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...your issue of Jan. 27 you state that Max Peter Haas caught the first picture of Sonja Henie doing a fall on ice on Jan. 17, 1940. You also include a cut of the photograph. This statement is incorrect...
...last week's tournament was some thing of a milestone in U. S. figure skating. Among this year's contestants there were none who could hold a candle to Sonja Henie (ten times world's champion), Karl Schäfer (seven times world's champion), nor even Megan Taylor (current world's champion). But in the novice class was a perky 13-year-old, Anne Robinson, a collateral descendant of Jackson Haines. Little Anne has been skating only three years, but she won the Eastern championship four weeks ago. Last week, in her first national...
...Sonja Henie's Hollywood Ice Revue, her fourth annual touring ice carnival last week left Manhattan and set out on the road again. Containing no such lustrous ballets as It Happens on Ice (produced by Henie and still in Manhattan), no such galaxy of specialists as the touring Ice Follies of 1941, it depends heavily on Henie herself. Henie still is unmatched as a blonde, chubby-cheeked pocket-edition text on figure skating, with a dainty, smiling, little-girl appeal...
Haas uses only one camera, a Leica, always has it with him. His gun-battle pictures last week climaxed a year of lucky breaks. On Jan. 17, 1940, at Madison Square Garden, Haas caught the first picture of Sonja Henie doing a fall on ice. Three weeks later he was strolling down the street after breakfast, Leica in hand, when Furman Richard Jaeckel fell from a window overhead, landed on a canopy. Max Haas got that one too. He has twice won Leica awards for his pictures-once (in 1936) for a shot of German Fighter Max Schmeling looking...
...Follies of 1941 has no such lovely ballet formations as Sonja Henie's show It Happens on Ice (TIME, Oct. 21), but the Follies' specialists are unsurpassable. Auburn-haired Evelyn Chandler does seemingly impossible cart wheels; Harris...