Sophia Schaller
Sophia Schaller( born 17 September 2000) is an Austrian figure skater.
She is the 2018 Sarajevo Open champion, the 2019 Santa Claus Cup bronze medalist, the 2019 Austrian national silver medalist, and the 2018 Austrian national bronze medalist.
On the junior level, she is the 2016 Santa Claus Cup silver medalist and the 2017 Austrian junior national silver medalist.
Santa Claus Lane
Santa Claus Lane is a holiday album by American singer Hilary Duff.
It was released in the United States on October 15, 2002 by Buena Vista Records.
The holiday album contains covers of Christmas songs, including" Santa Claus Is Coming to TownJingle Bell Rock" and" Last Christmas".
The album also features guest appearances from Christina Milian, Lil' Romeo and Duff's sister Haylie.
" Santa Claus Lane" peaked at number two on US" Billboard" Top Heatseekers and Top Kid Audio charts and peaked at number 154 on the US" Billboard" 200.
It has been certified Gold by the Recording Industry Association of America( RIAA) for shipping 500,000 copies to retailers.
In Japan in peaked at number 134 on the Oricon albums chart in 2004.
" Santa Claus Lane" received mixed reviews by music critics, who considered the album to not be a genuine Christmas album despite its promotion as such.
The title song was featured in the 2002 film" The Santa Clause 2".
Santa Claus in film
Motion pictures featuring Santa Claus abound and apparently constitute their own subgenre of the Christmas film genre.
Early films of Santa revolve around similar simple plots of Santa's Christmas
Eve visit to children.
In 1897, in a short film called" Santa Claus Filling Stockings", Santa Claus is simply filling stockings from his pack of toys.
Another film called" Santa Claus and the Children" was made in 1898.
A year later, a film directed by George Albert Smith entitled" Santa Claus"( or" The Visit from Santa Claus" in the United Kingdom) was created.
In this picture, Santa Claus enters the room from the fireplace and proceeds to trim the tree.
He then fills the stockings that were previously hung on the mantle by the children.
After walking backward and surveying his work, he suddenly darts at the fireplace and disappears up the chimney.
" Santa Claus' Visit" in 1900 featured a scene with two little children kneeling at the feet of their mother and saying their prayers.
The mother tucks the children snugly in bed and leaves the room.
Santa
Claus suddenly appears on the roof, just outside the children's bedroom window, and proceeds to enter the chimney, taking with him his bag of presents and a little hand sled for one of the children.
He goes down the chimney and suddenly appears in the children's room through the fireplace.
He distributes the presents and mysteriously causes the appearance of a Christmas tree laden with gifts.
The scene closes with the children waking up and running to the fireplace just too late to catch him by the legs.
A 1909 film by D. W. Griffith titled" A Trap for Santa Claus" shows children setting a trap to capture Santa Claus as he descends the chimney, but instead capture their father who abandoned them and their mother but tries to burglarize the house after he discovers that she inherited a fortune.
A 29- minute 1925 silent film production titled" Santa Claus", by explorer/ documentarian Frank E. Kleinschmidt, filmed partly in northern Alaska, feature Santa in his workshop, visiting his Eskimo neighbors, and tending his reindeer.
A year later, another movie titled" Santa Claus" was produced with sound on De Forest Phonofilm.
Over the years, various actors have donned the red suit( aside from those discussed below), including Leedham Bantock in" Santa Claus"( 1912), Monty Woolley in" Life Begins at Eight- thirty"( 1942), Alberto Rabagliati in" The Christmas That Almost Was n't"( 1966), Dan Aykroyd in" Trading Places"( 1983), Jan Rubes in" One Magic Christmas"( 1985), David Huddleston in( 1985), Jonathan Taylor Thomas in" I'll Be Home for Christmas"( 1998), and Ed Asner in" Elf"( 2003).
Later films about Santa vary, but can be divided into the following themes shown below.
Graciela Lara
Graciela Lara is a Mexican actress of film and television who made her debut in the 1959 film," Santa Claus".
Jimmy Boyd
Jimmy Devon Boyd (January 9, 1939 – March 7, 2009) was an American singer, musician, and actor known for his recording of the song "I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus".
Charles W. Howard
Charles Willis" Charlie" Howard( June 15, 1896 – May 1, 1966) was an American actor and teacher most famous for portraying Santa Claus in department stores and parades.
In 1937, he established the Charles W. Howard Santa Claus School which today is the oldest continuously- run Santa school in the world.
John Duval Gluck
John Duval Gluck, Jr.( December 25, 1878- 1951) was an American philanthropist, customs broker, and con artist who is best known for popularizing the practice of sending and answering letters to Santa Claus in New York City.
Gluck's organization, the Santa Claus Association, would receive letters addressed to Santa Claus from impoverished children, investigate them to ensure that they are truly needy, and if approved would sent gifts to those children.
Here Comes Santa Claus
"Here Comes Santa Claus (Down Santa Claus Lane)" is a Christmas song originally written and performed by Gene Autry, with music composed by Oakley Haldeman.
Autry's original recording (in which he pronounces Santa Claus as "Santy Claus") was a top-10 hit on the pop and country charts; the song would go on to be covered many times in the subsequent decades.
Autry got the idea for the song after riding his horse in the 1946 Santa Claus Lane Parade (now the Hollywood Christmas Parade) in Los Angeles, during which crowds of spectators chanted, Here comes Santa Claus.
This inspired him to write a song that Haldeman set to music.
Autry's lyrics combined two veins of the Christmas tradition, the mythology of Santa Claus and the Christian origin of the holiday (most explicitly in its mention of the nativity promise of "peace on Earth").
A demo recording was made by singer/guitarist Johnny Bond, whose recording made use of ice cubes to mimic the sound of the jingling sleigh-bells.
This inspired the use of real sleigh-bells in Autry's own recording of the song.
Autry first recorded the song in 1947; released as a single by Columbia Records
, it became a #5 country and #9 pop hit.
Autry performed the song in his 1949 movie "The Cowboy and the Indians".
He re-recorded it again for Columbia in 1953 and, once more, for his own Challenge Records label in 1957, of which it was released on more than one album that year.
Other artists to record the song include Doris Day (1949), Bing Crosby and the Andrews Sisters (
recorded May 10, 1949), Elvis Presley (1957), the Ray Conniff Singers (1959), Keely Smith (1960), Alvin and the Chipmunks (1961), Bob B. Soxx & the Blue Jeans (1963), Hank Thompson (1964), in excerpt by The Beach Boys as part of their song "Child of Winter" (1974), Willie Nelson (1979), Glen Campbell, RuPaul, The Wiggles (1997), Billy Idol (2006), Bob Dylan (2009), Mariah Carey (2010), Chicago (2011), the "Glee" cast (2013), and Pentatonix (2018).
In 1988, "Here Comes Santa Claus" was featured in "Very Merry Christmas Songs" which is part of the "Disney Sing Along Songs" collection.
The song was also featured prominently in the popular Christmas movie National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation during the climax towards the end of the film.
The version of the song used was Autry's 1957 "Challenge Records" recording.
Oakley Haldeman
Oakley W. Haldeman (July 17, 1909 - December 17, 1986) was an American songwriter ("Here Comes Santa Claus"), composer, author and the general manager for a music publisher.
He joined ASCAP in 1949, and his other popular-song compositions include "Brush Those Tears From Your EyesI Wish I Had Never Met SunshineTho' I
TriedPretty MaryTexas PolkaHoney ChildVic'try TrainLast Mile", and "Texans Never Cry".
Haldeman was born in California, the son of Catherine (Oakley) and Clarence Edward Haldeman.
Santa Claus, Arizona
Santa Claus( also known as Santa Claus Acres) is a populated place in Mohave County, Arizona, United States.
Originating in 1937, Santa Claus lies approximately northwest of Kingman, Arizona, along U.S. Route 93 between mile markers 57 and 58, immediately north of Hermit Drive and just south of both Grasshopper Junction, Arizona, and the Junk Art of Chloride, a group of metal statues in Chloride, Arizona, that include a flamingo made out of a motorcycle gas tank.
Characterized in 1988 as" a little roadside place on the west shoulder of U.S. Route 93," Santa Claus receives traffic from motorists driving between Phoenix, Arizona, and Las Vegas, Nevada, or Hoover Dam.
In connection with its beginnings in 1937, Santa Claus received several attractions and buildings, including the Kit Carson Guest House which was renamed the Santa Claus Inn.
Nina Talbot, a real estate woman and the owner of Santa Claus, made plans to use the Santa theme in a parched desert location to attract buyers for her surrounding, subdivided land.
By 1942, the town of Santa Claus had become a full- fledged tourist spot.
After twelve years operating Santa Claus, Talbot's land resale plans for Santa Claus never materialized, in part because the only inhabitants in the town were the ones working there.
Talbot sold her interest in the town in 1949.
Others made plans during the 1950s to improve Santa Claus, which received publicity through the writings of American novelist and famed science fiction writer Robert A. Heinlein and U.S. pioneer restaurant rater Duncan Hines and through 1961 remailing service advertisements offering to postmark letters from Santa Claus, for a small fee.
The popularity of Santa Claus went in decline in the 1970s.
In July 1983, owner Tony Wilcox unsuccessfully offered to sell Santa Claus for$ 95,000, which was reduced to$ 52,500 by 1988.
All remaining operating businesses in the town closed in 1995.
In the 2000s, the town became difficult to locate and the few remaining structures and attractions were weather worn.
What presently remains is several vandalized buildings, a wishing well, and the" Old 1225", a derailed, pink children's train tagged with graffiti that mar the hand- painted renderings of Santa and his elves on the train.

Question: Which country the composer of song Here Comes Santa Claus is from?
Answer: American