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Beautifully costumed, cleverly staged, its acts varied from acrobatics to ballet, from comic capers to spinning solos. It had no glittering star like Hollywood's Sonja Henie. But skating fans last week were ready to adopt new ice gods: Wisconsin's piquant Bess Ehrhardt and dashing Roy Shipstad (the "human top"); Adagio Specialists Idi Papez and Karl Zwack of Vienna (onetime European pair champions) ; Brooklyn-born Evelyn Chandler, who turns nine Arabian cartwheels without touching hands to ice; little Harris Legg, who takes a breath-taking leap over a lineup of eleven barrels and as a giant snowman...
When the Normandie safely slipped into her French Line pier in Manhattan this week, aboard (among other anxious travelers) were Sonja Henie, Mrs. William Randolph Hearst, Lee Shubert, Thomas J. Watson and a small gadget. Frivolous in its grim setting, it was nonetheless welcomed in Manhattan swankshops. It was a corset...
...great worry in Sonja Henie's life is that she will kill or maim herself at her very dangerous profession. To keep the ice clear of objects that might send her arsy-versy when she is traveling at 35 m.p.h., her troupe is forbidden to wear hairpins, the electrical superstructure over the rink is scrupulously vacuumed. Among Sonja's skating shoes, of white calf lined with chamois which cost her $45 a 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...
...second greatest worry in Sonja Henie's life, according to other people is her unmarried state. Her friends contend that her most publicized "romance," with Tyrone Power, was just that. Her less publicized friendship for Jeff Dickson* ended when she left Europe for the U. S. in 1936. She gave him back his jewelry. Her parents regarded with approval 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...
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...