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' Some Folk Tales'
This afternoon Harcourt Williams will tell three stories which should make good puppet plays-' Mr. Vinegar', and The Straw Ox ', from ' Folk Tales of All Nations', and ' The Twelve Wise Men of Gotham '.
Other stories that would adapt well as puppet plays are ' The Three Bears', 'The Three Little Pigs', ' The Sleeping Beauty ' Snow White ', ' Jack and the Beanstalk ', ' Tom Tit Tot', ', and ' Cap o' Rushes '.
Schools are invited to make puppet plays of their own out of any of the above stories or the three told by Harcourt Williams today. Their plays should he sent to the Secretary, Central Council for School Broadcasting, [address removed], and be received by him not later than April 29. The best puppet play sent in by schools will be acted in the Junior English programme on Friday, June 3.

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