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...skill; Former Model Jinx Clark; Jazz Skater Rudy Richards, who jitterbugs remarkably, but with the slight-and highly welcome-touch of restraint that ice and skates impose. Even more rewarding are two such Center standbys as Skippy Baxter, who can skate both very fast and fancy, and Freddie Trenkler, for whose great comic shenanigans familiarity only breeds admiration...
Topnotcher of this, as of previous Center shows, is Comic Freddie Trenkler, whose magnificent technique is directed entirely to madcap ends. One moment Trenkler- running on skates, but not skating-tears feverishly around the stage as if simultaneously fleeing a cop and pursuing a burglar. The next moment, he streaks straight toward the audience, stops dead on his heels at the very lip of the stage. If rivaled by such other ice-comedy classics as Frick & Frack and The Four Bruises, Trenkler's act outranks them in one respect-it is done solo...
Tiny, 31-year-old ice-blue-eyed Viennese Skater Trenkler learned to skate as a child on frozen snow. He learned to skate fast by hanging on to cars like other small boys all over the world and being chased by policemen. As a young man he had won a number of competitions when, one day in Budapest, he noticed that a guy who couldn't skate for beans, but was highly accomplished at pratfalls, kept the crowd in an uproar. Quickly deciding that slapstick paid off better than mere skill, Trenkler went out and bought a pair...
...Trenkler's greatest trick-his astounding "heel-stop"- was born of a bad moment. Whizzing across a Vienna lake, he suddenly saw a great gaping hole directly in front of him, frantically dragged his heels and lifted his toes, applied the brakes and was able to stop just in time. It is still a tough job: "I have to stop on a dime-and I don't mean a nickel." Three years ago, at the Center, he "missed the dime," pitched over the footlights, broke...
...Flotow 3. Selection, "II Trovatore," Verdi 4. Valse Lyrique, Emery 5. Overture, "Si j'etais Roi," Adam 6.Andacht for violin, Harp and Organ Johnson 7. Selection, "La Boheme," Puccini 8. Rid of the Valkyries, Wagner 9. Overture, "Orpheus," Offenbach 10. Melody, Rubinstein 11. Waltz, "Estudiantina," Waldteufel 12. Fest-March. Trenkler...