Monthly arts and media column

Eleanor Margesson  |  Features
Date posted:  1 Oct 2010
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There are many who might consider that there are fewer lovelier activities than granting a deserving four-year-old child the opportunity to meet Cinderella.

What could be more noble than to wait your turn in the heat of the midday sun for over two hours so that they might know five minutes of joy?

After all, this fairytale heroine is full of admirable qualities such as grace, elegance and self-control. She is hard-working, submits to authority and bears up under terrible mistreatment. When she is given good things, she is grateful and forgives those who have wronged her.

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