FAIRY TALES FOR OLD AND YOUNG
like a polished cynical touch to their fairy stories. "Tom Thumb" for instance, an American humorist has rewritten into an anecdote about a small boy who is walking in fairyland one day when he meets a giant. " Who are you?" he asks the giant. "I’m Tom Thumb" comes the reply. " But Tom Thumb is only a little man." "T know," says the giant, " This is my day off." The average child, however, and the average adult too, for that matter, prefers the simply-told fairy stories that have been passed down in the same form for hundreds of years. " Mother Goose," "Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves," " Jack the Giant Killer," and a hundred others are to children an adventure into worlds just as real as their everyday surroundings, and to adults escape literature as fascinating as’ detective stories and thrillers. Some of these old fairy stories have been dramatized for radio by one of America’s best known recording studios, and will be presented over the ZB stations, in the near future. They will be heard in the children’s session, but they are certain to have a large following of adults as well. Among the most effective are several from the Arabian Nights, including "Ali Baba," " Aladdin" and " Sinbad." S OPHISTICATES, of course,
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 4, Issue 87, 21 February 1941, Page 9
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218FAIRY TALES FOR OLD AND YOUNG New Zealand Listener, Volume 4, Issue 87, 21 February 1941, Page 9
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