Javascript required:We're sorry, but Newspapers.com doesn't work properly without JavaScript enabled. You will need to enable Javascript by changing your browser settings.Learn how to enable it.

Fish Wrap—The Newspapers.com Official Blog

Show foes on despite fall

: Herald-Leader/Frank Anderson Barbie Smith, recuperating at hotel after accident during ice show Show goes on despite fall By Gary Cohn stop, in Virginia. The Ice Capades are apStaff Writer pearing in Lexington through Sunday. New Year's Eve in Rupp Arena. Walters said the accident did not affect the show. "The girls flying the next number The Ice Capades take to the ice, the orwent up without any hesitation." chestra plays "Ease on Down the Road," and Barbie Smith, a 20-year-old chorus girl from But Karen Jubert of Plattsburg, N.Y., a Toronto, Canada, flashes a cherubic smile chorus girl in the show and Ms. Smith's from a platform that is swinging slightly roommate, disagreed. "It was a shock to evabout 30 feet above the ice. erybody," said Ms. Jubert, who is not asWithout warning, a bolt gives way, and signed to one of the flying platforms herself. the platform crashes to the ice. A skater "It was so hard to go back out. I think everyscreams. s. The crowd gasps. Ms. Smith is one had their mind on Barbie." taken off the ice, but the show goes on, with the skaters forced to maneuver around the No public announcement was made about hole caused by the fallen platform. Ms. Smith's condition. giant "I looked over at my girlfriend on the Ms. Smith said 'last night that a doctor in other pod and smiled. And that's all I remem- Lexington told her that she has torn ligaber," Ms. Smith recalled yesterday as she sat ments in the back of her knee. in her room at the Hyatt Regency Hotel with an ice pack on her badly swollen right knee. Ms. Smith, who has been skating since Ms. Smith had been treated and released she was 10 years old and has been a member earlier at St. Joseph Hospital. "It happened of the Ice Capades for the last three years, so fast my stomach didn't even drop." said that she is eager to return to the show. "It's just one of those things," Ice Ca- Asked if she is thinking about quitting the pades manager Chuck Walters said during show because of the accident, she said, "Are last night's performance at Rupp Arena. you kidding? As soon as I get better, I'm "She'll be rejoining us in Hampton," he con- coming back. tinued, referring to the Ice Capades' next "I'm lucky. I'm real lucky."

Tags:Barbie Smith

Article from 02 Jan 1982The Lexington Herald(Lexington, KY)

•

CLIPPED BY

Get started searching Newspapers by searching a keyword, name, or phrase…

People Topics Locations Other

View All Clippings