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Show Hinckley News BIRDIE LOU HILTON Mrs. Ross Bell and two children of Provo, Utah, have been visiting at the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Carl Theobald. Friday night the elementary presented pre-sented their annual Christmas operetta op-eretta to the PTA . The hall was filled to overflowing with parents and friends to watch the youngsters young-sters perform. The operetta was entitled "At the Court of Santa Claus", and was worked out in three scenes. The first portrayed a crowd of Christmas shoppers returning home with their arms laden with bundles. The second was that of a poor family returning return-ing home after window shopping in the town. The final scene was in Santa's court where all the toys passed in review. Paul Dewsnup took the part of Santa and Mary Warnick was Mrs. Santa. Other parts in the show were the court heralds, the pages and jesters. Diane Brunson took the part of the spirit of Christmas and announced an-nounced such toys as Christmas sprites, Blue Birds, Bunny Band, Chocolate drops and candy canes, Snow men, Toy soldiers and Mama Dolls. The story of Little Red Riding Rid-ing Hood was told by the story princess and acted out in panto-mine, panto-mine, very realisticly. All the costumes cos-tumes were designed and made by the mothers of the children and were very lovely. Mrs. Phyllis Bennett and Mrs. Melba Jacobsen were directors of the program. Mrs. George Puckett was accompanist. Lars Bishop is home from Snow College to spend the holidays. Gladys Carter is home from shopping in Salt Lake City last week. Lafe Nielson and Roy Hilton, who have been employed at Salt Lake City returned home for the holidays. The Hinckley Art Club met at the home of LaVerne Theobald on Wednesday. Mrs. Mary Reeve entertained en-tertained the group with some X-mas X-mas poems. The time was spent in visiting and sewing and exchanging ex-changing o'f gifts. A delicious lunch was also served. Pat Pratt, Lola Wright, and Betty Bet-ty Hardy have returned home from the BYU to spend Christmas. The town held a ceremony Saturday Sat-urday evening when the Christmas Christ-mas lights were turned on. A short program was given after which Santa Claus talked to the children Christmas music was played over a loud speaker during the ceremony. cere-mony. The tow nis now gaily decorated de-corated for the holidays with strings str-ings of lights across the road and a large Christmas tree. The evergreens ever-greens in front of the chapel are also lighted. All the business houses hou-ses and homes have also decorated to add to the color. Sunday evening the service was a welcome for Irvin Chaffin who recently returned from a mission in the southern states. The choir furnished the music and Irvin and his mother and sister, Norma talked. talk-ed. Mr. and Mrs. D. A. Allred shopped shop-ped in Provo on Saturday. Mr. and Mrs. Allen Kellar visited visit-ed in Richfield over the weekend. Bishop and Mrs. Walter Ekins spent Tuesday in Salt Lake City. Mr. and Mrs. Carl Theobald spent the week end in Provo |