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Holiday on Ice, Inc. 2 Pennsylvania Plaza New York, N.Y. 10001 All correspondence should be mailed to above address. Holiday's World has been prepared and edited by Bill Doll and Company, Inc. The National Press Agents Holiday On Ice is a subsidiary of Madison Square Garden Corporation ITINERARY NATIONAL TOUR Mexico City May 1 - May 31 Vacation Rehearsals July 10 - Aug. 9 Knoxville, Tenn Aug. 10 - Aug. 16 Nashville, Tenn Aug. 18 - Aug. 23 New York City, N.Y Aug. 26-Sept. 7 INTERNATIONAL TOUR - MEXICO Guadalajara Apr. 30 - May 11 San Luis Potosi May 14 - May 19 Torreon May 22 - May 26 Chihuahua May 29 - June 7 Vacation Rehearsals Aug. 17 - SHOWBOAT PRODUCTION Turin, Italy May 5 - May 10 Rome, Italy May 12 - May 24 Bologna, Italy May 26 - May 31 Milan, Italy June 1 - June 14 Toulouse, France June 17 - June 24 Bordeaux, France June 26 - July 5 Pau, France July 6 - July 12 Vacation KING ARTHUR PRODUCTION Poland April 24 - May 24 U.S.S.R May 27-July 5 Vacation July 6 - July 29 Nice, France July 31 - Aug. 16 Nimes, France Aug. 19 - Aug. 25 Beziers, France Aug. 26 - Aug. 31 Rehearsals Sept. 1 - SOUTH AMERICAN TOUR Sao Paulo, Brazil Apr. 9 - May 10 Rio de Janeiro, Brazil May 14 - June 7 Maracaibo, Venezuela June 10 - June 21 Barcelona, Venezuela .June 24 -July 5 Caracas, Venezuela July 7 - Aug. 2 Maracay, Venezuela Aug. 5 -Aug. 11 Barranquilla, Col Aug. 14 - Aug. 23 Bogota, Col Aug. 26 - Sept. 20 FAR EAST TOUR Penang, Malaya - May 10 Djakarta, Indonesia May 13 - June 14 Seoul, South Korea June 18 - July 5 Osaka, Japan July 11 - July 21 ANNIVERSARY Continued from Page 1 Chalfen pioneered in putting on ice shows where they have never been before. By trial and error, he learned to stage skating spectaculars wherever there was a flat surface. The first attempt to keep ice under canvas in hot sunshine came up ice water. But finally mastered was the art of working on football fields, bull rings, desert strips, Roman arenas, tennis courts, a Korean palace and a Singapore outdoor Coney Island. A majority of Holiday on Ice extravaganzas are performed indoors where control of ice quality and working conditions ?╟÷ it's no fun working on ice when desert winds blow sand on the skaters?╟÷are most favorable. By taking the ice and ice shows to fans, and also to audiences who have never seen ice or ice skaters, Holiday on Ice productions have pretty well covered the world since 1945. Only Red China remains unbooked, and the hope is that Holiday will soon perform there and break precedent as it did when it became the first American ice show to perform in Moscow in 1959. For several years Holiday productions have jammed the foremost sports buildings: Madison Square Garden, Lenin Sports Palace, Hallenstadion of Dortmund, and Deutschlandhalle of Berlin. Now, under the banner of Madison Square Garden Productions, Holiday on Ice happily becomes a participant in their plans to develop and produce the finest in both sports and entertainment spectaculars throughout the world. For this Silver Anniversary Year the American scene is being covered by the National and International companies. The Showboat and King Arthur companies are touring Europe: France, Switzerland, Germany, Czechoslovakia, Belgium, Italy, Holland, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Finland and the USSR. The South American company will include Argentina, Chile, Brazil, Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru in its itinerary. Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, the Philippine Islands, Thailand, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Singapore have been scheduled for the Far East company. Holiday on Ice shows are no strangers to audiences in most of these cities. 1970 is the show's 23rd anniversary in Mexico; 22nd in South America; 18th in the Far East. The USSR dates mark the 11th anniversary of the Moscow premiere, extended from two to eight weeks because of Holiday's popularity. Holiday iced up its first productions in Africa and Australia 13 years ago. The worldwide roll call of Holiday on Ice companies lists 525 skaters under contract; 500 people handling production, promotion, technical, and business details. Millions of dollars are tied up in ice making equipment, production paraphernalia, wardrobes, and special railroad cars. The Show must go on ?╟÷ and does ?╟÷ getting bigger and better each year. OSLO PERFORMANCE HONORS SONJA HENIE The King Arthur Show opened its annual engagement in Oslo February 3 with a Royal Command Performance combined with a special benefit for the Sonja Henie Memorial Fund. The fund was established in the skating star's name to provide instruction and financial aid for youngsters who might not otherwise have the opportunity to further their skating talent. Norway's King, the Crown Prince and the Princess attended the gala affair, and Holiday's president Morris Chalfen flew in for the event. Miss Henie, undoubtedly the most re- nouned and best loved figure in the skating world, made her home in Oslo, and died there last October 12. Holiday on Ice was especially dear to her: she was the show's shining star in Europe in the early fifties, and kept in close and constant touch with it even after her retirement from professional life. Shortly before her death, Miss Henie attended a Holiday performance during its Geneva engagement. Afterwards, she visited backstage with two of today's skating greats now performing with the show, Joan Haanappel (R) and Sjoukje Dijkstra (L). Skater Bobby Young snapped their picture (see insert), probably one of the last taken of the great lady before her death. OPERATION DJAKARTA - 3 DAYS TO OPENING-' Countdown for the Holiday on Ice opening at the Djakarta World Exposition gave considerable cause for concern. After hurdling almost insurmountable odds transporting the South American company and production equipment to Indonesia for the special engagement, Holiday faced still another dilemma: 3 days prior to scheduled July 7 opening, construction on the Exposition building left a great deal to be desired! (see photo above). Show finally opened on July 3, in the partially completed arena. Continued from Page 1 quarters in Copenhagen elicits information that the missing freighter has mal de mer in Singapore drydock. Information is much less explicit as to whereabouts of Holiday refrigeration equipment. June 18 ?╟÷ Search representative dispatched to Singapore. Equipment located aboard barge in harbour to which it had been transferred before freighter limped into drydock. Shipping company planned to hold equipment on barge indefinitely until another vessel turned up heading for Djakarta. Morris Chalfen makes urgent phone call to Copenhagen to obtain release of equipment. June 25 ?╟÷ Equipment transferred to first available vessel and embarks once again for Djakarta. June 27 ?╟÷ Refrigeration and piping equipment arrives in Djakarta, miraculously in time for scheduled July 1 opening. From Marseilles, France: May 15 ?╟÷ Sets and lighting from Holiday's European Showboat production leave for Djakarta by sea. May 22 ?╟÷ Freighter conks out in Medeterran- ean and is towed back to port. Time no longer permits the re-shipment of Showboat equipment by sea. Worldwide phoning begins in frantic effort to book a commercial aircraft large enough to now ship entire Rio production of sets, props, lighting and costumes to Djakarta. Space needed is the largest in commercial crafts. Space available is non-existent, requiring months of advance booking. Limited time remains, and a crisis of major proportion develops. June 10 ?╟÷ Search finally turns up London air freight company with proper craft available to solve the dilemma. It is a CL 44 - capable of lifting 45,000 pounds - and located at an airport in Montreal. Holiday is not choosy. The CL 44 departs Montreal for R io. From Riode Janiero, Brazil: June 9 ?╟÷ South American skating company completes its annual Rio engagement and departs for Frankfurt by air, for European vacation. Two weeks later, a Czechoslovak- ian Airlines charter flight collects the vacationing skaters to fly them to their next assignment ?╟÷ where else? ?╟÷ Djakarta. June 12 -The chartered aircraft from Montreal is loaded with complete South American show equipment and departs Rio for direct flight to Djakarta. At Djakarta, Indonesia: June 26, 27, 28 ?╟÷ Performers and production equipment all present and accounted for, ... ANEWD/I/VCE TO SB i/VCL UOEO /A/ OFF/C/AL COMPETmOfi/S AFTER OCTOBER '70 W/LL BE mE&/</Af8A, /A/VENTED BY IA64LTER GREGORY & F/RST PERFORMED OA/ LO//OOA/'S h/ESTM/Zl/STER- /CERINK /N ;938. ready for the scheduled July 1 opening. July 1 ?╟÷ Construction on exhibition building far too incomplete for show to open. July 3 ?╟÷ Holiday on Ice finally opens Djakarta World Exposition engagement despite continued building construction. The countless phone calls, plans and activities for the half-way around the world project touched bases in New York, London, Santiago, Rio, Johannesburg, Frankfurt, Marseilles, Montreal, Copenhagen, Singapore, Hong Kong, Tokyo, and of course, Djakarta. All in a Holiday's work .... HAD SKATES! DID TRAVEL! Caught in the network of activity surrounding the Djakarta engagement were Donna and Michel Bagneris, line captains assigned to the International company. The Bagneris made their own bid for record number of miles traveled last year. They were working with the International show in Caracas, Venezuela when they were instructed to fly 3000 miles to Rio, to assist the South American company with new production routines. When the Rio engagement ended, the performers flew to Europe for their two week vacation, and the Bagneris went along. Two weeks later they flew with the troupe to Djakarta on the Czech charter flight. There, intensive work began on honing ice routines to required precision for the Djakarta World Exposition engagement. This chore completed, they returned to their "home base" ?╟÷ the International company, which was in rehearsal in Bismark, North Dakota. When last seen, Donna and Michel were packing ?╟÷ or were they unpacking?