£175,000 A YEAR
SONJA HENIE’S EARNINGS SKATING STAR’S LUXURY CRUISE Sonja Henie earned £175,000 last year—about £3650 a week. Her income was 17 times that of Mr Chamberlain, who receives £IO,OOO a year, and two and a-haFf times that of Greta Garbo. Sonja is now cruising in the liner Normandie. The skating star and her party are occupying a suite costing £ISOO. With her are her mother and brother and two servants. When the 24 days’ cruise to South America and the West Indies is over she will have spent £33oo—not including her special entertaining bill aboard. At 26 "the Pavlova of the ice" recently toured the United States and netted £BO,OOO. When she skates she wears silk tights that cost £7 a pair—and she changes five times a day. Sonja began to skate when she was eight: in 1936 she became Olympic champion. A year later she took Hollywood by storm, and without previous film training starred in two pictures that earned £1,000,000.
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Waikato Times, Volume 124, Issue 20786, 22 April 1939, Page 17 (Supplement)
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