Evening star., 1940-01-07

IINoMEDAY,' Evelyn Chandler's mother told her,
you'll wish you had stayed at home and practiced
~ your piano lessons
But Evelyn ncorgble Ever since she had discovered
Brookns indoor skating rink she had lost all interest
in practcng the piano. She would home from school,
grab her skates and rush off the rink Her mother tried
hard make her the folly her ways but it
Skating her mother admitted all right, in moderation
good healthy exercise But what about the tre Had she
ever heard of anybody making career of skating?
No. Evelyn never had But that was twenty years
ago. Any mother of today who put that question to child
would get quite different 1t would probably be-:
Certainly Look at Evelyn Chandler
And would be very logical answer too because Evelyn
Chandler has attained fame and income figure
skater that would make many successful concert pianist
sigh with envy Crowds pack the nks to her do things
skates that the next thing to impossible Incredible
ps spras and Jumps Jumping four feet into the air and
coming down in split Leapng up and doing two full turns
without touching the ice Amazing handsprngs and cart
wheels including the butterfly that difficult Arabian
carwhee with complete somersaut in the air. which only
accomplished acrobat do withoH skates. With
equal acobatc figure skater she today Americas
Number One Ice Touper and has been billed in every big
rink in this country and Canada The Queen of the Ice
But you can't blame Mrs Chandler for foreseeing all
that When Evelyn learning to skate most Americans
thought of skating attempt usually unsuccessful
to remain upright frozen pond Her career has
parallel to the whole hguresk movement in this
ty and has been important part Both the sport and
the star started practically from scratch and through
plenty of growing before reaching the full blown
glory that theirs today Today there least times
many skating rnks as when she started skating
When Evelyn discovered the SPORT almost the only in
terest in kept alive by few clubs of enthusiasts in
Boston, New York. Philadelphia and Minneapolis Oh yes
and Brooklyn But matter of fact the skaters at the
Brooklyn rink enthusiastic than expert Evelyn
didn't know that of She thought that they
wonderful
The professional at the club old-tmer who had
to America with European troupe In odd moments
he taught Evelyn tricks skates though paying
practically attention to the compulsory eghts tees and
loops that the fundamentals of modern figure skating
She had to make up for them by lot of hard work later
When Evelyn twelve she gave her first public per-
Torrance the rink couple of years later she went to
New Haven to compete in the National Figure Skating
Associations national amateur ladies' championship But
she and she could why She hadn't learned the
basic figures Her sapdash jumping and spinning and cart
wheels and splits made the dainty uraladyke maneuvers
of her competitors look pretty pale but didn't
some
While she learning she her first competition at
fifteen The status Of figure skating in those early postwar
years pretty we'll exeped by that competition 1t
held in small New York night club, thirty by forty
foot artificial tank Flushed with success she was all for
trying get regular job skating the club but her father
put his foot down. Not in place like that he declared,
with horror Eve grins when she remembers. Poor
Father she says That club like church compared