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HOLIDAY EDITION UNION PRESS-COURIER. Thursday, December 14, 1939.
Christmas
Play
By Katherine Edelman
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HE town hall was wreathed with
holly and mistletoe.
Bright red |
bells hung from the old-fashioned |
chandeliers. Christmas candles sent
the crowd who thronged through the |
doors.
By eight o'clock every seat was
occupied. Small gossip and mur-
murs of expectancy ran through the
crowd. The little town was proud
of the boy who was taking the lead-
ing part in the play. They had
known Ted Rawlings all their lives.
Known him as an easy-going lad, in-
terested in nothing more than fish
ing and hunting around the coun-
try, and later as an astonishingly
changed ambitious fellow. No one
seemed to understand how the quick
transition oecurred.
All eyes turned to the stage as the
heavy curtain rolled upward. Three
hundred pairs of eyes fastened
themselves upon the moving, speak-
ing figures. “Isn't Ted wonderful,”
young girls whispered breathlessly
to each other. Between acts, thun-
“Ted, you were perfectly wonder-
ful,” Sally was saying.
derous bursts of applause filled the | L
room. Hands clapped with vehe- |
mence. Small boys made their ap- |
wroval known by shrill whistling.
Ted carried the audience wit |
him, every step of the way.
seemed to enter, to merge Ta
completely in the character he por-
trayed. His make-believe was so in-
tense in the last act, that there was
@ deep silence for a moment when
the final curtain fell.
For the time it was no make-
believe to Ted. He was living
again all the agony of parting, of |
seeing Sally Howard go away with-
out a word. He had been sure until |
her train pulled out that she would |
come and say how serry she was |
for the bitter, reproachful words |
she had hurled at him. Words that |
had left their mark upon his soul— |
that had stung him into a mad, am- |
bitious desire to show her what he |
could do.
He found no real satisfaction in |
the tumultuous applause that fol- |
lowed. In this hour of his triumph, | |
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| weoden shoes to fill them with gifts.
Particularly; do we appeal to the ladies in assisting
them buy the men folks gifts ofl something to wear—
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{ only she was here! If only she had |
cared! He scarcely knew what he
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| congratulations.
Suddenly small hands pressed
membered voice spoke in his ear.
“Ted, you were perfectly wonder-
ful,”” Sally was saying. “wonderful,
wonderful. I'm so proud—so proud
“But, Sally, | don't understand. | |
thought you were in New York.” |
“I was, until last night. I've been
keeping track of you. I knew all
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you have been working lately 1
‘But the things you said, Sally?
They hurt—they still do.’
*‘1 wanted them to hurt, Ted.
know—I know it was cruel, but
seemed no other way. Someone had
to give you the right kind of push
to get you going. You know you
were really lazy? But now, well,
you've really put on speed.”
“Nothing like the speed I'm go-
ing to show in getting ready for a
Christmas wedding. There's just
two days left. We've got to make it
a really big event. Let's give out
the announcement now--~while the
crowd is still in the hall.”
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The First Santa Claus
The first Santa Claus was St. Nich-
olas, Bishop of Myra, who started
mysterious midnight gift-bearing
journeys. In the Fourth century he
was famous because he was a rich
man who enjoyed giving secret gifts
to the poor. One of his tricks was
to throw purses of gold into cottage
windows and run away.
From Europe’s Christmas Menu
Take your choice of Christmas
eats: Plum pudding in England,
Pfeffernuesse in Germany, Vier:
knack in Denmark, Fatigman’s Bak-
kels in Norway, Horse-shoe cake in
Hungary, Speculaas in Holland, and |
Lutfisk in Sweden. [
Getting a Shoeful in Holland
Not on reindeer but on a white
horse, St. Nicholas arrives in some
parts of Holland, and instead of look-
ing for stockings he searches for
Equal parts of ammonia and turpen-
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