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Show Sugar House Opens Big Christmas Season with Two Santas Sugar House will have its own laughing, mechanical Santa Claus for its gay 1947 Christmas celebration! In addition, the real St. Nicholas will arrive Friday afternoon to take children's messages and give presents. Announcement of the big surprise which has been kept secret for nearly two weeks was made today by Horace A. Soivnsen, chairman of Sugar House's Christmas celebration. I The laughing Santa arrived Monday by air express from New York thus giving the committee enough time to finish his special "Sugar House" and place him in it before the opening day program Friday, Nov. 28, at 4 p.m. "Santa's laugh is so contagious and so lifelike that no one regardless of age can help but laugh, with him," Mr. Sorensen said. Home for the mechanical Santa will be a specially-constructed little house decorated with candy canes and all types of Christmas sweets, hence the appropriate name, "Sugar House." The house will be located Friday at the west end of the plaza, while the real Santa Claus will come to his special home at the north end via jeep. "Children who visit the real Santa Claus will receive one of the nicest gifts ever given in Sugar House," Mr. Sorensen added. A complete evening of entertainment enter-tainment is promised to all who gather at the plaza beginning at 4 p.m., Friday. All Sugar House stores will stay open until 9 p.m. so that families can take care of their Christmas shopping shop-ping in between program events. Two large Christmas trees form the central decoration at the plaza. Large wreathed and lighted stars will greet visitors on the four main lanes into the business district. Each star will be balanced off with interior-lighted interior-lighted shadow boxes saving "Season's Greetings." Project likely to give the most festive atmosphere to Sugar House was on its way to com- pletion this week when nearly 100 business concerns signed a pledge to join the outside lighting light-ing contest which will be judged Dec. 15. The huge task of contacting con-tacting all these businesses was done by Al Larsen, assistant to Mr. Sorensen. Mr. Larsen visited vis-ited every business from 9th East to 13th East on 21st South, and from Hollywood to the railroad rail-road tracks on 11th East and Highland Drive. List of the cooperating co-operating businesses will appear next week. Mr. Larsen announced that everyone in the' Sugar House business area is invited to participate, par-ticipate, including non-business organizations like schools. "If everyone will do his best to appropriately decorate and light up his place, we will have a spectacular holiday atmosphere," Mr. Larsen said. |
