Picture Play Magazine (1938)

78 ,, Sh ( ontinued from page 16 But in Oslo there is a tall young Norwegian of good lamilv who has been Sonja's close friend since she wore yellow curls long enough to sit on. The two have corresponded for years, and when she returned home the) eagerlj renewed their friendship. Together they played tennis and shot grouse and drove over the blue hills of their beautiful country; they entertained their old gang at a dinner party, and afterward played Bingo with the sel Sonja had brought from America. \T0l many of Hollywood's glamour girls, accustomed to the Coconut Grove and the Trocadero, would get a thrill out of going back to Cedar Junction and dancing to victrola music at the Grange Hall on Saturday nights with the same un-glamorous kid they'd e Loves Him, She Loves Him Not "And oh, they told me I hadn't changed a hit!" she exclaimed proudly. "That was the nicest of all. I do so dislike people who change just because the} become actors or actresses." Outside of Tyrone, Sonja states that one of her best friends in Hollywood is Don Ameche. "He is so full of jokes." she says, "and he has been so kind to my mother and me." In fact, Mr. and Mrs. Ameche have a standing invitation to call on Sonja to be their baby-watcher any time they want to go out on the nurse's night off. Dotted all over the globe are the petite Henie's admirers of whom she has made such steadfast friends. In Berlin there is Gus Jaenecke, a wellknown football player and one of her favorites from her early Olympic days. In Paris, when she eroes there to (■■•NUpWH* Nelson Eddy, a football-playing cadet in "Rosalie," learned the game under expert instruction. To look at him in action you would never think him a singer with a sensitive throat. shop, she is apt to do the town with Jeff Dickson, manager of the Palais de Sports which corresponds to our Madison Square Garden in New York. In Vienna there is Carl Sheaffer. champion male ice skater. In Manhattan there is a modest young correspondent for a foreign newspaper whose friend she has been for ten years. It was this young man who explained to me, "The nice thing about Sonja is that she treats everybody the same. I've been out with her and Tyrone and a party of others and she always pays as much attention to every one in the group as she does to Tv or whomever she's escorted by." "That is the way that I have been brought up." Sonja explained when I repeated this to her. "Over here you often see a couple out somewhere with a party of friends and they stav to themselves, they dance and talk only with each other. I have always been taught that a girl must be equally nice to every one when she is with a group of people. "Tyrone," she went on, "understands all these things. He is my closest friend and I am very fond of him. We like to go out and v\e like to stav home and talk, and sometimes mother talks with us. Why is it that people are always trying to marry us off just because of that? We both want careers and we need to be free to work hard, so we don't even think of love, we never consider marriage in any way. I have my friends and he has his and we still have each other's companionship, and it is very nice that way. "Sometimes people sav to me 'Sonja. you are twenty-four, and if you don't make up your mind to marry soon you may never do it.' Then I always remember what my father said to me when I was just seven and he was leaching me to go off a high ski jump and I was frightened. He said, 'Kjaerven. don't be afraid; each thing happens the way it is supposed to happen.' So I went off and I wasn't afraid any more. 1 say to these people who a-k me about marriage. "It will happen as it should." "I have always said what I would do and I have done it. \t fourteen I said. 'I will win ten championships and then I will make pictures." I did that. \ow I say, "1 will have a careei for four more years and then I will think of man iage. "Tell me," said Sonja. her brown eyes very serious, "do you know the-c people who make up the gossip in the newspapers? Are the) your friends? Can v ou -top them?" \olh>dv can slop them, but at least the truth can be passed along: that Sonja Henie says -he i entirely fancyfree and liav ins a grand time thai wa\ .