When the movies came into U. S. life, band concerts, vaudeville, parlor games faded out. So did roller skating. But in the past few years, roller skating has come rumbling back again.
Last week skaters whirred around some 3,000 U. S. rinks, from Skowhegan to San Diego, from Atlanta to Seattle. The skaters in Detroit's Arena Gardens, largest of the city's four roller rinks, were especially gay. For they were celebrating the fifth anniversary of the Arena Gardens Roller Skating Club (membership 5,000) and honoring portly, fiftyish Fred Martin, the man mainly responsible for...
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