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...that was chopped up so fine it looked like corn snow. The fish dealer's iceman showed him his ice-grinding machine. Walter Brown ordered bigger copies that would grind ice smaller. Last week it took 500 tons of ice fed through grinders to keep the floor and ski slide snowy. During performances of the show, spectators were spellbound when workmen fed one of the machines 50-lb. chunks of ice, which it chewed into flakes, spewed out of a six-inch hose, as glittering, precious Snow...
...Brown snow machine made the wintersports show possible, Hannes Schneider was what made it profitable. To him, as head of the famed Arlberg Skiing School, more than to any other single person in the world, is attributable skiing's current world-wide boom. In Stuben, Austria, near the Tyrolean border, Hannes Schneider grew up when Alpine skiing, imported from Norway where it had become a major sport 20 years before, was in its infancy. Norwegian skiers skied standing up straight. After he had learned to ski on barrel staves, used them to win a race for which the prize...
...recognized as the best Ski-meister in the Alps, Hannes Schneider was hired as leading man in the German Film The Wonders of Skiing. The picture popularized skiing in Central Europe, made Hannes Schneider grand wizard of all Europe's ski wizards. Back in St. Anton, he opened his Arlberg school. First month he had 100 pupils. The next month he had 200. The St. Anton natives he had taught free were useful to Skimeister Schneider. He hired them as associate professors. By 1925, Hannes Schneider's Arlberg Ski School was winter headquarters for most of Europe...
...Schneider ski school, Skimeister Schneider has had as many as 3,000 pupils a year, 400 a day. The school has 25 assistant teachers. Fee for pupils is $5 a week, for four hours a day six days a week. The pupils live in hotels, assemble on a level field each morning, pass examinations in stemming and turning to pass from one class to the next. Having put St. Anton and Arlberg on the map, Hannes Schneider, son of a goat-herder, owns the biggest house in the village (13 rooms, two baths), which he built largely with...
...Madison Square Garden last week Hannes Schneider, now iron-haired and limping from a hip broken while skiing ten years ago, had to do no more than stand still while his skis carried him down the slide once or twice to fulfill his function as main attraction of the show whose clientele was made up mostly of skiing sophisticates. Indirect effect of Herr Schneider's three-week stay in the U. S., before going back to St. Anton for the start of the semester, was to aggravate New York's skiing neurosis to the point of mania. Owner...