SONYA HENIE'S NEXT

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 2, 25 September 1937, Page 10

SONYA HENIE'S NEXT

Sonja Henie, ivorld's skating champion, is going back to Hoilywood this nionth to.make a pieture in which she will dance Pavlova's "Dying Swan'5 on skates. She should ha.ve done so in "Lovely to Look At," but it is uow reserved for another pieture, because Sonja has become a fully fledged star as well as a skater. Hoilywood wanted a skater when they sent for her, but Sonja meant to cut a better ligure. A skater on the films has limitations, but a ".star" who can also skate is a d'ilferent ^matter. Sonja has been skating since she was seven, learning to "put herself across" sin'ce she was ten, and at twenty-four she is really cfficient. She has personality all nght. Tho fact tlii(t Ilpllyw'ood ch'anged the titie of "Lqvely to Hook At" frojn "Thin Ice;' might amount to an admission that Sonja is riglit, and ive sliall sco licr in anyUting but ico. Talking oi' ice, the subjoct of lier romaneo • "with Tyroiie Pow-er was apparentJy too thin for anyono to craek! Sonja toi Is us that sho workn eighteen hours a day at Ihe studio, and has to keep up her skating practice and nieet her ■publie, so she's rcally looking for ward to a llirce weeks' fishing holi-, day at hor home in Eorway,