Show Shown above are two of the many scenes to be presented to Utah audiences in the Christmas holiday presentation of the Nutcracker In the first gives technical to four of the Arabian In the several of the Utah ballerinas give life to The Waltz of the Several dances have been to this year's j A Christmas Story j I Should Have Known Better When I Didn't See The By FRED HALES I As I remember the night of the catastrophe was a blizzard I affair with ten-foot snow drifts for It was about three years after your mother and I were married and was our first and last philanthropic We didn't have any trouble finding the We remembered it because we had looked at a house there before we bought It was just what we had wanted but we couldn't afford the down We saw a big Cadillac parked in the driveway of our dream As soon as we looked at the address on our dream we knew there was some mistake in the street So jolly old Santa in his suit of red marched up to the door to find where the Poor little kiddies I pushed the button and the air resounded with the Halle-lujah The door flew exposing a miniature Al Capone in the His mop of greasy Mr reminded me of the a scalP treatment out I didn't know what to make w we smoldering cigarette which wangled from his sneering e couldn't have been a Marlboro n. He didn't have the I was just ready to ask him to take off his when the routine In one coordinated movement he spat out of the corner of his mouth and with sneer still intact It was only the tight grip I had on the insides of my pockets that kept me from throwing my hands in the wouldn't know by any chance perhaps where I could find the dear little would said with me inside his Then my sweet little friend seemed to get the picture and casually instructed me to have and the take the sled up on the roof to the while sarcastically adding that there was a ladder out back if I needed Ordinarily I would have called halt at climbing but I was feeling my Christmas spirits so I hopped in the sled and flew up on the By now I had carried this Santa Glaus bit far enough that it had to be finished to be So I climbed into the held my nose and at 32 feet per second per seconded down the I was afraid that I might have got a little dirty coming I became thoroughly convinced when one of the little I think it was piped up with da There they sitting on the the poor little guess you don't have any got a They I think it was His name turned out to be the guess your father works never He's down at the employment office applying right like you'll be back on your feet as soon his job comes that's my old just leaves a phoney telephone Has to apply to get the unemployment commanded sweet little you wanna leave the loot and take we can call a By now I was pinching myself trying to wake The house was beautifully could you possibly own a home like living on unemployment take a little one youngster of rh for 25 With twelve of that See CHRISTMAS p. 4 1 Christmas Story from page comes to three hundred a a month the kick but it sure beats chimed in little Sucker that I I had to ask is it that people as well off as you would be nominated for for I thought I had them this They all looked at as if asking permission to He finally nodded to little deal with the Smiths across the Alfred We nominate they Saves a little money around Christmas |