"SNOW WHITE"
Sir-In your "Run Through the Programmes" section of September 28 October 4 you make mention of the original "Snow White." I should feel sorry if, as your paragraph says, fairy tales were not tread by the modern child. I know of three widely separated groups of children who received their introduction to the tale from a children’s operetta, " Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs," before Walt Disney’s film was released in New Zealand. You say also that "there is a very plausible account of Snow White in Hans Andersen’s Tales.’ My own comprehensive volume (Oxford Edition) does not contain it, while my much smaller collection of Grimm’s Fairy Tales gives the account under the title " Snowdrop." The change of title is easily explained when it is remembered that the tales are translated from the German,
GERDA
(Picton), —
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 5, Issue 123, 31 October 1941, Page 4
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139"SNOW WHITE" New Zealand Listener, Volume 5, Issue 123, 31 October 1941, Page 4
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