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Thursday, December 2, 2021 Volume 68 | Number 13
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THE DESERT MOBILE HOME NEWS CELEBRATING THE DESERT COMMUNITIES FOR 65 YEARS
‘Sounds of the Holidays’ at Palm Springs Aerial Tramway
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n December 3, holiday choir season returns at the Palm Springs Aerial Tramway. Select Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays through December 12, a different high school choir performs holiday favorites at the Tramway’s Mountain Station. For the 2021 holiday season, the Tramway is proud to present the following line-up:
1. GEOGRAPHY: What percent of the world’s population lives in the Northern Hemisphere? 2. MOVIES: Which 1987 film contains the catchy line, “May the Schwartz be with you”?
Friday, December 3 The Lion’s Pride Chamber Singers (Cathedral City H.S.) Sunday, December 5 Palm Springs High School Madrigals (Tree Lighting Ceremony) Friday, December 10 Jurupa Valley High School Chamber Singers Saturday, December 11 Martin Luther King High School Chamber Singers & Show Choir Sunday, December 12 Encore High School for the Arts Madrigals
Show times are 5 p.m. and 7 p.m., and are complimentary with regular Tram admission. Performances are on the Pines Café Stage with food and beverage service available from either the Pines Café or the Lookout Lounge. Open seating with no reservations taken. (Note: The December 5th performance is outside on the Desert View Terrace and begins at 5:30 p.m.) On Sunday, December 5, the Tramway’s Annual Tree Lighting
Ceremony begins at 5:30 p.m. with Santa serving as this year’s official tree lighter. The Tram’s landmark 45-foot tree is comprised of over 4,000 lights and can be seen throughout the Coachella Valley. While there is limited inperson viewing, the ceremony will stream on Facebook Live beginning at 5:30 p.m. facebook. com/PalmSpringsAerialTramway. For more information, call 760325-1391, or visit pstramway.com.
Kick off the Holiday season with ‘The Sound of Music’ “The Sound of Music” has become a beloved musical and has become a classic as it embraces the universal themes of family, love and a strong sense of community that will ultimately prevail over the most tremendous challenges in society. Music by
• During the first Gulf War in 1991, every U.S. soldier was sent a frozen Snickers bar as a Thanksgiving treat. • Mario Puzo, author of “The Godfather” books who also helped adapt them to film, had no formal training and had never written a screenplay before. After winning
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Richard Rodgers and lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein, is based on the memoirs of Maria Von Trapp, set in Austria, 1938. The show runs Fridays: Dec 3, Dec 10, Dec 17 - 8 p.m., Saturdays: (No show Dec 4 due to the Palm Springs Festival of Lights Parade)
Dec 11, Dec 18 - 8 p.m., Sundays: Dec 5, Dec 12, Dec 19 - 2 p.m., Thursdays: Dec 9, Dec 16 - 7 p.m. For tickets, call the box office at 760-323-5123 or order online at PalmCanyonTheatre.org. Palm Canyon Theatre is located at 538 North Palm Canyon Drive.
two Oscars for the first two movies, he bought a book to help himself learn how to be a screenwriter.
his hands after work and tasted something “unspeakably sweet” during dinner. He interrupted the meal to sample every beaker in his lab, which fortunately contained nothing poisonous.
• Delaware and Colorado allow a marriage to be annulled if it was performed as a dare. • At the center of every snowflake is a pollen or dust particle on which an extremely cold water droplet has frozen to form an ice crystal. • Saccharin, the first artificial sweetener, was discovered by accident when chemist Dr. Constantine Fahlberg forgot to wash
• “Passion purpura” is the medical term for a hickey. • Donald Trump was the first president in 168 years not to have a pet in the White House. • The distress signal SOS does not actually stand for anything. (c) 2021 King Features Synd., Inc.
3. LITERATURE: Author John Steinbeck contends that his dog ate the first draft of which of his novels? 4. ANIMAL KINGDOM: What is a group of parrots called? 5. MUSIC: Who is considered the “Father of the Blues”? 6. U.S. PRESIDENTS: Who was the first sitting president to throw out the first pitch on baseball’s opening day? 7. FOOD & DRINK: Which fruit also is sometimes called a “love apple”? 8. TELEVISION: Where do the vampires live in “What We Do in the Shadows”? 9. HISTORY: In what year did East Germany start to build the Berlin Wall? 10. INVENTIONS: Which scientist invented the color wheel? © 2021 King Features Synd., Inc. ANSWER TO TRIVIA ON PAGE 10