The following text may have been generated by Optical Character Recognition, with varying degrees of accuracy. Reader beware!

{% With some help from a friendly cuckoo bird and lots of help from the audience she got to work on her magic formula for turning a plain maiden into a prince‘s dream. It wasn‘t easyâ€"not for someone as forgetful as she wasâ€"and the fact that all the crucial pages in her spells‘ dictionary were missâ€" ing. That‘s where the fairy godmothâ€" her came in, looking for ‘"‘Cinderâ€" ella, the little dickens." But the effort all went by the wayside, when the ugly sisters reâ€" fused to let her accompany them to the ball anyhow. This aspect of the program was introduced a few years ago and has proved one of the most popular of the summer playground attracâ€" tions. At Thursday afternoon‘s perâ€" formance, the youngsters sympaâ€" thized with Cinderella‘s tattered appearance and putâ€"upon state enough to whip up on stage and give her a hand with the tidyingâ€" up. And there were no complaints. The youngsters hollered and apâ€" plauded the jazzedâ€"up version of the old fairy tale and got in on the act (as often and as many) whenâ€" ever they could. It was all a part of the comâ€" munity services board‘s summer playground by which the children can see and participate in profesâ€" sional performances of children‘s theatre for an outlay of 25 cents. .Well, so she was. Maybe not as the aufttor envisioned her in his original Cinderella, but certainly as the Toronto Studio Lab Theatre Foundation actors presented her to hundreds of youngsters at Moses Springer Arena last week. A Charles Perrault fairy godâ€" mother speaking like that‘ ‘‘Dig the size of that pumpkin, sugar.‘‘ Miniâ€"skirted Cinderella marries her Negro prince BY ALICE HURLEY The ugly sister primps for the royal ball. In spite of everything the pumpâ€" kin coach, two footmen and a miniâ€" skirted Cinderella were produced on stage before it was discovered the fairy godmother just coundn‘t abide mice. Well, there was nothing for it as the clock struck midnight. And ie cfi <fo sn e ofo ois in <he <hs ihs ts tip cip cin t in on tis ts c t p on in tn t t tz ie se t n tb tb cb h h hb Cinderella has no need of horses to pull her carriage when there are this many willing helpers around. Naturally, the prince fell in love with Cinderella and lost her then but for the youngsters to pull the coach to the palace. They got there, aftér two circuits around the arena. _ * A word from her fairy godmother brought a coachman to Cinderella‘s side. like the fairy tale, they were reâ€" united when the slipper fitted. Then came the wedding, with the ugly sisters as attendants for the marriage ceremony between Cinderella and her Negro prince. Even if Perrault‘s characters Waterioo Chronicle, Thuraday, July 23, 1970 ‘‘That was a good quarter‘s worth,"‘ said one little boy to anâ€" other outside the door. need updating, it seems a happyâ€" everâ€"after ending has stood the test of time. ‘‘Yeah, for 25 cents, it wasn‘t bad,"‘ replied his companion.