of the show, using his film and entertainment background to model it after Broadway theatre extravaganzas. He closely supervised every phase of the show, including the hiring of performers, who lived in a closely supervised boarding school atmosphere when they were traveling. One of the show's early performances was in Duquesne Gardens in September 1940. By 1945 it was playing in 20 North American cities, with only four weeks off in a year. Harris traveled with the Ice Capades for the first three weeks of every year's new show, and attended all 26 performances when it visited Pittsburgh. Printed programs for the shows featured the phrase "John H. Harris presents... Ice Capades." In 1941 Harris hired 16-year-old figure skating champion Donna Atwood, who quickly became the star of the show, performing as such for fifteen years. He married her, 27 years his junior, in 1949; the couple divorced ten years later. In 1963, John H. Harris sold the Ice Capades for $5.5 million. He died in 1969 at age 70. References 1898 births 1969 deaths Businesspeople from Pittsburgh 20th-century American businesspeople