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This issue: Photo Features The Christmas Parade, Sequoia Lodge, Disney Dreams of Christmas, Winter Wonder Adventureland...Disney Classic Prep ‘n Landing, Dining at Bistrot Chez Rémy,The Legend of Santa Claus, A Ghost story for Christmas Eve and much, much more...

Disneygraphy Magazine Nº 7 - Nov/Dec 2014

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Walt Disney once called Christmas “that Disney time of year.” Walt meant that as a person, not as a businessman. Walt loved the Yuletide season.

You need to look no further than a num-ber of Walt Disney’s productions that por-tray the heartwarming nostalgic qualities of Christmas. The Nut-cracker suite from Fanta-sia, and the winter sea-son cartoon adventures of Mickey, Donald, Pluto and Chip ‘n Dale being the most famous.

Walt actual-ly had two wooden cases labeled “Walt’s Christmas List Local,” and the other “Walt’s Christmas List Out of Town”. These two wooden cases reside in the Walt Disney Archives. In them lists of all the gifts Walt selected for his employees, friends, family and people from showbiz and their chil-dren, perfectly organized by name. It even lists children’s hospitals from all around America. Yes, Walt loved the Yuletide sea-son and he loved to give.

Every Disney park around the world cel-ebrates Christmas starting as early as No-vember. The parks light up and become even more magical during the season with

several Christmas traditions that can be traced back to Walt himself.

In 1958, Walt Disney supposedly remarked to his friend Dr. Charles Hirt of the Uni-versity of Southern California, “We need Christmas carolers at Disneyland. Can’t we have a choir assembled at the hub of

Main Street by the Rail-road Station in Town Square? Have them sing to the guests there, and I’ll listen from my office over the Fire Station.”And so, the celebrated tra-dition of The Candlelight Processional began.

This story is supposedly written down in an unpub-lished manu-

script, so if the Candlelight Processional truly began this was is uncertain. But with Walt being who he was this story could very well be true.

Many of the other traditions slowly formed over the years like the Christmas parade and special celebrations by the cas-tle. And each year we look forward to the broadcast of the Disneyland Christmas Day Parade on television. Traditions that today we love and cherish, but wouldn’t have had without Walt...

“Christmas is that Disney time of year.”

Walt Disney

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The touches of Winter are round us;

He is busy with wind and with rain,

The leaves are all swept from the branches,

The pools are brimful in the lane.

How sombre the noontide! how sullen

The lowlands, where snowflakes fly fast!

How plaintive the notes of the robin!

For Winter has reached us at last.

- Alfred Norris, from Leisure Hour, 1877

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Disneygraphy Mag- azine is a fanzine focusing on the photographic beau-ty and detail of Dis- neyland Paris. We strive to bring you unique and per-sonal visions of the park through our own photography. Articles done on the history of the park and Disney in general will contain images and artwork of the Disney Company. This is done so with the utmost respect and only serves to tell our story. Care is taken to protect those images and all copy-right remain with the Disney Company, Disneyland Paris and all other Disney Companies if applicable.Please note that most of the advertisements in this magazine are custom made by the editors to give the magazine the look and feel of Disneyland Paris and are therefor not real advertisements from the park.

Find us here: disneygraphy.com / facebook.com/Disneygraphy / twitter.com/DisneygraphyIf you wish to contact us for more information:

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We would like to thank everybody who made 2014 a year to remember!Thank you all for your support and contributions to the Disneygraphy

Magazine.The magazines first year has been a bigger succes than we had ever hoped

for and we truly couldn’t have done this without you.

THANK YOU! Have Yourselves a Merry Disney Christmas and a Happy New Year!

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One of the best parts in making this magazine (besides the opportunity to share our love for Disney), is the research that comes with writing the articles.We love Disney History and all the sub-tle references to days of old that Walt put into his production. The research for our history articles is quite educational to us as well. Each year we look forward to visiting the park during the Christmas season. The atmosphere changes and the park looks even more magical. It’s the holiday spirit and its traditions that appeal to us.Many traditions come from the Vic-torian era, our favorite era. During our research for this issue into the old tradi-tions we came across some unexpected surprises that we wanted to share with you. We hope you will be inspired to sit by the fire on Christmas Eve with loved ones to revive a long lost tradition of Christmas.

Before our stay at Disneyland Paris we went to the city of Paris for ten days and during that stay we’ve been to Dis-neyland for just one day. It didn’t feel right to leave the resort after we had seen Disney Dreams and take the train back to Paris.We decided we wouldn’t go through that again and wait until the fifth of November for our annual stay at the wonderful Sequoia Lodge. We had an absolutely great time in Paris, the city is amazing when you know your way around. Especially when you consider Paris as a giant theme-park that has it’s own Main Street, Fantasy-, Discovery-, Adventure- and Frontierlands, there are many adventures to discover. Nothing however could beat the feeling of being in our beloved Disneyland and be there for the opening of the Christmas season and not have to leave for eight days!

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52Feature: The Legend of Santa Claus

Walt Disney StudiosFeature: Dining at Bistrot

Chez Rémy

Photo Feature: The Christmas Pa-

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ventureland

Feature: Christmas Songs from a

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Feature: Christmas Songs from a

Galaxy far, far away...

The ResortPhoto Feature: Sequoia

Lodge Hotel

Disney History:

Walt Tribute p3

Prep ‘n Landing (2009) p35

Further:

Editorial p7

Travel Guide p111

Magic on your Plate p76

Origins of the Jack-O-Lantern p60

A Ghost Story for Christmas Eve p70

The History of Christmas Carols o88

Short Stroy: The Water Ghost

of Harrowly Hall p116

Shorts:

Main Street Gazette p11

Emporium p112

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New Years Eve Programme

Parc Disneyland* 12h35 Frozen: A Royal Welcome Join us as we welcome two special guests : Queen Elsa and Princess Anna! * 13h00 Disney’s Christmas Parade* 13h50 Frozen: A Royal Welcome Join us as we welcome two special guests : Queen Elsa and Princess Anna!* 14h15 Disney’s Christmas Parade* 15h15 Frozen: A Royal Welcome Join us as we welcome two special guests : Queen Elsa and Princess Anna!* 15h40 Disney’s Christmas Parade* 17h10 Magical Christmas Wishes* 17h45 Disney Dreams®! of Christmas* 19h00 Disney Princess Promenade* 20h30 Magical Christmas Wishes/* 22h00 Magical Christmas Wishes* 23h59 Countdown…* 00h00 HAPPY NEW YEAR !* 00H00 Disney Dreams®! Of Christmas

Parc Walt Disney Studios* 19h30 - 20h00 Disney’s Stars ‘n’ Cars… as never seen before*!

An all-new Disney Stars’n’Cars with sur-prise guests who have come especially to celebrate New Year’s Eve with you!

* 20h30 - 21h00 Disney’s Stars ‘n’ Cars… as never seen before!* 21h00 - 22h30 Lucky Dance Party (Backlot)

Come and join Lucky for his high-energy Dance Party. Learn how to do the latest dance steps in just 5mn and then admire the results as you are projected on to the giant video screen!

* 22h30 - 23h59 Walt Disney Studios Midnight Party (Backlot)

It’s time to get your groove on with our talented musicians and singers who will have you dancing to their fabulous rhythms right up until the clock strikes twelve to welcome in the New Year!

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* 23h59 Countdown…* 00h00 The Happy-ever-after New Year’s Eve Spectacular! – Fireworks

A special magical tribute to Frozen mov-ie will accompany an explosive high tech fireworks display and welcome the year 2015 with a blast!

* 00H05 - 00h35 Walt Disney Studios Midnight Party (Backlot)

Disney Village

* 00h00 New Year fireworks

This year the sky above the Disney Lake will sparkle with icy colours and a mag-ical musical medley to welcome in the new year 2015.

Disney’s Cinderella Live-Action featureThe so far stunning looking Cinderella will be released in theatres on March 13 2015. Disney.com has already released two gorgeous trailers and a bunch of character posters. The movie stars Lily James and Richard Madden with the ever awesome Cate Blanchett and equallt awesome Helena Bonham-Carter. Directed by Kenneth Branagh (Thor) and a soundtrack by Pat-rick Doyle.The story of “Cinderella” follows the for-tunes of young Ella (Lily James) whose

merchant father remarries following the death of her mother. Eager to support her loving father, Ella welcomes her new step-mother (Cate Blanchett) and her daugh-ters Anastasia (Holliday Grainger) and Drisella (Sophie McShera) into the family home. But, when Ella’s father unexpect-edly passes away, she finds herself at the mercy of a jealous and cruel new family. Finally relegated to nothing more than a servant girl covered in ashes, and spiteful-ly renamed Cinderella, Ella could easily begin to lose hope. Yet, despite the cruel-ty inflicted upon her, Ella is determined to honor her mother’s dying words and to “have courage and be kind.” She will not give in to despair nor despise those who mistreat her. And then there is the dashing stranger she meets in the woods. Unaware that he is really a prince, not merely an apprentice at the Palace, Ella finally feels she has met a kindred soul. It appears her fortunes may be about to change when the Palace sends out an open

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invitation for all maidens to attend a ball, raising Ella’s hopes of once again encoun-tering the charming Kit (Richard Mad-den). Alas, her stepmother forbids her to attend and callously rips apart her dress. But, as in all good fairy tales, help is at hand, and a kindly beggar woman (Hel-ena Bonham-Carter) steps forward and – armed with a pumpkin and a few mice – changes Cinderella’s life forever.

Magic Kingdom Park Welcomes the Golden Coach from ‘Cinderella’

As a special holiday offering, guests vis-iting Magic Kingdom Park will have the opportunity to see the actual coach fea-tured in the upcoming live-action Disney film, “Cinderella.” A team of white horses will pull the dreamlike carriage in special pre-parade appearances through the park and down Main Street, U.S.A.

Inspired by the classic fairy tale, “Cin-derella” brings to life the timeless imag-es from Disney’s 1950 animated master-

piece in a visually dazzling spectacle for a whole new generation. The stunning, golden coach from the film will be grac-ing the parade route at Magic Kingdom Park through the holidays, and can also be seen as part of the “Disney Parks Frozen Christmas Celebration,” airing Christmas Day on ABC.

Temporary closure of the Salon Mickey

Due to renovation, the Salon Mickey will be closed from Monday, January 12 to at least Friday, Febuary 13, 2015. Improve-ments are being made to the area (paving), between the Disneyland Hotel and the entrance of Salon Mickey. The work is be-ing carried out as part of the strategy of renovation and maintenance of facilities of the resort.

This closure is necessary to preserve the safety of the guest and comfort (noise of jackhammers, removal of broken and un-even pavement). Disneyland hopes for your understanding. They will keep you informed should the expected time of the work be extended.

For more information contact: eurodisney@clubauctionaires.com

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Prep & Landing is a 2009 Disney computer animated television special, based on an idea by Chris Williams at Walt Disney Animation Studios. His idea was developed into a brilliant half-hour Christmas special by Kevin Deters and Stevie Wermers-Skelton.

When Chris Williams pitched the idea as a short film for the newly re-opened theat-rical shorts program at WDAS, John Las-seter immediately liked the idea. Lasseter considered it to work best as a television special. With the 2007 success of Dream-Works Animation special Shrek the Halls, ABC executives quickly approved the project.

StorySanta’s workshop, the North Pole. The set-ting of the short is Santa’s high-tech com-mand center. An Elf named Magee is the North Pole Christmas Eve Command Cen-ter Coordinator.

One of the Christmas elves named Wayne (Dave Foley), is part of an elite organiza-tion within the workshop known as “Prep & Landing”, whose job is to ready millions of homes around the world for Santa Claus’s visit. After working with “Prep & Landing” for 227 years, Wayne is looking forward to getting a promotion to be the Director of Naughty List Intelligence.

Wayne thinks he has the promotion in his pocket, but is surprised when the promo-tion goes to his former partner and train-

ee, Peterson. To add to his surprise, Wayne is partnered up by Magee with Lanny (Derek Richardson), a new rookie whom Wayne has to train as well.Lanny turns out to be an idealistic elf who has an undying enthusiasm for Christmas, to prepare the world for the annual trip of Santa Claus.

Wayne is still bitter about the promotion, and decides to slack off during a mission. He permits Lanny to do all of the work. However, they get more than they can bar-gain for when a young boy named Timmy Terwelp captures the two elves in action.

Meanwhile, Miss Holly, Santa’s assistant gives a briefing back at the North Pole on the trip, and Magee gets word of a storm over Section 7, where they are located and utters “Oh, frostbite” and calls out a code of “figgy pudding”. Santa is informed mid-flight of a massive snow storm and that Wayne and Lanny haven’t fully prepared the house yet. He is told to cancel the landing, which has never happened before.

Wayne and Lanny discover that the re-routing was a final decision, but after hearing Timmy thank them in his sleep, Wayne decides to fix it. He calls up Santa,

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telling him that he must land at Timmy’s house. Wayne and Lanny then work to-gether to land Santa safely on Timmy’s roof. When their tracking and landing de-vice is lost in said snowstorm so they im-provise from a display using an inflatable Santa snow globe, and save Santa’s sleigh from disaster.

On Christmas morning, Santa shows Wayne that Timmy had a merry Christ-mas. Santa gives Wayne a snow globe with a miniature version of Timmy’s house, and they see him enjoying Christmas. Impressed with their work Santa offers Wayne a promotion to be in charge of the Nice List Intelligence But Wayne, rekin-dled with the spirit of Christmas, turns down the promotion to continue his work on Prep and Landing with Lanny.

ReleaseThe special premiered on ABC on De-

cember 8, 2009 at 8:30 PM ET/PT, while in Canada, the special debuted on CTV December 10. The original date was to have been December 1, however, a speech at the United States Military Academy by United States President Barack Obama postponed the debut for a week.

The special was released on DVD on No-vember 22, 2011, along with the short films Tiny’s BIG Adventure and Operation: Se-cret Santa.[6] It was also released on DVD and Blu-ray of Prep & Landing: Totally Tinsel Collection on November 6, 2012, together with Operation: Secret Santa, Naughty vs. Nice, and Tiny’s BIG Adven-ture.

AwardsIn 2009 Prep and Landing won the Annie Award for Best Television Production. It also won Annies for Production Design in a Television Production for Andy Hark-

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ness and Best Character Design in a Tele-vision Production for Bill Schwab. In 2010 the show won a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Animated Production as well as three other Emmys.

Christmas EggsPrep and Landing is fun to watch in re-peated viewings because of a large num-ber of gags, references and in-jokes left by the animators. Many of which pay hom-age to other Christmas Specials and tradi-tions.

* In one scene, Mickey’s Christmas Car-ol is shown on the television of Lanny and Wayne’s assigned house in tribute to John Lasseter’s first stint at Disney, and Timmy Terwelp’s name is a tribute to Tiny Tim.

* Santa’s sleigh is codenamed “Rosebud” after the sled of Orson Wells’ titular char-acter in Citizen Kane.

* The “Go” code for launch is “Dash away,” used before Magee authorizes launch. (As in, “Dash away, dash away, dash away all”)

* The latitude and longitude of Timmy Terwelp’s residence (N 34’ 9’ 20” / W 118’ 19’ 23”) are in actuality that of The Walt Disney Company’s world headquarters in Burbank, California; however, the site in question is in the Ohio Valley near Cin-cinnati, where it would snow a lot more than Burbank.

* Director Kevin Deters’ hometown is Quincy, Illinois, home to Deter’s Dairy. During a scene in which Wayne is “being naughty” and making himself a drink, the milk carton Wayne is using has the De-ter’s logo.

* Look closely for the Christmas Tree from A Charlie Brown Christmas in Ma-gee’s office.

* A station wagon with the license plate “12501 WED” is the birthdate of Walt Dis-ney (December 5, 1901).

* The German Shepard who was in the prologue getting dusted to sleep was a re-colored version of the titular character of the 2008 film Bolt which was completing production as Prep & Landing was being made.

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* The image of Goofy used in Timmy Terwelp’s bedroom came from the poster for How to Hook Up Your Home Theatre.

* The scene of Christmas Eve prep is all shot from an elf ’s point of view, which is why you never see Santa’s face.

* The home of Timmy Terwelp seen in the snowglobe is actually based on co-di-rector Kevin Deter’s boyhood home, and a giraffe in Terwelp’s bedroom represents a plaything that one of his children plays with.

* As Wayne prepares to enter Santa’s of-fice, Miss Holly is typing the lyrics to Jin-gle Bells.

Shorts and SequelsA two-minute short on the Disney.com site, titled Tiny’s Big Adventure, feature Magee’s assistant trying to make a pot of coffee and in the process, accidentally ru-ins the elves’ break room.

A seven-minute short that debuted in 2010, Operation: Secret Santa, features Betty White as the voice of Mrs. Claus, who along with Magee, sends Lanny and Wayne into Santa’s office on a special as-signment.

A sequel, “Prep & Landing: Naughty vs. Nice”, premiered in 2011. In it, Wayne and Lanny uncover a hack by someone very naughty into the system, so they need the help of the head of the coal elves, not knowing that it is Noel, Wayne’s long-lost and estranged brother.

For the 2011 Holiday season, World of Col-or featured a Christmas pre-show based on Prep and Landing starting on Novem-ber 11. The pre-show became part of the new “Winter Dreams” themed show in 2013.

Prep and Landing became the first Disney

property to be crossed over with Mar-vel’s characters with the story “Mansion: Impossible”, in which Wayne and Lanny must prepare the Avengers Mansion for Christmas.

The story appears in Avengers #19, Su-per-Heroes #20 and Spider-Man #20 in November 2011.

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Adventureland, strange and mysterious lands far, far away with tropical forests and strange creatures. We may not have our own Jingle Cruise but only Disneyland Paris can turns these warm and mysterious lands into a magical winter wonderland...

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Every year during the Christmas season in Disneyland Paris, Santa Claus takes residence in Frontierland in the old Woodcarvers Workshop. Visitors of the park can go to the Workshop to meet and greet Santa and give him their wish-list for Christmas. Many stories and legends surround this mystical figure and no one really knows where this jol-ly old man really came from, but like so many stories and legends, the legend and histo-ry of Santa has changed a lot over the years into the figure we love today. If you want to believe in the myth more than you want to read about history it is best to turn the page and read another story filled with holiday cheer...

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Saint NicholasThe most common held believe is that the 4th century Greek bishop of Myra Saint Nicholas was the earliest inspiration for a mythical figure that would give gifts to good children and punish the bad chil-dren. In life the Bishop was famous for his generous gifts to the poor. After his death the Bishop was declared a Chris-tian Saint for all the good things he did. Remembered as Saint Nicholas, many mythologized stories emerged about his good deeds. One of the best ones is that he saved a family that was very poor. He threw gold coins down the family’s chim-ney and they landed in the stockings that were hanging to dry in front of the fire.

During the Middle Ages, often on the eve-ning before his name day of 6 December, children were bestowed gifts in his honor. During the Reformation in 16th-17th-cen-tury Europe, many Protestants changed the gift bringer from Saint Nicholas to the Christ Child or Christkindl (corrupted in English to Kris Kringle). Similarly, the date of giving gifts changed from 5 or 6 De-cember to Christmas Eve.

SinterklaasIn the Netherlands and in Belgium the original celebration continued as Saint Nicholas’ Eve, 5 December. It became the chief occasion for gift-giving during the winter holiday season. The evening is called Sinterklaasavond or Pakjesav-ond (“gifts evening”, or literally “packages evening”). With this Dutch custom the gifts are still given by a Christian Bish-op named Sinterklaas, which is a Dutch version of the name Saint Nicholas. This Dutch custom survives in the Nether-lands to this day.

Sinterklaas travels to AmericaDuring the American War of Indepen-dence, the inhabitants of New York City, a former Dutch colonial town (New Am-

sterdam), reinvented their Sinterklaas tra-dition, as Saint Nicholas was a symbol of the city’s non-English past. In the 1770s the New York Gazetteer noted that the feast day of “St. a Claus” would be cele-brated “by the descendants of the ancient Dutch families, with their usual festivi-ties.” The name Santa Claus supposedly derived from older Dutch Sinterklaas..

This reinvented custom almost disap-peared until Washington Irving stared writing down stories and legends of the early Dutch settlers, so while the tradi-tional practice may have died out, Irving’s St. Nicholas may have been a revival of that dormant Dutch strand of folklore. In his 1812 revisions to A History of New York, Irving inserted a dream sequence featuring St. Nicholas soaring over tree-tops in a flying wagon – a creation others would later dress up as Santa Claus.

Irving was not the first to revive the Dutch folklore of Sinterklaas. In New York, two years earlier John Pintard pub-lished a pamphlet with illustrations of Alexander Anderson in which he calls for making Saint Nicholas the patron Saint of New York and starting a Sinter-klaas tradition. He was apparently assist-ed by the Dutch because in his pamphlet he included an old Dutch Sinterklaas poem with an English translation. In the Dutch poem, Saint Nicholas is referred to as ‘Sancta Claus’. Ultimately, his initia-tive helped Sinterklaas to pop up as Santa Claus in the Christmas celebration, which returned – freed of episcopal dignity and ties – via England and later Germany to Europe again.

The Saint Nicholas Society of New York celebrates a feast on 6 December to this day. The town of Rhinebeck in Dutchess County, New York, which was founded by Dutch and German immigrants, has an annual Sinterklaas celebration. It includes Sinterklaas’ crossing the Hudson River

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and then a parade to the center of town.

OdinWhile Saint Nicholas seems to be the main source for Santa Claus, he is not the only one. Other figures from old tradi-tions and religions have attributed their traits to the myth of Saint Nicolas and merged into the modern day Santa Claus. Prior to Christianization, the Germanic peoples (including the English) celebrated a midwinter event called Yule (Old En-glish geola or guili). During this period, su-pernatural and ghostly occurrences were said to increase in frequency, such as the Wild Hunt, a ghostly procession through the sky.

The leader of the wild hunt is frequently attested as the god Odin and he bears the Old Norse names Jólnir, meaning “yule figure” and the name Langbarðr, meaning “long-beard”. The god Odin’s role during the Yuletide period has been theorized as having influenced concepts of St. Nicho-las in a variety of facets, including his long white beard and his gray horse for night-ly rides, which was traded for reindeer in North America. The appearance of Santa Claus or Fa-ther Christmas, whose day is 25th of December, owes much to Odin, the old blue-hooded, cloaked, white-bearded Giftbringer of the north, who rode the midwinter sky on his eight-footed steed Sleipnir, visiting his people with gifts.

Father ChristmasFather Christmas dates back as far as 16th century in England during the reign of Henry VIII, when he was pictured as a large man in green or scarlet robes lined with fur. He typified the spirit of good cheer at Christmas, bringing peace, joy, good food and wine and revelry. As En-gland no longer kept the feast day of Saint Nicholas on 6 December, the Father Christmas celebration was moved to 25

December to coincide with Christmas Day. The Victorian revival of Christmas included Father Christmas as the emblem of ‘good cheer’.

His physical appearance was variable, with one famous image being John Leech’s il-lustration of the “Ghost of Christmas Present” in Charles Dickens’s festive clas-sic A Christmas Carol (1843), as a great genial man in a green coat lined with fur who takes Scrooge through the bustling streets of London on the current Christ-mas morning, sprinkling the essence of Christmas onto the happy populace. Odin, transformed into the English Father Christmas, then Santa Claus, prospered with St Nicholas and the Christchild to become Santa Claus, the leading player on the Christmas stage.

The modern SantaSome modern ideas of Santa Claus seem-ingly became canon after the anonymous publication of the poem “A Visit >From St. Nicholas” (better known today as “The Night Before Christmas”) in the Troy, New York, Sentinel on 23 December 1823. Many of Santa’s modern attributes are es-tablished in this poem, such as riding in a sleigh that lands on the roof, entering through the chimney, and having a bag full of toys. St. Nick is described as be-ing “chubby and plump, a right jolly old elf ” with “a little round belly”, that “shook when he laughed like a bowlful of jelly”. The reindeer were also named: Dasher, Dancer, Prancer, Vixen, Comet, Cupid, Dunder and Blixem (Dunder and Blix-em came from the old Dutch words for thunder and lightning, which were later changed to the more German sounding Donner and Blitzen).

As the years passed, Santa Claus evolved in popular culture into a large, heavyset person. One of the first artists to define Santa Claus’s modern image was Thom-as Nast, an American cartoonist of the

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19th century. In 1863, a picture of Santa illustrated by Nast appeared in Harper’s Weekly. The story that Santa Claus lives at the North Pole may also have been a Nast creation. His Christmas image in the Harper’s issue dated 29 December 1866 was a collage of engravings titled Santa Claus and His Works, which included the caption “Santa Claussville, N.P.

Coca ColaBy the 1930s the features and attributes of Santa Claus that emerged from all these historical influences was pretty much set in stone.

Images of Santa Claus were further pop-ularized through Haddon Sundblom’s de-piction of him for The Coca-Cola Com-pany’s Christmas advertising in the 1930s. The popularity of the image spawned ur-ban legends that Santa Claus was invented by The Coca-Cola Company or that San-ta wears red and white because they are the colors used to promote the Coca-Cola brand.

Historically, Coca-Cola was not the first soft drink company to utilize the modern image of Santa Claus in its advertising—White Rock Beverages had already used a red and white Santa to sell mineral water in 1915 and then in advertisements for its ginger ale in 1923. Earlier still, Santa Claus had appeared dressed in red and white and essentially in his current form on sev-eral covers of Puck magazine in the first few years of the 20th century.

In some images from the early 20th cen-tury, Santa was depicted as personally making his toys by hand in a small work-shop like a craftsman. Eventually, the idea emerged that he had numerous elves re-sponsible for making the toys, but the toys were still handmade by each individ-ual elf working in the traditional manner.

The 1934 song “Santa Claus Is Coming

to Town”, Santa Claus has been believed to make a list of children throughout the world, categorizing them according to their behavior (“naughty” or “nice”) and to deliver presents, including toys, and candy to all of the well-behaved children in the world, and sometimes coal to the naugh-ty children, on the single night of Christ-mas Eve. He accomplishes this feat with the aid of the elves who make the toys in the workshop and the flying reindeer who pull his sleigh.

The Disney ShortWalt Disney produced a Silly Sympho-ny “The Night Before Christmas” in 1933 in a loose adaptation of Clement Clarke Moore’s poem A Visit from St. Nicholas, popularly called The Night Before Christ-mas.

In the animated short a narrator sings the opening stanzas of the classic poem while we see the house at rest. Santa lands on the roof, comes down the chimney, and opens his bag. The toys march out and decorate the tree, with the toy soldiers shooting balls from their cannon, a toy airplane stringing a garland like skywrit-ing, and the toy firemen applying snow. A blimp delivers the star to the top. Mean-while, Santa fills the stockings. His laugh-ter awakens the children, who sneak out. The toys rush to their places, and Santa escapes up the chimney just in time. The closing verse is sung.

History and popular culture gave us the Santa we know and love today. His mes-sage of joy, love and giving is strong. It is perhaps this message that makes Santa such a popular presence in our culture today, for during these festive days the world seems to be a happier place. We like to believe the magic, the message and the fantasy and wait for Saint Nick this com-ing Christmas Eve....

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There’ll be parties for hosting

Marshmallows for toasting

And caroling out in the snow

There’ll be scary ghost stories

And tales of the glories

Of Christmases long, long ago…

The popular Christmas song “It’s the most wonderful time of the year” by Andy Wil-liams is one of those traditional Christ-mas classics that gets played on many ra-dio stations and in many cheerful homes during the Holiday season. Next time you hear the song pay close attention to the lyrics as they tell of a Christmas tradition almost forgotten by most people these days.

TraditionsWhile going through the long list of Christmas traditions that most of us love today it is remarkable how little these traditions have changed over the past 160 years. Most of these traditions were either borrowed from pagan winter festivals or invented by the English during the mid-19th century. People still send Christmas cards, decorate evergreen trees, go door-to-door caroling and stuff stockings with candy. But Christmas, at least as most of the Western world celebrates it today, really is a product of Victorian England with even older roots going back hun-dreds of years.

Ghosts around the fire“Whenever five or six English-speaking people meet round a fire on Christmas Eve, they start telling each other ghost sto-ries,” wrote British humorist Jerome K. as part of his introduction to an anthology of Christmas ghost stories titled “Told Af-ter Supper“ in 1891.

“Nothing satisf ies us on Christmas Eve

but to hear each other tell authentic anec-

dotes about specters.”

During the Victorian era this was as much a Christmas tradition as the Goose on your table or Santa Claus visiting your house on Christmas Eve. Traces of this now-forgotten tradition occasionally ap-pear in noticeable places at Christmas-time, although its significance is generally overlooked.

A Christmas CarolOne of the all-time Christmas Classic is Charles Dickens “A Christmas Carol “. A story about greed, redemption and the Christmas Spirit. But at the center of this Yuletide favorite lies a spooky tale of visit-ing specters, hauntings and a descent into Hell itself.

It was the popularity of Charles Dickens “A Christmas Carol” that brought back a common interest in the celebration of the Yuletide season in 1843. It was also the same year the first commercially pro-duced Christmas card was sent.

Some argue that Dickens’ Christmas ghost story single-handedly saved the winter holiday from dying out during the Indus-trial Revolution. At a time when England was no longer celebrating Christmas, Dickens reintroduced many centuries-old traditions with his instant holiday classic. It has become so much a part of Christ-mas in its various film adaptations and theatrical versions that people don’t even wonder why Dickens chose, of all things, four spectral visitors to bring about Ebenezer Scrooge’s transformation from miserly curmudgeon to selfless philan-thropist.

Victorian ObsessionsIsn’t there something inherently unsea-sonal about ghosts? Don’t ghosts belong with all the ghouls and goblins of Hal-loween? Not so for Victorian England. Christmas has long been associated with ghosts. Just before Christmas 1642, for in-

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stance, shepherds were said to have seen ghostly soldiers battling in the skies. This connection continued in the Victorian era. Despite their stiff exterior demeanor the Victorians were a bunch of thrill seek-ers and had a keen interest in anything supernatural. Ghosts proliferated most ob-viously in fiction – as well as on stage, in photographs and in drawing room séanc-es.

During those days lighting was provided by gas lamps. The spooky atmosphere of the gaslights and the smell from the gas have been implicated in a renewed inter-est in the ghost story. In those dark dim-ly lit rooms with flickering light people would see things in the shadows. The car-bon monoxide would cause people to ac-tually see ghosts and by the middle of the 19th century there was a preponderance of people encountering ghosts in their dai-ly life. Coupled with crazes for esoteric subjects such as spiritualism, ritual magic

and all things Egyptian, it is hardly sur-prising that this was a golden age for su-pernatural and weird fiction.

In a society that almost obsessed over all things supernatural it is not hard to see why Dickens “A Christmas Carol” became so successful. There were ghosts in the ether, under the bed, and more and more, in people’s heads. Many have claimed that the author forged a link between Christ-mas and the tradition of telling ghost stories by the fire. Dickens took many old traditions and poured them into one festive Christmas experience, but telling strange tales of the supernatural around the Yule hearth did indeed exist well be-fore Mr. Dickens enshrined it in the Vic-torian Christmas.

Ancient rootsThat the tradition of sitting around the fire and telling ghost stories at Christmas

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Crayon, Gent., 1819, Washington Irving

The rest of Irving’s Sketch Book is too of-ten forgotten, as it’s best known for the short story contained within, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, forever associated with Halloween. But Washington Irving does show that the Christmas Eve ghost story wasn’t purely an invention of Dickens.In his story, The Christmas Tree (1859), in a section often collected separately as Tell-ing Winter Stories, ironically enough Mr. Dickens himself gives us a clue to how many Christmases ago the tradition can be traced with certainty.

“There is probably a smell of roasted

chestnuts and other good comfortable things

all the time, for we are telling Winter Sto-

ries - Ghost Stories, or more shame for us

- round the Christmas f ire.”

The clue lies in the use of the term Win-

Eve predates the Victorian era is obvious from the works of Washington Irving. The references in his work predate Queen Vic-toria’s reign on the throne of England by nearly two decades.

“When I returned to the drawing-room,

I found the company seated around the

f ire, listening to the parson, who was deep-

ly ensconced in a high-backed oaken chair,

the work of some cunning artif icer of yore,

which had been brought from the library

for his particular accommodation. From

this venerable piece of furniture, with which

his shadowy f igure and dark weazen face

so admirably accorded, he was dealing forth

strange accounts of popular superstitions

and legends of the surrounding country,

with which he had become acquainted in

the course of his antiquarian researches.”

Old Christmas, From The Sketch Book of Geoffrey

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ter Stories. A “Winter Story” refers to a fantastical story and this term was in us-age centuries before Dickens wrote his classic tale. For example, a 17th century philosopher Joesph Glanvill, in his most famous work, the treatise on witchcraft Sadducismus Truimphatus (1681) had harsh words for those who dismissed the existence of unearthly powers as “mere Winter Tales, or Old Wives fables”.

Even further back, the term was around in William Shakespeare’s time. And this is why he titled his strange fable of mag-ic and transformations, A Winter’s Tale (1623). Shakespeare even has one of his characters in A Winter’s Tale make the ti-tle’s meaning clear, with Prince Mamillius proposing to tell the court a story.

“A sad tale’s best for winter. I have one

of sprites and goblins...”

So then we can definitely date the tell-ing of ghost stories as a popular winter past-time to the 16th century. And it seems a safe assumption that the spinning of such winter’s tales was a popular part of the Elizabethan Christ-mas festivities. These me-dieval fes- ti-vals cele-brat- ed the death of light and

its subsequent rebirth the following day. In addition to being the longest night of the year, winter solstice was also tradition-ally held to be the most haunted due to its association with the death of the sun and light. It was the one night of the year when the barrier between the worlds of the living and the deceased was thinnest. So this is how, on Christmas Eve, ghosts could walk the earth and finish unsettled business. In short, the Victorian Christ-mas celebration, which drew heavily on pagan symbols like yule logs, holly berries and Father Christmas himself, also em-braced the winter holiday’s associations with the supernatural to create one of its most popular annual traditions.

So, next Christmas Eve, curl up by the fire and tell a Victorian ghost story to your friends. But don’t be alarmed by the creaking of the floorboards, the murmurs in the basement or the howling of a lone-ly dog out in the cold. Try not to be per-

turbed by the flickering candle, the fleeting shadows, the horned,

hairy hand that appears at your elbow.Stay calm and breathe deeply, for the ghosts of Christmas Past are gath-

ering.

Merry

Christmas –

and sleep

tight.

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moking ishop“...we will discuss your affairs this very afternoon, over a

Christmas bowl of Smoking Bishop, Bob! ”

—Ebeneezer Scrooge

Mulled wine is popular in England (and, more recently, in the United States) at Christmas and throughout winter. One Victorian recipe was Smok-

ing Bishop. Mulled cider and sometimes ale is also served, with a mulled apple juice as a non alcoholic alternative.

During the cold Christmas season in Disneyland Paris it is sometimes hard to get warm again after a magical day in the parks. One could go for a cup of hot chocolate or coffee at Starbucks at Disney Village, but we have fond memories of getting a cup of mulled wine, or as it’s called at Disneyland, hot glühwein at one of the Christmas stands in the Village. After a few sips of

this hot brew of spices, sugar, citrus, wine, and booze, We’d be revitalized enough to push on

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punch recipe is great for fireside sipping and can be kept warm in a slow

cooker to serve at your next holiday party.

This year glühwein got introduced at the Disney Ho-tels. We got our first glühwein this year at Cafe Fantasia

in the Disneyland Hotel and were pleasantly surprised. An already tasty beverage had gotten even better because they added one special magical ingredient. You can follow our recipe and substitute the sugar with Maple Syrup to get the same effect.

Ingredients• 2 medium lemons• 2 medium oranges• 10 whole cloves• 5 cardamom pods• 1 1/4 cups granulated sugar

• 1 1/4 cups water• 2 (3-inch) cinnamon sticks• 2 (750-milliliter) bottles dry red wine, such as Cab-ernet Sauvignon or Beaujolais Nouveau• 1/2 cup brandy (or port if you want Smoking Bishop)• Cheesecloth• Butcher’s twine

Instructions1. Using a vegetable peeler, remove the zest from

the lemons and oranges in wide strips, avoiding the white pith; place the zest in a large sauce-

pan. Juice the lemons and oranges and add the juice to the pan.

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2. Place the cloves and carda-mom in a small piece of cheesecloth, tie it

tightly with butcher’s twine, and add the bun-dle to the saucepan.

3. Add the sugar, water, and cinnamon sticks, place the pan over high heat, and bring to a simmer, stirring to dissolve the sugar. Reduce the heat to low and continue to simmer, stirring occasionally, until the mixture is reduced by about one-third, about 20 minutes.

4. Add the red wine and brandy, stir to combine, and bring just to a simmer (don’t let it boil). Remove from the heat and remove and discard the spice bundle be-fore serving.

Come and share a heartwarming moment

around a cup of mulled wine!

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Bistrot Chez Rémy is the new wonder-fully themed restaurant in the Walt Dis-ney Studios. After you exit ‘ Ratatouille: L’Aventure Totalement Toquée de Rémy’ you might feel a bit hungry and here you can try Chef Remy’s famous rata-touille yourself. You won’t find any char-acters here because this first table ser-vice restaurant in the studios is aimed at guests who just want to have a good meal and return to the park in under forty five minutes.

Make a reservation and prepare to be shrunk to the size of a rat. This culinary adventure starts in the waiting room that’s filled with many of the bistrot’s trophies. Give the ticket you received at the front desk to one of the cast members behind the second desk and soon you will be shown to your table. The only comment we have would be that we miss an optical illusion that would tru-ly make you feel like shrinking down to Remy’s size upon entering the restaurant.

DecorationsThe restaurant is decorated with huge kitchen utensils, plates and paper cock-tail umbrellas to give you a rat’s eye view. The tables are made from tea , coffee and spice cans and jam jar lids, the chairs are bottle caps and champagne corks. The music of ‘Ratatouille’ contributes to a cozy warm atmosphere. The restaurant is divided into different areas, the first area is under a giant colander, on your right is a section with giant bottles of red wine with a view of Place de Rémy and the middle section features booths that are di-vided by giant plates and at the end of it the giant window that overlooks the rides unloading area.

Despite it was pretty busy everything looked clean and under perfect control and we were seated on the left side of the restaurant.

The foodWe ordered a starter and a main course.For starters we had the Foie Gras de Ca-nard. The waitress however brought us a Mixed Leaf Salad with Cheese and when we told her this was not what we ordered she told us the foie gras was not part of the menu and we had to stick with it. Of course we didn’t accept this. With some hesitation she apologized and a bit later than expect-ed brought our foie gras de Canard, a sim-ple and typically French dish that was just fine and to some extent, made up for the little hiccup. The slightly burned toast that one of us got, shouldn’t have left the kitchen and a bit more caramelized union would have been nice to go with the foie gras.

RatatouilleThe main course was grilled beef and, of course, Ratatouille. The Dutch beef was cooked perfectly, the garniture a bit unin-spired and we wonder why the dishes are not served on small versions of the plates the restaurant is decorated with. The Ratatouille looked much better than we expected, we had seen pictures of a less artistic dish. The new version not only tasted great but looked beautiful and was really well prepared, a true signature dish! The beer we ordered matched per-fectly but next time, yes there will be a next time, we may order a glass of ‘Cuvée Bistrot Chez Rémy’.

First impressionsThe restaurant looks absolutely stunning and is perfect for a quick bite but there is room for improvement. Service in France can be the best in the world but malheu-reusement, on many occasions it is some-thing Parisiens are not very familiar with and some act as if their ego is more im-portant than a guest’s well-being.

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A simple “s’il vous plaît” and a smile can work miracles but many have not discov-ered this form of practical magic. Under-standably hospitality industry can be very busy and it is not always easy to work under pressure. In a Disney park however, you do not expect discussions on weather a dish is or is not on the menu when obvi-ously it is.

Bistrot Chez Rémy is the only table ser-vice restaurant in the Walt Disney Stu-dios and we think it really has potential. Just a little more attention to detail

and this place could become one of Walt Disney Studios’

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A big part of the Christmas experience is the singing of seasonal songs and carols. Carol singing is perhaps one of the most magical parts of Christmas. It brings peo-ple together and there’s just something very special about the distant sounds of “Silent Night” in the snow.

As with most of our Christmas traditions, the singing of carols is rooted in very old pagan traditions. In fact the very word carol means to dance or sing of praise and joy to something. The first Carols were sung in Europe thousands of years ago during the Winter Solstice celebra-tions as people danced around stone cir-cles.

Carols used to be written and sung around the important celestial dates of the four seasons of the old pagan religions. The celebration of the Winter Solstice be-ing the shortest day of the year. Although the pagan celebrations took place during all four seasons, only the winter celebra-tion has survived - not as a pagan celebra-tion of season; but as the Christian cele-bration of Christmas.

With the Christianization of Europe the pagan solstice celebrations were adapt-ed into Christianity and slowly Christian songs were sung instead of pagan ones at the solstice.

In AD 129, a Roman Bishop said that a song called “Angel’s Hymn” should be sung at a Christmas service in Rome. Another famous early Christmas Hymn was written in 760AD, by Comas of Jeru-salem, for the Greek Orthodox Church. The majority of the first Christmas Car-ols were written in Latin, which was un-derstood only by members of the elite churched few. Because of this, the entire tradition of Christmas nearly died out by the middle ages as a result!

This was until, in 1223, St. Francis of As-

sisi started his nativity plays in Italy. In the plays songs, or “canticles” were used to explain the narrative of the plays. Some-times, the choruses of these new carols were in Latin; but normally they were all in a language that the people watch-ing the play could understand and join in! Most of these new Carols were not based strictly on Scripture, but were sim-ply light-hearted stories, sung by travel-ing minstrels and changed from town to town to fit the desires of various commu-nities. The words were changed for the local people wherever they traveled. One carol that changed like this is ‘I Saw Three Ships’. These Carols were rarely sung in church. Instead, the music resounded from the streets, and in the homes. The new carols spread to France, Spain, Ger-many and other European countries.

Because the Carols were not strictly Scrip-tural, and not written in Latin, there were those who considered them inappropriate. In 1647, Oliver Cromwell and the Puri-tans ruled England. They banned Christ-mas carols all together. The celebration of Christmas and the singing of Carols disap-peared from church services completely. The joy of Christmas and its music how-ever, survived. People carried on singing them in secret. The secret was kept safe until Victorian times when two men, Wil-liam Sandys and Davis Gilbert, published a collection of Christmas songs, old and new which they collected from various villages in England.

With the renewed popularity of the Christmas celebrations after the publi-cation of “A Christmas Carol”, many or-chestras and choirs were being set up in the cities of England and people wanted Christmas songs to sing, so carols once again became popular. Many new carols, such as ‘Good King Wenceslas’, were writ-ten in the Victorian period.

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ular. There were sometimes official carol singers called ‘Waits’. These were bands of people led by important local leaders who had the only power in the towns and vil-lages to take money from the people. If you happened to be singing without a local leader for money, you risked jail time for begging. The singers were called ‘Waits’ because they only sang on Christmas Eve. This was sometimes known as ‘watch night’ or ‘wait night’ because of the shepherds were watching their sheep when the angels ap-peared to them.

In honor of the angels announcement to the shepherds and of the star leading the wise men, the custom of lighting candles while singing on Christmas Eve was insti-tuted. This custom remains popular today and is often referred to as the Candlelight Service.

The joy of the carols spread through-out Europe (and eventually to the New World). Old and new traditions of Christ-mas trees and holly wreaths; presents and stockings were freely celebrated, and elaborated upon. Carols by Candlelight services are held in countries all over the world. And although many of the tradi-tions may have lost their original mean-ing, it is the Christmas spirit of giving that prevails. Most everyone knows that Christmas time is somehow different from all the other seasons.

The songs that were once quieted now sound freely throughout much of the world and is enjoyed by most people re-gardless of their spiritual convictions. No matter what style of music a person may choose to enjoy the rest of the year, the traditional Christmas Carol breaks through the musical preferences and bar-riers, to be universally recognized as the most beloved music of all people; of all times.

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Last year “Disney Dreams of Christmas” blew us away. We even booked a new visit be-fore the end of last year’s Christmas season just to see that show again. This year sadly, was different. This year “Dreams of Christmas” is still a great show and if you haven’t seen it, you really should, but there were some pro’s and quite a few con’s compared to last years show.

The start of the show with the little music box that slowly opens the show is an awe-some enhancement. We loved it and it certainly gets you in the Christmas mood right away. We loved that they kept the Mary Blair sequence. It’s a sequence without any

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fireworks, but it has heart, feeling and as an homage to one of Disney’s greats we would have felt gutted if this sequence would have been axed. But then there’s a Frozen sequence, and another Frozen se-quence and another and another.

Frozen is great, we love the movie, the songs, the artwork and we couldn’t be happier with the success that Disney has with the movie, but this was too much.While last year’s show was a continuous stream of scene’s that gave you that Holi-day feeling, Olaf ’s solo “In Summer” took you out of the moment this year and felt like an interlude. Perhaps “Do you wan-na build a snowman” would have been a better choice now Frozen is high on the wish-list of Disneyland Paris.

This year’s sequence for “Let it go“ was a big improvement on last years rendi-tion of the song. The impressive fire-works during “Let it go“ really enhanced

the song and it was great to see a sense of connection in the crowd every evening the sequence started. Sadly this was the only sequence this year that happened. It was this sense of connection that was so strong during last years Sing-A-long when everybody joined in. This sense of connectedness is what made Dreams of Christmas so unique.

Also the Toy Story sequence was drasti-cally cut short. One of the best parts last year were the fireworks that blasted into the sky on cue on Toy’s Stories Nutcrack-er and Disney Dreams of Christmas an-them “Make a wish that will last forever“. There were much less fireworks this year and no timed blasts which felt so awe-some last year. In all, the show felt a bit cheaper because of this. Perhaps next year the best of both shows will bring us an ul-timate “Disney Dreams of Christmas“ fit for the Holiday season.

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When thinking about what a retro futuristic Santa would bring us for our Discovery-land article this issue it was very difficult to find a suitable subject. A Christmas con-nection to Jules Verne proved equally hard to find. In the end Then I remembered my childhood and how I spend many Christmases listening to a very particular and per-haps peculiar Christmas Album. And as usual my mind wandered off to many Christ-mases long, long ago in a galaxy far, far away….

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Disco SuccessThe year was 1980, Star Wars was a big hit and had penetrated most if not all of popular culture. Meco had released his highly successful Star Wars disco album and kids played with the toys they got from Father Christmas. Meco Monardo and his producing partner Tony Bongiovi (recognize that last name?), were looking for a follow-up to their 2,5 million single and 2 million album success album “Star Wars and other Galactic Funk”. With the approval of George Lucas they de-cided to make a Christmas album. They hired Maury Yeston (who would become a highly successful Broadway composer), to write the songs. Before Maury started writing for Meco he suggested that they should have a story that would link all the songs on the album. You can’t just go and say, give us something that has to do with Star Wars and Christmas and unify it.

ProductionNow Christmas in the world of Star Wars means, Christmas in a galaxy far, far away, thousands of years ago. The best celebra-tion in that galaxy until that point was Life Day on the Wookie home world from the infamous Star Wars Holiday Special. They agreed that it wouldn’t be a Christmas album if they didn’t celebrate Christmas, so R2-D2 and C-3PO and all the characters are celebrating Christmas in a galaxy far, far away, in a time long, long ago. They even discussed if the char-acters would know Santa Claus, or maybe Santa’s cousin. Aimed at youngsters, the album could afford not to be too seri-ous and be on the same level as perhaps Sesame Street. The story was ultimate-ly locked and they settled on the title “Christmas in the Stars”. Yeston started writing the songs in the fall of 1980. The album was slated for November via RSO records and be available for the Christmas season.

The story takes place in a droid factory where the robots make toys year-round for S. Claus. But they don’t quite know what to make of Christmas until the com-edy duo of droids, C-3PO and R2-D2 help explain it all. In the process, Artoo learns how to sing, or rather, whistle, to the Christmas song “Sleigh Ride”.

Yeston started writing the songs with the opening number “Christmas in the Stars” and continued writing with his story in mind. R2 and 3PO would discuss Christ-mas, sing songs while making the toys for Santa instead of Santa’s elves. Yeston also wondered what Christmas is really about and wrote “The meaning of Christmas” for Yoda. For who else but the 900 year old Jedi master could tell us about the meaning of things. The results are whim-sical, fun, entertaining and sometimes sil-ly.

Yeston also wanted to integrate all of the characters he loved, Princess Leia and Han Solo and of course the Wookiee who was basically a teddy bear. Especial-ly to an eight-year-old. Since the plot is that the droids are making toys for every-body, He wrote the intro: a scarf for Sky-walker, something else for Princess Leia, but what do we get the Wookiee? So he wrote “What Can You Get a Wookiee For

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Christmas (If He Already Owns a Comb)”. What do you get a Wookiee when he already owns a comb? The answer, of course, is a brush.

Humble beginnings for a superstarBecause of the success of the Star Wars disco album and royalties also went to John Williams and George Lucas, Meco and company were in good favor with George. They arranged for Anthony Dan-iels to fly in from England and do the voices and sing (who thought 3PO could sing). Chewbacca, Mark Hamill, Carrie Fisher and Harrison Ford were also con-sidered, but ultimately it was decided that their characters singing would not be the best choice (I guess they didn’t see Prin-cess Leia sing to the Wookies on Life Day).Another contributor to the album of note was the then unknown cousin of Tony Bongiovi, John. Tony’s cousin was an as-piring singer at the time and was sweep-ing the floors at Tony’s and Meco’s studio. Tony had been unsuccessfully trying to get John a deal with CBS records. In or-der to increase John’s changes of locking in a deal with a record company Tony decided to let John sing on the Star Wars album. John sang the lead on one of Me-

co’s songs (not all songs were written by Yeston), “R2-D2 we wish you a merry Christmas”. So when you put the album on this Christmas and listen to “R2-D2 we wish you a merry Christmas”, you’re listening to the very first recording of Jon Bon Jovi. It was only years later that Tony was able to get John entered on a band contest on a radio station and the rest is history.

Yoda Hick-upProblems arose with the song “The Mean-ing of Christmas”. Meco just got word that Frank Oz wouldn’t be able to do Yoda on the album because of other com-mitments in London. Also George Lucas, who up until then was very supportive of the album, voiced his concern to the song. George has serious concerns about any mixture of the metaphor of the Force with Christianity. He did not want to in-termingle the message of the Force with Christianity and the project was almost canceled because of this. With the proj-ect on hold, Yeston rewrote the lyrics of “The meaning of Christmas” into a more whimsical version more in tune with the album and the project was back on.

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McQuarrie artworkThe final cover for the album would fea-ture artwork by Star Wars artist Ralph McQuarrie who basically designed most of the look of the Star Wars universe for the original trilogy. In fact, McQuarrie already linked Star Wars and Christmas when he painted the Lucasfilm Christmas card in 1978 featuring C-3PO and R2-D2 shopping for Christmas. In 1979 McQuar-rie painted another Christmas card for Lucasfilm with 3PO dressed as Santa and R2-D2 as Rudolf in front of a Christmas fire. The 1980 Christmas card featured the same artwork that was used for “Christ-mas in the Stars” with C-3PO and R2-D2 standing with Santa in Santa’s work-shop. My personal favorite is the 1981 card which featured Yoda dressed up as Santa which was made into an action figure in 2003.

“Christmas in the Stars” was released by RSO records on LP and Cassette in No-vember 1980. Also in 1980, RSO released a 45 of “What Can You Get a Wookiee for Christmas (When He Already Owns a Comb)” (credited to The Star Wars In-tergalactic Droid Choir and Chorale) b/w “R2-D2 We Wish You a

Merry Christmas” with a picture sleeve. The album was one of the industry’s first non-classical-or-jazz projects to be record-ed and mixed digitally, and “What Can You Get a Wookiee for Christmas (When He Already Owns a Comb)” it was only the third digitally recorded single in chart history.

Two days after the album was released RSO closed their doors. They were threat-ened with some lawsuit and decided it would be better to just close their busi-ness. At that time there was only a first printing of “Christmas in the Stars” of 150.000 pieces. There was no promotion for the album as a result, but in spite of these major setbacks “What can you get a Wookie for Christmas” shot to number 69 of the Billboard top 100. These days the album is infamous for it’s silly songs, but there are enough Star Wars fans (ourselves included) that take the album out it’s sleeve to enjoy each and every Christmas.The album features 9 songs, but Yeston and company wrote a lot more that got cut from the final release. The masters of all the materials for the album remained with RSO and it is unclear what became of the other demo’s and songs. Perhaps they are with an unknown party who picked up RSO’s catalogue, but some-where out there, there are lost Star Wars sound recordings....

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Chante, Cést Noël! No better place to celebrate than Disneyland Paris with the one(s) you love! This year’s Christmas Parade is awesome, Disney Dreams of Christmas the perfect way to end a festive day before you have a Vin Chaud in your hotel bar. The Christmas Season is popular so it can be quite busy in the parks and you may want to avoid the weekends. If you do not care for a Dis-ney Christmas (if that ‘s even possible) and want to have the parks vir-tually for yourself, just plan your visit after the seventh of January2015 that’s when the Christmas magic is gone.

When you decide to visit the parks in January keep in mind the follow-ing attractions will be closed for renovation; Casey Jr.,Le Pays des Contes de Fées,Captain EO, Autopia, Les Mystères du Nautilus, Thunder Mesa Riverboat Landing, Crush’s Coaster and Studio Tram Tour. For exact dates always check the official Disneyland Paris website.

Another major renovation will start on the twelfth of January. Space Mountain: Mission 2 will be closed for six months, we con-

sider this just enough time to install new trains,a new Inter-stellar Walkway, restore the Columbiad back to it’s former glory, #BringBackTheMoon and a return of Steve Bramson’s glorious soundtrack. At least that’s what’s on our 2015 wish-list for Space Mountain. Your very last chance to experience Mission Two will be on Sunday January 11.

Remember to keep up the Disney Christmas Spirit for the rest of the year, smile, keep the parks clean and be polite to each other.

Have a magical Christmas and a Happy New Disney Year!

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Tomart Merchandise History of DISNEYANAThis is the most definitive history of 1930s Disney merchandise ever written. It provides information on each licensee, the years licensed, and pictures the items made. Nearly 5,000 color photographs. There are also histories of the two outside companies The George Borgfeldt Compa-ny and Kay Kamen, Ltd. Disney used to license its characters during this period. It tells how the Kamen approach to making Mickey & Friends so appealing it set the standard for intellectual property licens-ing still in use today. Tomart merchandise History of DISNEYANA provides back-ground not available on the internet or in any other printed volume. The 176 page 8-1/2 x 11 hardbound val-ue guide helps collectors and researchers make sense of this vast collection field in an easy to use format. Indexes to find manufacturers by name and a second to

find product types are provided.Hardcover: 176 pagesPublisher: Tomart Pubns; 1st edition (November 25, 2014)Language: EnglishISBN-10: 0914293656ISBN-13: 978-0914293651

Disneyland Paris Joyeux Noel Side PlateServe up a mince pie or two with our festive side plate! The Disneyland Par-is design features Mickey and Minnie as gingerbread men, along with the lettering ‘Joyeux Noel’.•Disneyland Paris side plate•Festive design•Letterng reads ‘Joyeux Noel’•Artwork of Mickey and Minnie ginger-bread men and snowflakes•Made from stoneware•H14 x L29.5cm approx •Suitable for dishwasher and microwave use•Created for Disneyland Paris and online

Disneyland Paris Dreams Olaf PinThis Dreams Olaf pin celebrates Disney-land Paris’s night-time show. Elsa appears

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in an icy design within the outline of the resort’s castle, beside a figure of the lov-able snowman from Frozen.

•Collectible Disneyland Paris pin•Celebrates the ‘Disney Dreams!’ light, fire-work and fountain show•Official pin trading back stamp •Artwork of Olaf and Elsa in the enchant-ed castle•Regular hard enamel fill•Silver effect edging

Ratatouille The Adventure Mug And Spoon

Stir some Disneyland Paris magic into hot drinks with our Ratatouille The Adven-ture mug. It features logos from the new attraction, and has a slot in the handle to hold the matching stoneware spoon.

•Stoneware mug•Inspired by the new Ratatouille the Ad-venture attraction•Logos on on each side•Blue interior glaze•Includes a stoneware spoon which slots into the mug handle•H10 x Dia.8cm approx•Suitable for microwave and dishwasher use•Created for Disneyland Paris and online

Disneyland Paris 2015 Logo Men’s Blue T-Shirt

Take home a tee that will be bursting with fun all year long. Our Disneyland Paris 2015 logo men’s T-shirt dazzles with print-ed artwork of Mickey Mouse and friends above a large ‘2015’.•Adult’s T-shirt •Large transfer print character design•Goofy, Mickey Mouse Donald Duck and Pluto around a large ‘2015’ motif •Disneyland Paris resort logo •100% cotton •Machine washable •Created for Disneyland Paris and online

Mickey Mouse Steamboat Willie FigurineThis resin Mickey Mouse Steamboat Wil-lie figurine is a charming reminder of

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where it all began for the Disney super-star, as it celebrates his first screen ap-pearance in 1928.

•Collectible resin figurine•Part of the Sketchbook Collection•Depicts one of the ‘moments that made Disney’•A new ornament released each month•Shows Mickey Mouse from his first ap-pearance in ‘Steamboat Willie’•Circular base with raised ‘1928’

Elsa Singing Decoration

No festive winter wonderland would be complete without the Snow Queen. On this Elsa singing decoration, she’s stand-

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ing on her icy balcony and sings ‘Let It Go’ with a press of the button.•Character decoration •Part of the 2014 Sketchbook Ornament Collection •Elsa standing on the balcony of her ice castle•Glittery detail on dress•Button on the reverse plays ‘Let It Go’•Hanging ribbon

Peter Pan Sketchbook OrnamentForever young

Soar to the heart of the holidays with the boy who never grew up, Peter Pan. This fully sculptured ornament, direct from Never Land, will create lasting memories for kids of all ages!•Fully sculptured figural ornament•Hand painted•Freestanding for desk or tree display•Translucent ‘’lagoon’’ base

Mickey and Minnie Mouse Tapestry Woven Throw - HolidayWish your guests the warmest of sea-son’s greetings with this soft tapestry wo-ven throw blanket. Featuring Mickey and Minnie Mouse dressed in their retro-San-

ta best, it’s part of the Disney Parks Holi-day for Your Home Collection.

•Soft woven fabric•Detailed art featuring Santa Mickey and Minnie•’’Happy Holidays’’ greeting•Fringed trim•Part of the Disney Parks Holiday for Your Home Collection

Tinker Bell Holiday Pillow

Naughty or Nice?

Tinker Bell poses a question on this Hol-iday Pillow. Dressed for Christmas in her Santa outfit, the tinkering pixie asks whether you think she’s ‘’Naughty or Nice?’’ on this retro-style pillow that will be a timeless treasure.

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The trouble with Harrowby Hall was that it was haunted, and, what wasworse, the ghost did not content itself with merely appearing at thebedside of the afflicted person who saw it, but persisted in remainingthere for one mortal hour before it would disappear.

It never appeared except on Christmas Eve, and then as the clock wasstriking twelve, in which respect alone was it lacking in that originalitywhich in these days is a _sine qua non_ of success in spectral life. Theowners of Harrowby Hall had done their utmost to rid themselves of thedamp and dewy lady who rose up out of the best bedroom floor at midnight,but without avail. They had tried stopping the clock, so that the ghostwould not know when it was midnight; but she made her appearance just thesame, with that fearful miasmatic person-

ality of hers, and there she wouldstand until everything about her was thor-oughly saturated.

Then the owners of Harrowby Hall calked up every crack in the floor withthe very best quality of hemp, and over this was placed layers of tar andcanvas; the walls were made water-proof, and the doors and windowslikewise, the proprietors having conceived the notion that the unexorcisedlady would find it difficult to leak into the room after these precautionshad been taken; but even this did not suf-fice. The following Christmas Eveshe appeared as promptly as before, and frightened the occupant of theroom quite out of his senses by sitting down alongside of him and gazingwith her cavernous blue eyes into his; and he noticed, too, that in herlong, aqueously bony fingers bits of drip-ping sea-weed were entwined, the

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ends hanging down, and these ends she drew across his forehead until hebecame like one insane. And then he swooned away, and was foundunconscious in his bed the next morning by his host, simply saturated withsea-water and fright, from the combined effects of which he neverrecovered, dying four years later of pneu-monia and nervous prostration atthe age of seventy-eight.

The next year the master of Harrowby Hall decided not to have the bestspare bedroom opened at all, thinking that perhaps the ghost’s thirst formaking herself disagreeable would be sat-isfied by haunting the furniture,but the plan was as unavailing as the many that had preceded it.

The ghost appeared as usual in the room--that is, it was supposed she did,for the hangings were dripping wet the next morning, and in the parlorbelow the haunted room a great damp spot appeared on the ceiling. Findingno one there, she immediately set out to learn the reason why, and shechose none other to haunt than the own-er of the Harrowby himself. Shefound him in his own cosey room drink-ing whiskey--whiskey undiluted--andfelicitating himself upon having foiled her ghostship, when all of asudden the curl went out of his hair, his whiskey bottle filled andoverflowed, and he was himself in a con-dition similar to that of a man whohas fallen into a water-butt. When he re-covered from the shock, which wasa painful one, he saw before him the lady of the cavernous eyes andsea-weed fingers. The sight was so unex-pected and so terrifying that hefainted, but immediately came to, because of the vast amount of water inhis hair, which, trickling down over his face, restored his consciousness.

Now it so happened that the master of Harrowby was a brave man, and whilehe was not particularly fond of interview-ing ghosts, especially suchquenching ghosts as the one before him, he was not to be daunted by anapparition. He had paid the lady the com-pliment of fainting from theeffects of his first surprise, and now that he had come to he intended tofind out a few things he felt he had a right to know. He would have likedto put on a dry suit of clothes first, but the apparition declined toleave him for an instant until her hour was up, and he was forced to denyhimself that pleasure. Every time he would move she would follow him, withthe result that everything she came in contact with got a ducking. In aneffort to warm himself up he approached the fire, an unfortunate move asit turned out, because it brought the ghost directly over the fire, whichimmediately was extinguished. The whis-key became utterly valueless as acomforter to his chilled system, because it was by this time diluted to aproportion of ninety per cent of water. The only thing he could do to wardoff the evil effects of his encounter he did, and that was to swallow tentwo-grain quinine pills, which he managed to put into his mouth before theghost had time to interfere. Having done this, he turned with someasperity to the ghost, and said:

“Far be it from me to be impolite to a woman, madam, but I’m hanged if itwouldn’t please me better if you’d stop these infernal visits of yours tothis house. Go sit out on the lake, if you like that sort of thing; soakthe water-butt, if you wish; but do not, I implore you, come into agentleman’s house and saturate him and his possessions in this way. It isdamned disagreeable.”

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“Henry Hartwick Oglethorpe,” said the ghost, in a gurgling voice, “youdon’t know what you are talking about.”

“Madam,” returned the unhappy house-holder, “I wish that remark werestrictly truthful. I was talking about you. It would be shillings andpence--nay, pounds, in my pocket, madam, if I did not know you.”

“That is a bit of specious nonsense,” re-turned the ghost, throwing a quartof indignation into the face of the master of Harrowby. “It may rank highas repartee, but as a comment upon my statement that you do not know whatyou are talking about, it savors of irrele-vant impertinence. You do notknow that I am compelled to haunt this place year after year by inexorablefate. It is no pleasure to me to enter this house, and ruin and mildeweverything I touch. I never aspired to be a shower-bath, but it is mydoom. Do you know who I am?”

“No, I don’t,” returned the master of Har-rowby. “I should say you were theLady of the Lake, or Little Sallie Waters.”

“You are a witty man for your years,” said the ghost.

“Well, my humor is drier than yours ever will be,” returned the master.

“No doubt. I’m never dry. I am the Water Ghost of Harrowby Hall, anddryness is a quality entirely beyond my wildest hope. I have been theincumbent of this highly unpleasant of-fice for two hundred yearsto-night.”

“How the deuce did you ever come to get elected?” asked the master.

“Through a suicide,” replied the spectre. “I

am the ghost of that fairmaiden whose picture hangs over the mantel-piece in the drawing-room. Ishould have been your great-great-great-great-great-aunt if I had lived,Henry Hartwick Oglethorpe, for I was the own sister of yourgreat-great-great-great-grandfather.”

“But what induced you to get this house into such a predicament?”

“I was not to blame, sir,” returned the lady. “It was my father’s fault.He it was who built Harrowby Hall, and the haunted chamber was to havebeen mine. My father had it furnished in pink and yellow, knowing wellthat blue and gray formed the only com-bination of color I could tolerate.He did it merely to spite me, and, with what I deem a proper spirit, Ideclined to live in the room; whereupon my father said I could live thereor on the lawn, he didn’t care which. That night I ran from the house andjumped over the cliff into the sea.”

“That was rash,” said the master of Har-rowby.

“So I’ve heard,” returned the ghost. “If I had known what the consequenceswere to be I should not have jumped; but I really never realized what Iwas doing until after I was drowned. I had been drowned a week when asea-nymph came to me and informed me that I was to be one of her followersforever afterwards, adding that it should be my doom to haunt HarrowbyHall for one hour every Christmas Eve throughout the rest of eternity. Iwas to haunt that room on such Christ-mas Eves as I found it inhabited; andif it should turn out not to be inhabited, I was and am to spend theallotted hour with the head of the house.”

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“I’ll sell the place.”

“That you cannot do, for it is also required of me that I shall appear asthe deeds are to be delivered to any pur-chaser, and divulge to him theawful secret of the house.”

“Do you mean to tell me that on every Christmas Eve that I don’t happen tohave somebody in that guest-chamber, you are going to haunt me wherever Imay be, ruining my whiskey, taking all the curl out of my hair,extinguishing my fire, and soaking me through to the skin?” demanded themaster.

“You have stated the case, Oglethorpe. And what is more,” said the waterghost, “it doesn’t make the slightest differ-ence where you are, if I findthat room empty, wherever you may be I shall douse you with my spectralpres--”

Here the clock struck one, and immedi-ately the apparition faded away. Itwas perhaps more of a trickle than a fade, but as a disappearance it wascomplete.

“By St. George and his Dragon!” ejaculated the master of Harrowby,wringing his hands. “It is guineas to hot-cross buns that next Christmasthere’s an occupant of the spare room, or I spend the night in abath-tub.”

But the master of Harrowby would have lost his wager had there been anyone there to take him up, for when Christmas Eve came again he was in hisgrave, never having recovered from the cold contracted that awful night.Harrowby Hall was closed, and the heir to the estate was in London, whereto him in his chambers came the same ex-

perience that his father had gonethrough, saving only that, being younger and stronger, he survived theshock. Everything in his rooms was ru-ined--his clocks were rusted in theworks; a fine collection of water-color drawings was entirely obliteratedby the onslaught of the water ghost; and what was worse, the apartmentsbelow his were drenched with the water soaking through the floors, adamage for which he was compelled to pay, and which resulted in his beingrequested by his landlady to vacate the premises immediately.

The story of the visitation inflicted upon his family had gone abroad, andno one could be got to invite him out to any function save afternoon teasand receptions. Fathers of daughters de-clined to permit him to remain intheir houses later than eight o’clock at night, not knowing but that someemergency might arise in the supernatu-ral world which would require theunexpected appearance of the water ghost in this on nights other thanChristmas Eve, and before the mystic hour when weary churchyards, ignoringthe rules which are supposed to govern polite society, begin to yawn. Norwould the maids themselves have aught to do with him, fearing thedestruction by the sudden incursion of aqueous femininity of the costumeswhich they held most dear.

So the heir of Harrowby Hall resolved, as his ancestors for severalgenerations before him had resolved, that something must be done. Hisfirst thought was to make one of his ser-vants occupy the haunted room atthe crucial moment; but in this he failed, because the servants themselvesknew the history of that room and re-belled. None of his friends wouldconsent to sacrifice their personal com-

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fort to his, nor was there to befound in all England a man so poor as to be willing to occupy the doomedchamber on Christmas Eve for pay.

Then the thought came to the heir to have the fireplace in the roomenlarged, so that he might evaporate the ghost at its first appearance,and he was felicitating himself upon the ingenuity of his plan, when heremembered what his father had told him--how that no fire could withstandthe lady’s extremely contagious dampness. And then he bethought him ofsteam-pipes. These, he remembered, could lie hundreds of feet deep inwater, and still retain sufficient heat to drive the water away in vapor;and as a result of this thought the haunt-ed room was heated by steam to awithering degree, and the heir for six months attended daily the Turkishbaths, so that when Christmas Eve came he could himself withstand theawful temperature of the room.

The scheme was only partially successful. The water ghost appeared at thespecified time, and found the heir of Har-rowby prepared; but hot as theroom was, it shortened her visit by no more than five minutes in the hour,during which time the nervous system of the young master was wellnighshattered, and the room itself was cracked and warped to an extent whichrequired the outlay of a large sum of mon-ey to remedy. And worse thanthis, as the last drop of the water ghost was slowly sizzling itself outon the floor, she whispered to her would-be conqueror that his schemewould avail him nothing, because there was still water in great plentywhere she came from, and that next year would find her rehabilitated andas exasperatingly saturating as ever.

It was then that the natural action of the mind, in going from one extremeto the other, suggested to the ingenious heir of Harrowby the means bywhich the water ghost was ultimately con-quered, and happiness once morecame within the grasp of the house of Oglethorpe.

The heir provided himself with a warm suit of fur under-clothing. Donningthis with the furry side in, he placed over it a rubber garment,tightfitting, which he wore just as a wom-an wears a jersey. On top of thishe placed another set of under-clothing, this suit made of wool, and overthis was a second rubber garment like the first. Upon his head he placed alight and comfortable diving helmet, and so clad, on the followingChristmas Eve he awaited the coming of his tormentor.

It was a bitterly cold night that brought to a close this twenty-fourthday of December. The air outside was still, but the temperature was belowzero. Within all was quiet, the servants of Harrowby Hall awaiting withbeating hearts the outcome of their mas-ter’s campaign against hissupernatural visitor.

The master himself was lying on the bed in the haunted room, clad as hasalready been indicated, and then--

The clock clanged out the hour of twelve.

There was a sudden banging of doors, a blast of cold air swept through thehalls, the door leading into the haunted chamber flew open, a splash washeard, and the water ghost was seen stand-ing at the side of the heir ofHarrowby, from whose outer dress there streamed rivulets of water, butwhose own person deep down under the

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various garments he wore was as dryand as warm as he could have wished.

“Ha!” said the young master of Harrowby. “I’m glad to see you.”

“You are the most original man I’ve met, if that is true,” returned theghost. “May I ask where did you get that hat?”

“Certainly, madam,” returned the master, courteously. “It is a littleportable observatory I had made for just such emergencies as this. But,tell me, is it true that you are doomed to follow me about for one mortalhour--to stand where I stand, to sit where I sit?”

“That is my delectable fate,” returned the lady.

“We’ll go out on the lake,” said the master, starting up.

“You can’t get rid of me that way,” re-turned the ghost. “The water won’tswallow me up; in fact, it will just add to my present bulk.”

“Nevertheless,” said the master, firmly, “we will go out on the lake.”

“But, my dear sir,” returned the ghost, with a pale reluctance, “it isfearfully cold out there. You will be frozen hard before you’ve been outten minutes.”

“Oh no, I’ll not,” replied the master. “I am very warmly dressed. Come!”This last in a tone of command that made the ghost ripple.

And they started.

They had not gone far before the water ghost showed signs of distress.

“You walk too slowly,” she said. “I am near-ly frozen. My knees are sostiff now I can hardly move. I beseech you to accelerate your step.”

“I should like to oblige a lady,” returned the master, courteously, “butmy clothes are rather heavy, and a hun-dred yards an hour is about myspeed. Indeed, I think we would better sit down here on this snowdrift,and talk matters over.”

“Do not! Do not do so, I beg!” cried the ghost. “Let me move on. I feelmyself growing rigid as it is. If we stop here, I shall be frozen stiff.”

“That, madam,” said the master slowly, and seating himself on anice-cake--”that is why I have brought you here. We have been on this spotjust ten minutes, we have fifty more. Take your time about it, madam, butfreeze, that is all I ask of you.”

“I cannot move my right leg now,” cried the ghost, in despair, “and myoverskirt is a solid sheet of ice. Oh, good, kind Mr. Oglethorpe, light afire, and let me go free from these icy fet-ters.”

“Never, madam. It cannot be. I have you at last.”

“Alas!” cried the ghost, a tear trickling down her frozen cheek. “Help me,I beg. I congeal!”

“Congeal, madam, congeal!” returned Oglethorpe, coldly. “You have drenchedme and mine for two hundred and three years, madam. To-night you have hadyour last drench.”

“Ah, but I shall thaw out again, and then you’ll see. Instead of thecomfortably tepid, genial ghost I have

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been in my past, sir, I shall beiced-water,” cried the lady, threateningly.

“No, you won’t, either,” returned Oglethor-pe; “for when you are frozenquite stiff, I shall send you to a cold-stor-age warehouse, and there shallyou remain an icy work of art forever more.”

“But warehouses burn.”

“So they do, but this warehouse cannot burn. It is made of asbestos andsurrounding it are fire-proof walls, and within those walls thetemperature is now and shall forever be 416 degrees below the zero point;low enough to make an icicle of any flame in this world--or the next,” themaster added, with an ill-suppressed chuckle.

“For the last time let me beseech you. I would go on my knees to you,Oglethorpe, were they not already frozen. I beg of you do not doo--”

Here even the words froze on the water

ghost’s lips and the clock struckone. There was a momentary tremor throughout the ice-bound form, and themoon, coming out from behind a cloud, shone down on the rigid figure of abeautiful woman sculptured in clear, transparent ice. There stood theghost of Harrowby Hall, conquered by the cold, a prisoner for all time.

The heir of Harrowby had won at last, and to-day in a large storage housein London stands the frigid form of one who will never again flood thehouse of Oglethorpe with woe and sea-water.

As for the heir of Harrowby, his success in coping with a ghost has madehim famous, a fame that still lingers about him, although his victory tookplace some twenty years ago; and so far from being unpopular with the fairsex, as he was when we first knew him, he has not only been married twice,but is to lead a third bride to the altar be-fore the year is out.

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