MORITZ SKATERS

Southland Times, Issue 22758, 7 December 1935, Page 9

MORITZ SKATERS

AT THE SOUTHLAND SHOW. Monsieur Corthesy, who is to appear at the Southland Show with his partner, Miss Vera Paravicini, realizes that skating is one of the really dangerous and exciting things left in life. The St. Moritz skaters are a great asset to these days of the skating revival now evidenced in all parts of the world. It took Monsieur Corthesy six years to train the present act, and 39 girls were coached for it until Miss Vera Paravicini succeeded in giving the slow motion, the perfect poise, balance, and the control of the body in rhythmic movement, giving a beautiful contour of sculpture with all its virility and all the beauty of colour that is in a painting, which has all the delight of graceful movement that is in the ballet, giving a vivid imagination of their art. The St. Moritz Skaters have appeared with their present act before their Majesties the King and Queen of England, also the Prince of Wales. They whirl round at a mad speed on a raised platform only 12 feet square, the edge of which spells death. Monsieur Corthesy has taught skating to such famous people as King Boris of Bulgaria, King Alexander of Serbia, the late King Albert of Belgium, Charles Chaplin and Mary Pickford. The St. Moritz Skaters show to a set timetable—on the hour and half-houi all day and the same at night.