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...Leonidoff rehearsed the glacial $200,000 spectacle in an overcoat and rubbers, while the pianist swathed himself in camel's hair. The huge cast that swirls and veers through Norman Bel Geddes' wintry landscapes was drawn from as far away as Austria and South Africa. Although Producer Sonja Henie, most famed skatress of them all, does not appear in her own production, she has a worthy substitute in Premiere Ballerina Stenuf, an engagingly plump Viennese who was runner-up to Henie in the 1936 Olympics. Skippy Baxter, a Massine of the runners, began his career, aged...
...Happens on Ice-A Musical Icetravaganza (music by Vernon Duke & others, lyrics by Al Stillman; produced by Sonja Henie & Arthur Wirtz) is a vast and chilly vaudeville which slides across 50 tons of ice covering the enlarged stage of the Rockefellers' Center Theatre. Before and behind a curtain composed of 315,720,000 fibres of shimmering glass, a large company of skaters perform a series of fleet and charming ballets interrupted by specialty turns and, not often enough for many spectators, Joe Cook. Steel runners on ice add many mobile possibilities to the human body, and these have never...
...child with different ideas was Sonja Willner, 13. She painted elves, fairies, dancers, U. S. children at their books. This was explained by the fact that Sonja Willner had a different background: she is a refugee from Austria...
...Married. Sonja Henie, 30, chubby, figure-skating cinemactress, ice-revue star; and Sportsman Daniel Reid Topping, 29, tin-plate heir, principal stockholder of the Brooklyn Dodgers professional football team; she for the first time, he for the third; in Chicago. Choked Sonja: "I have never been so happy...
...composite name of his program gets it off to a good start. But our high hopes are not completely fulfilled. Sonja Henie's picture, as per usual, consists of fancy skating and Scandinavian smiles--with a little plot thrown in for good measure. Ray Milland and Bob Cummings, in the roles of amorous newspaper correspondents, disappoint their city editors, but please the audience. And the broad, powdery expanse of Swiss Alps is a welcome sight after "Harvard Square's rutted slush...