I want to go home." The diminutive Sonje Henie crinkled up her blue eyes in mock exasperation while she sat in her crowded dressing room last night and told modestly of her skating career.

Remarkably, no one died. But the incident, which occurred at the start of the much anticipated Sonja Henie Ice Revue, caused havoc in Baltimore, taxed the city’s emergency services, triggered $5 ...