Hollywood (1938)

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And more than all this, she'd more than likely blister her little heels. Her mother was pretty gloomy about the whole practice session that morning, but as it turned out she shouldn't have been because during the 120 minutes we watched, Irene, clad in woolen ski pants, white sweater, and a kerchief around her head, performed like an old-timer. All the difficult steps of an ice-skater's routine were repeated over and over again without a mis-step. She did topple over while finishing up a salute but that didn't count because she was up on her feet so fast we thought it was part of the routine. And once during the last ten feet of a Charlotte Stop she almost had her pretty little nose rubbing a mark on the ice, but that didn't count, either, because the ice was soft, the skates were new, and other members of the ballet came swooping past her just close enough to cause her to look up at the wrong time. Now it seemed to us that two hours of steady practice was more than enough for a five -year -old girl, but apparently not for Irene. When her mother looked at her watch and shcuted "Time's up!" Irene came skating over and registered a very decided complaint. "I'm just beginning to have fun," she said, "and here I have to quit." Marny George, a Seattle professional girl skater, and Walter Ridge, a Los Angeles figure skater, who had been out on the ice teaching her the Breaking the Ice ballet steps came up, sided in with Irene who finally won another fifteen minutes of practice that certainly was worth paying good meney to see. Irene is the youngest figure skater in the world, a fact that may or may not interest you. But perhaps this will. This little bundle of dimples, curls, dark eyes, and flashing blades put on her first pair of skates only a year and a half ago! Since then she's been in more than sixteen big ice shows and a decided hit in every one of them. As a matter of record, she took part in her first show before she'd been skating two months! And if you don't think that's an ice-skating achievement ask your nearest professional figure skater! "Irene," so her mother told us, "so far as we knew, never showed any inclination to skate. Most of her spare time had been devoted to her lessons in acrobatic dancing of which she was very fond. Then along came Orin Markus, the famous figure-skating teacher of St. Paul, who suggested, after watching her dance, that he be allowed to teach her to skate. Orin happens to be a friend of the family and when he went on tc say that he thought our daughter would develop into a future champion we just thought he was trying to be pleasant. But finally we agreed to get her a pair of skates and let him see what he could do with her. And here she is, in Hollywood, in pictures — all within one and one half years of skating! It certainly seems like a dream." Markus didn't teach Irene how to skate the first time he put on her skates for her. That first lesson, which lasted less than half an hour, was devoted to just one thing — learning how to fall! Learn that, Markus told Irene, and then, when the actual spills came during the practice of a difficult routine, there'd be no sprained wrists, ankles, and strained and sore backs. So Irene went to it, took her initial bumps and booms according to her teacher's expert directions, and got onto them so quickly that the second lesson was a thrilling excursion into the highly specialized art of cutting rhythmic halfcircles and figure-eights. Of course she's taken her share of falls since then, but she's learned how to take them and there's been no more than a mere "ouch"! of complaint registered whenever she's found herself playing the part of an animated broom trying to sweep up a couple of acres of ice. ■ Irene is not only the youngest figure skater in the world but she's the youngest professional skater on record. Her mother explained that, too. "When Mr. Lesser offered us a contract for my daughter's services in Breaking the Ice, both my husband and myself went into a family huddle before signing. We both realized it was a golden opportunity for us to build up a financial backlog for Irene's future. In case anything should happen to us we wanted her to be protected. My husband, being a newspaperman, has seen life passed in review across his desk and he looks into the future with a very practical pair of eyes. Being a newspaperman doesn't offer a very quick chance to lay aside a nest-egg. And here was one — a motion picture contract which, if fulfilled, would release us from one great financial worry. But still we didn't sign. There was this side of the story that needed study. We wanted Irene to have her chance at becoming a champion. You know — proud and doting parents. Orin Markus had told us many, many times that in all of his long professional career, both here and abroad, he'd never come across such a likely prospect and we hated to deny her her chance when it came. Signing a contract would bar her forever, we thought, from ever attaining a championship in the amateur field. There was the Olympics to think of. Some day she might become an Olympic champion. Well, as I said a moment ago, you know how proud and doting parents sometimes are. It was Mr. Lesser who finally solved our problem by obtaining rulings from the National Amateur Ioe Skating Association. He learned that cur daughter, if she turned professional, now, could, after a lapse of two years, be reinstated to her amateur ranking. Irene, he told us, was too young to bother her curly head with thoughts of Olympic medals. That could come ten years from MOTION PICTURES ARE YOUR BEST ENTERTAINMENT