The legendary skater, Richard Dwyer, sat with Susan Austin and Randy Gardner for an informal Question and Answer session recently in Burbank, California at the Pickwick Ice Arena. Mr. Dwyer's fame as Mr. Debonair in Ice Follies and later in Ice Capades made him one of the most popular ice show personalities in history.
 

The famous ice extravaganza was nearly twenty years old when the 1960’s decade begins. This era could possibly be marked as the most colorful and innovative in all of the show’s history. In 1960 and 1961, Ice Capades featured skating stars Aja Zanova, Cathy Steele and Phil Romayne, Bobby Specht, 1960 Olympic Pair Champions-Barbara Wagner and Bob Paul, Cathy Machado and Ronnie Robertson. The lavish production numbers would be "Babes in Toyland," "Ice Ca Cha-Cha-Cha," "Blue Danube" and "Il Travatore."
 

In the early 1900s pioneering professional skaters performed miniature ice revues in hotel supper clubs on small portable ice stages called "tanks." The directors and performers who created those first tank shows adapted show biz production and performance elements still used today from the then popular vaudeville shows and lively Broadway musical revues.
 

There have been many skating stars throughout the decades, but no one has had the talent and as diverse a life as Belita. She was a professional dancer, actress, swimmer and champion ice skater where she skated for Britain in the 1936 Olympics.