Evening star., 1940-01-07

to Of the joints where had to skate while
on the way up.
We means Evelyn and her pair partner and manager,
Bruce Mapes who also her husband They have skated
together since they youngsters and together have
ridden the crest of the of figure skating popularity
top billing. They met the rink in Brooklyn and
married when Evelyn graduated from high school, Bruce
studying architecture Pratt Institute the time
and conducting dance orchestra at night to pay his
penses When their first baby, Bruce, J. born the
young husband still senior at Pratt and there wasn't
much time money for skating But the rink manager
gave Bruce and Evelyn passes in return for few
exhibitions; and Evelyn kept plugging away She would
wheel the baby to the rink and check him with the cashier
while she practiced those figures.
year later when the second child Chandler born
Evelyn the ice again within three weeks Soon she
decided that she ready for another shot at the national
amateur junior title.
As it turned out, she wasn't quite ready She finished
second - still weak in the fundamental figures For year
she got up every morning six O'Clock and practced before
it time for getting breakfast and doing the housework
And in 1925 at the New York Ice Club she finally that
coveted junior title.
Evelyn knew that if she to 60 to win the
difficult senior title would take years of lessons
eight ten dollars hour With two children to support
the income of young architect that obviously out
Wndt Evelyn wanted was 10 make money, not TO spend
it. And there beginning be feeble flicker of spectator
interest in figure skating At New Yorks Madison Square
Garden figure skaters were beginning to appear the ce
at the hockey games though the crowd just likely
to boo to applaud When Evelyn the junior title she
Immediately got Offer hundred dollars for an exhbi
ton after the last hockey game of the 1t
ing but Evelyn ddn hesitate She grabbed
it. What she stood the blase hockey fans on their
with her speed and daring jumps
But for couple of years tough troupng The occa
siona appearances at hockey gaes at hundred dol
lars ess the high spots In between she sated at
outdoor canvals, where the ice usually rough the
music the wind help and the pay little more than
pocket money.
She delighted to get engagement for her second
summer as professional skating in little thirty
outdoor tank in Cincinnati park, at hundred dollars
week. Bruce drove her with the children deposited them
and started right back to his job in New York EVELYN
checked the two children with the surprised show manager
and went out to do her opening number.
1t went off all right but that grueng summer
three shows day that dinky little rink in killing heat
tor audiences who sluggish the weather But it
made real ouper of Evelyn Determined to sell her tricks
to the audience she began incorporating her act stunts
from the routine of the vaudeville acrobats who were billed
with her.
small child until she fourteen Evelyn had grown to
height of five feet eight but not until she became
ouper that she attained her amazing physical develop
nent Today though she very feminine with her pretty
face her blue and her gay dmpd smile she stronger
than most Her back is ripping mass of muscle as
she skates This strength enables her jump higher than
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