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Christmas Cards: One of the newer Christmas traditions, Christmas cards originated shortly after the inauguration of England's penny post. The first Christmas card, made by J.C. Horsley for Sir Henry Cole in 1843, sold 1000 copies...
...presence, I thought, was depressing Santa, so I stood and said, "Well, sir, I'd better be going...
...Hello, sir," I said. "I'd like to interview...
...sorry about the elves, sir. How are the reindeer...
THERE ARE, if recent productions are any indication, two ways to stage The Pirates of Penzance today. One is to find a couple of sultry rock and roll sexpots to sing the leads, tinkering around with Sir Arthur Sullivan's score a little to make the romantic Victorian solos sound more like "It's So Easy to Fall in Love." The other is to follow the sturdy set of schticks that has been handed down virtually unchanged over the years since the operetta's debut a century ago with the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company. To his credit, Paul...