Salt Lake Telegram | 1940-12-20 | Page 30 | Grade School Students Present Varied Christmas Programs

t Pupils Present Yule Plays an and Music Events to t o Usher In Holiday Season for or T Thousands ous f v t 4 s a Q Y L r L as t r y ti q r Y 4 q qs s W iii M t w s 's sr r y q i Y GH CHRISTMAS ACTIVITIES HOLD SWAY IN CITY SCHOOLS Upp Upper r left Julia Morley left Mary Jane Burt Donna Jean Cow Cowley cy Mary Elizabeth May Grant Horne Home and Wayne Rosendahl Rosendahl Rosendahl Rosen- Rosen dahl sing carols at Columbus school Upper right the pantomime pantomime pantomime pan pan- of the Nativity is presented at Emerson school with Leon Leol Burnett left B Bonnie nnie Jean Crask and David Daviel West ta taking i g part Lower Richard Hadley and l Marilyn n Van Home Hornc decorate windows at Oquirrh school Grade School Students Present Varied arse Christmas r Is Programs rams Salt Lake City grade school children Friday had completed their Christmas programs with many and varied observances held in school rooms and at small small gatherings Pupils and teachers were busy for lor weeks preparing t their activities activities ties and hardly a a single classroom was without a program m of some type Many school grad grades s arranged elaborate cantatas and plays andin and andin andin in many instances the students adapted their plays from old Christmas favorites Children at the Douglas school presented The Magic Nutcracker from the Nutcracker Suite an and third-grade third st students dents at the Emerson Emerson Emerson Emer Emer- son school staged a costumed pantomime pantomime pan pan- pantomime of the Nativity Columbus school pupils as did most other institutions featured carols but Columbus school boys installed their ow own microphone I and transmitted the singing to each room Titles of plays presented at other schools indicate the scope of the observances The school Edison present cantata of Bettys Betty's Christmas Gift The C Christmas h r i t m mas a s Fairy and Scrooge was the he play title at the Franklin school while grade first-grade children at Liberty school told in drama the story of The Little Bears and Christmas Many other schools presented similar observances Teachers were hampered in preparing preparing preparing pre pre- paring the plays since many of the students participating were absent from school because of influenza Assemblies of student bodi bodies S were forbidden because of influenza influenza influenza enza forcing cancellation of high school and lower division high school programs