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-(London Express Servico)

non-stop Sonja starts her first holiday for 17 years

SONJA HENIE with lawper

STOCKHOLM.

T 41 Sonja Henie at Inst Reems to be wilting The sign: she is taking a holi-

She is going to the Riviera for three weeks. It is her first holiday since she turn- ed professional in 1936.

Two months' record- breaking at the box office has tired her out.

I have been on and off

her fabulous with

revue since it opened in her na tive Oslo on August 19 and came on to Stockholm.

A smile

hides such a

rich frown

SHE'S FABULOUS, SHE'S

41, AND HER SECRET

-IS: SUCCESS BY STRAIN

no show.

In

for

The Sonja you know

of a century ago, as

she still

ACUMEN. in BUSINESS Yet she is not loved

her £125,000 Norway. She became an Oslo she risked American citizen. She is costumes outdoors for the first time. One shower would have considered high-hat. Nor- ruined them. So she proposed a to the tax-Ratherers - wegians are jealous of her deal

£5,000 entertainment tax auccess.

the run, wet or fific. Show or scents in action before her How is it maintained at How can she her age? make five all-out appear And that is why I now ances each night (some present the Most Fantastic times twice nightly), total- Show Woman in the World ling a whole hour, with the -Miss Sonja Henie-the rumba, hula-hula, dizzy only lasting name on ico spins, and acrobatic jumps there has ever been, or thrown in? probably will ever be.

I make no apology, al- though you may hate ice shows and the name Sonja Hente may bore, you to death.

One Party

SPIRIT.

011

JOURNEY TO THE TOP OF THE WORLD

H

By Peter Lovegrove

UNDREDS of thou- pitched at 18,000 feet for aands of words have higher already than the highest

mountain in Europe..!. been written, and as,

There, the serious climbing many uttered, about the out- started. First, up a 20,000-fi. standing achievement of co-fall-a stoop, frozen cataract 1958-the first successful like a labyrinth, with ho

In of useent

the 20,002-ft. treacherous ice a constant Mount Everest last May by chasms forming all the time

state of movement and new Colonel Sir John Hunt's ex- then into the Western Cwm, u pedition. But none, however stronge. hidden ice covered eloquent, can bring home the valley, enclosed on three

side: extent of the achievement.. by great, forbidding peaks, into the difficulties and perils The secres

311⁄2 tons of stores

of the CX- that were overcome, the peditian's passage through the rigours entalled, and the ice-fall would alone make this wild, rugged beauty of the im memorable, with fulls of area as the magnificent avalanches, the laboricus cutting colour film of the enterprise of steps, the morking of the 'route with flags and repes, and which has just had its premiere in London.

Film records of grent

were

the shoto of the - Jaden

Party slowly

corner with a nbyss just beyond.

more precipitous glacier.

adventures do, not", acces» - The Lhotse Glacier, another.

50

sarily make great adven- even

had to be climbed by the ture alms, bul "The ad

nscault and s support parties in Conquest of Everest" is a rarefied air and temperatures happy and notable exception. which never rise chove

point: it It Was photographed by degrees below freezing Tom Stobart, the 35-year was so difficult that if took the old official cameraman of the expedition 12 days to accomplish it hel establish themselves expedition, an expert moun- with 500 lbs of supplies on

thu taineer himself who had South Col at 20,000 feet, where already climbed in the Alps, 100 miles per hour gales blew and thinking the Carpathians and the and movements

tremendously

slowed were Himalayas, and been on the down. Sir John Hunt has de- Anglo-Scandinavian expedi- clared that it took them 11⁄2 tion of 1949-52 to the hours to put two lightweight normally would Antarctic. He took his heavy, tents which

take only a minute, while the cameras up to some 21,000 effort of putting on a pair of feet and with telephoto climbing boots sometimes took a lenses was able to film 5,000 whole hour. feet above him. Other light- weight cameras were taken and used "by New Zealand Achoolmaster George Lowe to within three thousand feet of the summit.

More Camps

Still more camps were set up at 27.350ft on a bleak and desolate spot resembling a lunor landscape, and at 27,900 feet, the latter being a mere platform one yard wide and 3.ft. long on which 'Hillary and Tensing spent The film was cut and put an uncomfortable night before their successful final assault ap into shape in England-only a saw-edged binde-like ridge to about one-fifth of the avail- reach

No Faking

able material being used May 2he top of the world on I was out of the question for and a commentury written alm cameras to be carried on by poet Louis McNeice and the two assaults Evans and spoken by Meredith Bourdillon had previously made Edwards as well as sound a reconnaissance which look

them to

within 500 feet of the and musical effects were summit and they are left to the added, while the voices of imagination af

af..the spectator Hunt, Hillary and The with aerial pletures of the

Indlan

screen

success was

Times correspondent are mountain taken by the also heard. One of the film's Air Force 'flling the particular virtues is that while Hillary's voice describes the Anal act of the drama, but from start to finish not a

we see both parties setting. off

returning. single scene has been faked, and

Evans and yet it is more vivid and Bourdillon very tired, Hillary vastly more exciting than and Tensing quietly triumphant the ambitious on reaching the South Col and that she is s the "pretty many of

The film demonstrates very Hittle ice princess" of a quarter studio-planned "epics" that the main body of the party.

that emphatically I can recall.

It opens in the panelled rooms only achieved through melich- the Royal Geographical lous and thorough preparation.

and teamwork. Society in London, where the

The ascent on Everest was expedition was planned, depicts

the lines of u the preparations at home and organised on the scientine research the ex- major military operation, with parallel problems of supply and periments in wind-tunnels on Par

nd into it went not strategy, and tents and clothing, the test of only the work of the best brains boots and compressed foods, on respiration and oxygen cylinders of British industry in devising and masks then swings abrupt equipment, but also the valuable ly to Nepal, cut eff from ine experience gained in the

especially rest of the world by a chain of previous expeditions,

the work of the Shipton recon- mountains.

Ranco párty of 1951 and the Jessons the Swiss climbers a Colonel Hunt said, year ago.

for the before leaving

great into adventure: "Let it be clearly Nepal: the climbers had understood that he who first attains the summit of Everest a ligh ridge while supplies atta

will also stond as it were at the were brought in by a remark- apex of this pyramid of hard- abic system of connected rope won experience; the triumph

the capital,

:

been

Sherpa Tensing

There

fre

18

public today.

ΟΣ . cancelled

FASHION FLAIR. On and Only one show was because of rain and she saved off the lee her expensive taste

seldom verges

vulgarity. more than £40,000 in tax.

LUCK. Norwegians talk about Jewellery is her weakness. Co- "Sonja weather." Almost every skaters say "Sonja doesn't only of the 32 Oslo days was wet play her fee show, she weaTS or overcast, One night the rain." They call her enormous stopped as the golden curtains diamond ring the rock pile." went up and restarted as they

JOY OF LIVING. Perhaps These are some of the in came down.

the analysis of by gredients of success strain But Sonja has bad luck too. that sums up after the age of 40;—

In Baltimore the stands coi- "the Iron Woman." Applause, who money, champagne, duncing. FIRST stimulants, Cham lapsed, Injuring hundreds

luxury and love-Senja revels oxygen, are suing her for millions.

in them all, pagne, raw eggs, and Injections to denden the pain when she strains 11 muscle.

She has married twice, and out Regular face and body massage.

Rather since August has FIGHTING TRAINING. She never han pay preposterous claims, steadily with her childhood. handsome Kjell takes it easy and always Sonja has risked unpopularity sweetheart,

sardine Norwegian gives her best.

fighting each case right up Holm, She by

Court

if king. warms up for half an the Supreme -

Lo hour and usually warms necessary.

THE FAMILY. No analysis we meet the TIIRIFT. down by ballroom dan-

In the nearly two

complete without

Tenaing smiling has given mentioning that strictly limited "loured with her she will skate anywhere in only one party for the cast. It liability company, The Henies

most of Incorporated. including Moscow lasted half an

Sonja which ice conditions aro

In her spent palatial upstairs drawing-rooms, CONFIDENCE. This with white calf- Yet she is as nimble as comes of being 25 years on top. skin upholstery, when she Arst appeared in Her amateur record will never while she drank the Olymple Winter Games equalled. She invented Ice champagne with

ballet and made it

"How in the world does she still do it at all at the age of 41?" I have kept asking myself. I am only three

Sonja, older than and used to run over

by

RALPH

SHEWINS

Д

cing late into the night. years the present company has would be

ten 8ft. Gin. hurdles; but a the world fraction of the physical where the

makes effort she night would kill me.

£6

won

Success Road

good.

every

SGLF

the

ENTHUSIASM,

hour,

march

Ora

roads

miles

ever

ways. At Kat erienced, ever- wil be shared by all who have

and the

helped to build it," and the Dim rightly pays die erect to the

porters, those tough, intet men who tried and failed over

Beyond Praise

and brave hi friendly

tribe the past 30 years. men who carry, loads of 60 lbs Papa. Hente up the steepest climbs with. deliberately cheerfulness and

courage, and trained her for the party then moves 175 miles

All Sir Jolin's party, whether through laurel amateur

over foothills

and

or British

showed Sherpa, filled with narrow gorges wreaths and

A stamina and determination be professional scarlet rhododendrons ilmelight. He it beautiful magnolia trees past the yend praica, but it was their was who first Buddhist monastery of Thyang well-knit teamwork, in monoged business.

her boche with lis holy bells to the Since foot of the Khumbu giseler, his death it is where tho base cainp

brother Loil,

who encouraged

her to skate

child.

起步

Momma Henie

has never miss.

r

ed, one of her Perform

Always ances, sho back- stage, check-

gold mine personal friends. nt the age of 12 at in defiance of Hollywood.

"rift - raft" The Chamonix in 1924. Sinee

had weak cock- 'When the Canadian "Sugat talla and sand- 1928, when she

Barbara Plum Fairy,"

Ann wiches. first of her three Olympic Scott, who is half Sonja's age, SHOW MAN- titles, she has never flopped opened a rival ice show, the SHIP. She does an amateur or profca- "Oriental Queen" took the hall not court pri- vale popularity, sional.

next door.

but she is the show EGOTISM. In her Oslo pro- eternal

SONJA on foe, gramme there aro 28 photo- woman. You graphs of Misa Henle, including can almost feel and this is how it all began,

drag- She has never fallen

or a full page of her amateur hor

of ging the last round of applause Ing the hairdressor and oxygen missed a performance and trophies, and only 13 insets

from the gods. While she still apparatus, listening for disloyal ticket for has

draws become the richest her 100 strong company.

a single cheer she will gosalp, watching LANDLORD & TENANT (AMDT.) artist in Hollywood. How is She is clever enough not to never give up. "She'll dio on fiddling, fending off unwanted

the cast say.

admirers, and later in the evelis it done? ONL

overload the show with herself, skates," th

altung-in on parties. These figures should but no other star gets real. PHOTOGENICS. She fixes on.

have not make you think. In 33 per- look-in. Britain's blonds Joyce that rubber smile as she comes, If the Honjes

non- through the dressing-room door managed to buy happiness, they formances 82 days in Oslo Lockwood gets the only (population 418,000) she Sonja female solo and comes on, as Armly as she fixes on the have certainly worked for it. Is played to 860,000 people In a hideous blue and crimson oxygen mask inside. She knows it. worth while? I doubt it...

I can well understand why and took £170,000 (- dress, immediately after Queen her angles and is seldom, caught.

„nappingų.

· Britain's Olymple figure skating cluding programme sales). Hento in all her glory.

Bho has hundreds of flattering chempion, Miss. --Jeannette No artist anywhere has Foreign language Press criti- shots in reply to every time the Altwegen O.B.E. preferred over reached such a satura-, elsms pro toned down in trans- camera" does? Its worst. “She-nursing, children.../to:) £2,500 tion point.

Tatlon to suit her.

may well believe in private, weak as an Ice Queene

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71a new partner 1”.

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which

euch had his vital part to play and undertook it quite selflessly which helped to solve the long- standing challenge of Everest..

Calour,adds notably to the success of the film, but with the pictures having a grandeur and a poetry all their own, the music tends to be too blatant at times and the commentary a little

too precious. There is, perhaps, too much striving for

phrase, markedly with the matter-of-fact descriptions of the actual climbers, and too few details of the very real problems set on the final assaults, such as the delays owing to the weather, the race against time, and the

dimculties.

contrastering

охудет

which

Also, it seems a pity that nono of the "still" photographs taken on the top of Everest, has been Included. The producers: o viously considered that these might have broken, the dramatic form and movement of the film record, but. In view of the world-wide distribution of the Alm it was a risk worth taking.

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