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...Valley Serenade" does have all that and more to boot. Sonja Henie, in addition to her solo winter sports carnival, proves to be no slouch at parlor games and turns in a first rate romantic performance. Playing a Norwegian refugee adopted by Miller's band as a publicity gag, Sonja falls for pianist-arranger John Payne. He, however, is already somewhat attached to torch singer Lynn Bari. The torcher oozes more sex appeal than the skater, but she's a dub in the snow. So Sonja gets Payne out in the open and love soon finds a way to leave...
...Valley Serenade (20th Century-Fox) is pleasantly put together around the reasonable assumption that Sonja Henie fans have tired of seeing Henie skate. Instead, Sonja plays a Norwegian refugee who skis...
...Although Sonja Henie and her ballet give only one performance on skates, it is stylishly performed in pure white costumes on a sheet of coal-black ice (part water, part India ink). To prevent the skate marks from showing up white it was necessary to keep a film of unfrozen water over the black...
...Sonja Henie was giving a skating exhibition at the Hershey Arena, Hershey, Pa. I was taking movies of her when she fell on the ice directly in front of me. I had photographs taken of my movie film and prints made therefrom...
After announcing he might seek draft deferment because his football team needed him (TIME, Jan. 20), Sportsman-Socialite Dan Topping, angel of the Brooklyn Dodgers and husband of Skater Sonja Henie, got off because he had stomach ulcers...