Schommer was presented by the News as a “professional Santa Claus of international experience,” who for 16 years had played the role in Omaha and Paris.
“Short in stature and endowed with a ‘bay window’ of splendid proportions, Mr. Schommer is a replica of the storybook Santa Claus. His gruff, At Paris he played the French Santa Claus at the Bon Marche store in 1903.
“‘I’m one Santa Claus who is up to date,’ says Mr. Schommer. ‘First I came on a jackass; the next year on a white horse; then in an automobile, and then in an airship.’This year Santa Claus rides an airship, but also has his team of trusty reindeer hitched
