mabel in tow, dubbed her "The Swanee Snow Bird" because she was born in Florida, booked her at a scattering of Manhattan rinks. She learned how to dance...
...Wintertime" is typical Sonja Henie fare. It has a plot--a Norweglan skater attempts to save the fortunes of a bankrupt winter resort; it has a romance--she falls in love in the process. Sonja Henie performs excellently on ice and produces pout and dimple effects...
Appleblossom Beauties. The uniform Artist Shepard designed was entirely satis factory to Boss Wrigley. As dignified as the field hockey costume of New Eng land's fashionable boarding schools, it still had the provocativeness of a Sonja Henie skating skirt. Scout Hamilton's job was satisfactory too. He had turned down several outstanding players because they were either too uncouth, too hardboiled, or too masculine...
Philadelphia's Jane Vaughn Sullivan, a war bride. Co-favorites were 17-year-old Gretchen Merrill, a Boston subdeb, and 14-year-old Dorothy Goos, a giggling Bronx schoolgirl with dreams of a Sonja Henie career. Miss Merrill, twice runner-up to Champion Vaughn, was bent on winning the title for the glory of Boston's skating swells. Miss Goos, a newcomer to senior ranks, was trying to accomplish something no figure skater had ever done: win the novice, junior and senior titles in three successive years...