The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Oct. 21, 1940

It Happens on Ice—A Musical Icetravaganza (music by Vernon Duke & others, lyrics by Al Stillman; produced by Sonja Henie & Arthur Wirtz) is a vast and chilly vaudeville which slides across 50 tons of ice covering the enlarged stage of the Rockefellers' Center Theatre. Before and behind a curtain composed of 315,720,000 fibres of shimmering glass, a large company of skaters perform a series of fleet and charming ballets interrupted by specialty turns and, not often enough for many spectators, Joe Cook. Steel runners on ice add many mobile possibilities to the...

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