New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-10-17
Charlotte of the Hip
Is No Charlotte Russ
On the Contrary This Fancest of Fancy Skaters Is
German to the Last Syllable-look to Ice
When She Was Eight Years Old.

second name. Of course, but It is not
Russ.
Reing German. Charlotte has taken
efficiency for her bvword. Although
only seventeen. she has slreROF car
/ ried the skating art n bit further than
any Fag.ishmau, Frenchman. Russian.
Belgian. Italian, Serbian, japanese or
Montenegrin has any been over
looked has ever thought - carrying
IL When she learned everything mat
the professors could teach her she
laugh, herself. And look a. the resu. I;
premiere ska-well, anyhow, chiei
skater AZ the New York Hippodrome at
salary that not even the press agent
can mention without removing MS nat
As Charlotte explained it 70 the IN
terpretor and the Interpreter inter-
preted II 70 the interviewer, she was
eight years old and In fair way 20
be a musical prodigy when physicians
discovered that she was delicate. ms
occurred I'm Berlin. whore Charlotte
has lived all Of her seventeen years eN-
cept the small fraction o. one that she
las snent in New YORK
To overcome her delicateness, or deli-
! cation, or whatever Il ought 20 DC
: called. the physicians ordered outdoor
exercise. Specifically, as you have al
ready guessed. they ordered skating
So Charlotte went out and STATED
eight years and all.
IL seems, according TO the inter
rreted story OF Charlotte, that she
ssated every dav from that time until
this. Whether the Kaiser used his in
fuence 10 provide cold weather right
through every summer or whether
there were indoor ice places where the
tcmperature was always of the freezing
,arietv-these things either Charlotte
did not say or the Interpreter failed
20 interp.
At any rate. Charlotte grew daily
stronger and stronger and finally
there came a dav when skating was no
longer a physical necessity But by
that time the habit had grown upon
her. and she Just couldn't quit. Also.
iv that time she had become one Of
the fanciest of the fancy-just fancy.
So q kind gentleman who ran the ice
palace offered Charlotte job-or per
haps one should say position where
the other sex is tned-and Char
lotte took il. All she had to do was
20 fancyskate all around the place and
amuse the tired German business men
and women. and for Charlotte the job
was apple pie.
Leaping ahead a few years. il was AT
the ice palace that the representative
of Charles Dillingham; found Charlotte
when he went scouting for Hippodrome
entertainers. Meanwhile the war had
started. and what II wasn't doing to
Charlotte's fathers furniture business
is practically not worth mentioning.
So Charlotte was quite willing to come
10 America at the aforementioned
gigantic salary. and so were mother
and father.
And they all came. as did twenty
seven others skaters from the same ice
palace. They are al good, those TWEEN
ty-seven skaters. bnt Charlotte is bet
ter. That is the reason that she Is
saved for the very end of the Hippo
drome show, Just when the audience is
led 10 think that it has had enough
ice skating. and then. with the entrance
Of Charlotte. relied TO think that il
has not had nearly enough.
As for the length of her stay In this
country. Charlotte has a ready an
swer.
"As long" she said. "as you In Amer
lea make ice and money"
So there is the story Of Charlotte
all except the onwritable part that
Charlotte carves in the Hippodrome
ice twice daily. And that you must
20 TO the Hippodrome to see.