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Alfred Ingvald Naess

Works about Alfred Ingvald Naess

• Hippodrome (1921)

"Alfred Naess with two assistants, one billed as Miss Sigrid, appeared in a skating demonstration on artificial ice plaque laid on the stage. Naess was once speed champion of Norway."

• Is Champion Of The Ice Skaters (1914 January 4)

"… With skating, snowshoeing and tobogganing is the unique fancy skating of Alfred and Sigrid Naess, the Pavlowa and Mordkin of ice skates. To watch the couple in their extraordinary ice skating is to pale into insignificance the greatest efforts of the most proficient skaters hitherto seen. Rare indeed, in the annals of skating has such scientific perfection been reached. It is a triumph on skates. The agile and daring ice whirlers come from Norway, and all their lives have been devoted to fancy ice skating. The Naesses nave competed in figure skating contests at the Palais de Glace in Paris. the Berlin Ice Palace, St. Moritz, and other famous skating resorts, and are acknowledged to be the champion exhibition skaters of Europe, Berlin, St. Petersburg and Brussels, have also bowed to the king and queen of the ice. … Alfred Naess, who is an athlete who would put in the shade the Roman gladiators, holds the world's championship short distance and the all championships of Norway, the home of ice skating. Both he and Sigrid Naess possesses numerous medals and prizes won in many competitions. Sigrid Naess is the personification of airy space, and her dancing on skates is a joy to behold."

• Icy-Looking Mystery Of Ice Skating (1914)

"It isn't much of a mystery to Alfred Naess and it represents only about 12 years of work. And to the patent offices of all the countries of Europe and America it isn't much of a mystery. But to theatergoers, press agents, reporters and actors it's a baffling secret, guarded by all the Norwegian shrewdness in Naess' makeup. Speaking, of course, of the skating act on Alvin stage, and the evolutions of Alfred Naess and his wife on their skates. It isn't ice. It isn't a paraffin preparation - fire laws prevent that. And it isn't anything frozen-that would melt too easily and the chorus girls couldn't sit on it. But as Naess whirls about on his skates it flakes and chips like ice. It's made up fresh every week, renewed every day and is spread an eighth of an inch thick On boards. It has soda and ammonia in it, doesn't cost much and is almost as good for skating as ice."

• Naess's Real Ice Made By Very Secret Process (1914)

"To convert a hardwood floor into a smooth hardened surface resembling in fact an icy plane in the space of five minutes seems like an impossibility. … The first surface is made of two-inch yellow pine tongued and grooved and spliced on the back with heavy iron strips. Over this is spread a solution of rock salt and soda. About three minutes before the wonderful skating act this covering is taken off and the surface sprinkled with a solution, the process of which is a secret owned and controlled by Alfred Naess. It solidifies almost instantaneously and you find a hard surface as smooth as ice and over which the common ice skate glides just as easily as though one were on Belle Isle."

• The Montreal Tournament (1897 February 6)

"Montreal; February 5, 1897. In the skating tournament today Alfred Naess, of Norway, was declared the winner of the 500-meter race by virtue of having the best time - 46 4-5."