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...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 10, on rented skates in Ottawa. Le Verne (last name Busher) developed her off-beat virtuosity at De-Pauw University and in Chicago...
Since Cook's entrances are infrequent, since the musical score is chiefly valuable for spurring on the skaters, the performance rests largely on the skating. Enthusiasts for the art will find just about every variety they could want, from the classic duos of Hedi Stenuf and Skippy Baxter through some highly ludicrous comedy gliding to the syncopated mastery of an auburn-haired young woman named Le Verne. By way of encouragement to the patriotic spirit of the times, the production closes with a copper-tinted ballet entitled What's On The Penny, reminding the audience that "E Pluribus...
...peppy Audrey Peppe, whose brilliant free skating stopped the show. This year, with Miss Peppe out of competition (she is skating in a professional ice show), Queen Joan found her throne threatened by another equally brilliant free skater, a newcomer to U. S. competition: 17-year-old Heddy Stenuf. A Viennese who finished second to England's Megan Taylor in the world's championship at Prague last year, vivacious little Heddy captivated the spectators last week with her spins and jumps. But the judges, who like to point out that figure skating is not dancing on ice, awarded...
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