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STILT WALKER Tn 1904, Archibald Alexander Leach—now known * to filmgoers as Cary Grant—made his arrival in Bristol on a cold January day. His father was a clothing manufacturer, but Archibald must have in- herited the taste and temperament of his grandfather, a successful stage actor, for he was only twelve when he ran away and joined an acrobatic troupe, where he learned stilt walking, among other things. A month later his father took him back to school, but at fifteen, Archie ran away again with the same troupe and this time his father did not interfere. After various ups and downs, during which his stilt-walking prowess came in useful as a supplementary means of earning money when the stage failed, he went to Hollywood, making his debut in 1933 in “ This is the Night " He speedily became one of the most popular leading men of the screen —but looking ahead, he saw that too many leading men faded into oblivion through playing stereotyped roles in too many films. He decided it should not be his fate. So he free-lanced. And, because he's a good actor, he has the pick of good roles. Lately in “ Suspicion ” and “ Arsenic and Old Lace.” A DANCER ON SKATES js^ONJA Henie was seven years old when she had her first pair of skates—a Christmas present from her father, William Henie, a well- to-do fur merchant. A year later she had won her first skating prize—in the annual skating competition on the frozen Christiana Fjord open to the junior girls of Oslo. It was the beginning of Sonja’s brilliant career. The following year she entered the senior women’s competition— and again won first prize. A year later she won the Norwegian championship for fancy skating. At eleven she became the world’s figure-skating champion. When she was eighteen she came to London to study ballet dancing under the great Karsavina, and for the first time the famous Dying Swan dance was given new beauty and rhythm as Sonja translated it from ballet slippers to silver skates. i„ She was twenty-three, thrice Olympic champion, seven times winner of the European championships and ten times winner of the world's championship, when she turned pro- fessional, and in 1938 she signed her first film contract, making her debut in “ One in a Million.” Recently she was in “ Sun Valley Serenade ” 112