The Buffalo Times/1914/Is Champion Of The Ice Skaters

Is Champion Of The Ice Skaters. Alfred Naess of Norway, Possesses Numerous Medals, a Tribute to His Efficiency on the Ice. Not to have witnessed the great Alpine scene In "The Pleasure Seekers," the big Winter Garden show, is to have missed a marvelous exhibition of all the winter sports. 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. They had just completed a nine months' engagement at the London Opera House when they were engaged as a feature in "Pleasure Seekers" at the Winter Garden. 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. They represent all that a most thrilling and graceful in this most difficult, act and they make a beautiful picture in their evolutions.