Variety (January 1953)

ttfcdneeday, January 1953 Forty-seventh P^fiS&IJSfY Anniversary m '53 ‘ICE CM®® ! New York Critics' Rave n ot)&See( Button Make stag* Other.TrtUsts, Short ^Brigadoo^ Are Featum ' TT -Wnn-ls’ elaborate Tce| *- MS3, n ,pecUcle> “^l,Vstart.^P^ y Square Garden. WSninlor it Lest thqJ Notices Mark Start of ICE CAPADES OF 1953 on its Most Successful .The ^—- \v thrUltn 'eshovr I Lest tnq .impression "be gsszs&fyi toj»4«.w.'vs"a agpe^.-- , • ^ a ^™usl/sp»sW-thCP g V^rolort t»rrowed trt, The- Costumes *re ram^ow. ^he-c I ’(c^Capades Has ft ne Skaters and Lavish Costumes By DOWLAS ATT J ICQ »» VTT SEPTEMBi!^LJ5i_iS^tL . menfo/eCe“d*^3£ requirement ot J> P . Livingston, sort is P. rett, ? e "n'the clothes worn, who designed eld the -uot has fulfilled this jw and m The costumes ore b a seemed &ms& -tr 'nEW'TO^ITWORLD^ TELEGRAM AND ^ Its ‘Brigadoon Is H«.gW' n 9 By 11D WALLACE, "staff Writer. At the risk of appearing ?£e i would like to say that e ‘ice show. I saw last year Is ) lohseT the best Ice show I •'iefcapaucs -ot 1953” is the last 'rtf* nt d °Mfd-^on ectWe “hreu^t^n onlV ,e described in sighs, caresse . ,queals and whoops. reaver To begin with there has nev 3 een a show with V^eDick dance o< talen. ff ^en- itton and there hasntheen ivthing like Button since tne xth cooled off enough for.we.ttr, freeze He is the only man ■er to win all'the amateur figure ating titles, but I will not dis- the matetr further. Arperson in get'a nasty fall lust reading houf the things Button does on kates. Other Champs. Among the other world and na- innai aml&feur champions wnc fumed proffsslonat this year * ioin ,f Ice Capades’* are Jacquellm du Bief. Sonya (Klopfer) Kay« and Ginny Baxter. “Ice Capades” is lavish ah ight and for the first time 1 ie memory of this man *■ iow may be seen in the gard here none of the performers ai eld hack. In most showsit is e ■onhound rule that nobody e allowed to skate numbers mo pectacular than those of tars. Nobody can skate beu han'Button, but all are at J >rty to try. > Frozen *Brlgadoon. What I enjoyed most was iced-up version of x the mus * 3rigadoon” which must have c > much ars a federal courthoi .# nd what I liked most ab K, Brigadoon” was 17 -year-old & a Klopfer. a Brooklyn-born # ,’ho has half-way changed tame to Sonya Kaye because; las a smoother fehde. For last' five years Sonya has t ny team, just like* other P* Radio, Newspapers Television Hurl Plaudits of Greatest johh "• harru ^ stow oi W' 005 ' ■>, uotoiAswm saffs^r ^ P ^ G ££ weeis ce Capades Dicfc tl Udlth < ~ r ' st Olympic SgmL J?* wor W an, ^1° Profits* .^rnp lo l V* V%*! ■ • kl •*$? £ with These Great Stars JACQUELINE DU BIEF World's Champion from Paris SONYA (KLOPFER) KAYE North American Champion from New York City OINNY BAXTER Olympic Free Skating Titleisf ★ BOBBY SPECBT U.S. National Champion AND All THESE STARS IVU p wfc*A M -nrV^oic^'with th« X» • JACKSON A1YNAM • AlAN KONRAO w r the DodM«* • THE OLD SMOOTHIES • KU»T AND OOMY MAXSON Nothing Lesi TMn auptrh.« THE MAXWELLS • POBOIE « LARSON Next year. I’di say, wait i # paUL CASTLI # FILLER A. CURTIN iext year. Then this A CHARLES SLAGLE • HELEN DAVIDSON thamplon 195^^ ‘he on ice thal asimpace d , ^TftssaSs the twenfv , ^ the audfAM^ ^ e m> P«torS;i w e- ye sr-old b «t. the sti. I ed itaself tL^awatdi haDle ^Wded X“ 8 *t«f of I ifc othe fe^ w °Xr Suf re <l queen''™ 01 '- 8?5S , S?^aus# Of Det r 5?\?ad GhnS "" the sfafr,. *L leadhi» iw^asaf ^Vei tb. OJJ. 'e Ca ^</e* 4 W 79 ^ StoZf’Mt iZ> h W £*%*■* \ ° r ^e>re<, ^ .\.<w ^ 'Sjth. CURTIN CHARLES SIAOLI • HELEN DAVIDSON TRIXIE • «K» IARUI • RAllET Of ONI HUNDRED Feafuring LERNER A LOEWE'S Smash Musical “BRIGADOON” 'A* just on# of IQ Production Numbers _OA A ^h«e *“*&> . ?Sfe 9 fsae