QUEEN OF THE ICE
“ALICE IN WONDERLAND” BALLET.
In their search for a colourful ballet: to climax the skating number in “My Lucky Star,” which will be shown at. the State Theatre tomorrow', Sonja Henie and her dance director, Harry Losee, turned happily to one of the most, beloved story-book classics of ali time —Lewis Carroll’s “Alice in Wonderland.” All of Carroll’s fantastic creatures have come to life —and all on skates. Sonja skims across the ice in the company of Tweedledee and Tweedledum (appropriately played by Jack and Bob Heasley who are identical twins) and the Walrus and the Carpenter. The philosophic caterpillar descends from his toadstool to join the dance, together with the King and Queen and Knave of Hearts; there are the Griffin and the Dodo, the Mock Turtle and the Dormouse, as well as the Ugly Duchess, the Cheshire Cat, the Mad Hatter, the White Rabbit, the Red and Black court attendants. The ballet is worked into the story of “My Lucky Star” as part of a gigantic ice carnival which Sonja stages for a big department store.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 9 February 1939, Page 4
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182QUEEN OF THE ICE Wairarapa Times-Age, 9 February 1939, Page 4
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