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...years ago, he swashbuckled promisingly in Anthony Adverse but soon ran into an unpredictable snag: he began losing his British accent. Last year Producer Edward Small rescued him from the B's and supporting parts to skate in The Duke of West Point after the death of British Skater Jack Dunn, liked him well enough to entrust him with his crucial part in The Man in the Iron Mask...
...told Sonja Henie she could be another Garbo was an ebullient Irish-American, Dennis Russell Scanlan of St. Paul, who ran, and runs today, a prosperous surgical-instruments business in Sweden and Manhattan. In 1920 Scanlan had set Norway on its ear by staging an Oslo show for Chicago Skater Bobby McLean that grossed $76,000. The Henies and Mr. Scanlan saw something attractive in each other. In 1935 they put their heads together over Sonja. The Henie filmplaner were simple. Sonja was to go out in a blaze of amateur glory in the 1936 Olympics, then cash in before...
...pair, and her skates, which are made by John E. Strauss of St. Paul, Minn, (sometimes described as "the master skate man of the world"), for about $30, are several supposedly lucky pairs. Despite these precautions, she has taken falls which she believes would have killed a less experienced skater, got a brain concussion when she tripped over the edge of the rink making Happy Landing. The Henie legs, as shapely as they are useful, are insured against accident for the largest sum Lloyd's would underwrite, $5,000 a week...
...middle-aged Clifford Jeapes (pronounced Geeps), British cinemagnate who gave Sonja her first (unsuccessful) screen test. Romantic friends incline to the belief that the only man Sonja Henie has ever really been interested in was Jack Dunn, the handsome 19-year-old Cambridge undergraduate aviator who was her fellow-skater and constant companion on her 1936 tour, had a movie contract in his pocket when he was fatally stricken with tularemia last This year she took up with one Bob Shaw, a $50-a-week Fox stock boy (extra). To public curiosity about her private life, Sonja Henie is about...
Married. Jefferson Davis Dickson, 43, Natchez, Miss, farm boy who became Europe's No. 1 sports promoter, built, owns and operates the Palais des Sports in Paris; and Louise Wedell Mastbaum, 29, Philadelphia heiress; in Greenwich, Conn. For years Dickson was a devoted swain of Skater Sonja Henie...