In 1180, fourteen year old Eleanor Maude played a minstrel and jester and travelled as entertainer with her juggler friend Anne Paston. But not only was Eleanor a jester she was also the daughter of King Henry II!
Madame Greta Petrov, tells stories about her ballet pupils. Madame Petrov, helps to solve many of the girls problems and she is helped by her assistant Elma Harper. In one story she helps a girl Dianne who is forced to dance in secret as her father forbids her to dance because her mother was killed in a theatre fire, she helps persuade the father to let Dianne dance. In another story she has difficulties when a movie star comes to learn dancing for her next role, but is too big headed to listen to Madame Petrov, and ends with her having an accident. The star learns humility and Madame Petrov, convinces the movie producer that another pupil with similar build and with make up can do the dancing parts for the movie, which would also solve that girl’s money problems.
Other Appearances:
Sally Taylor was confined to bed due to a back injury. She relied on visitors to keep her entertained, but even confined to her room, she could still find ways to help people.
When Miss Talbot, the owner of the Mount Riding School, was forced to sell her stables, she and her six best pupils, led by Kathleen Sutton, se off on a tour of the country giving Musical Riding Displays.
When Millie Masterton was chosen to play the witch in her school play, her grandmother gave her a magic broomstick which was 200 years old. When Millie read out three strange words carved on the handle of the broomstick, she discovered she could fly with it!
In an annual story she helps out at the circus when their human cannonball act can’t go on as the spring mechanism is broken. She use her broomstick to fly out of the cannon, though she will not reveal how she performed the act!
Other Appearances:
Tillie Tucker was a teacher who travelled all over Britain helping out at schools which needed special aid and advice with difficult students.
Humour stip about girl Bonny, who tries to look after her mischievious baby brother.
Other Appearances:
Collette a homeless girl was living in a disused part of the Royal Palace of Cardillia. Collete had discovered a plot to kill the young queen. She warned Queen Sonya who asked Collete to be her shadow and try to discover who her enemies were.
In the late 1800s, Sukaro was young Indian nursemaid to the English Pringle family. She and the family escaped to the junle when the Pringle’s bungalow was burned at start of the Indian Rebellion. While the family hid in the jungle Sukaro volunteered to go back to the city and find out what had happened, she then helped sneak them to the British residency.
Linda Crawford has a job looking after her impish 5 year old sister Mitsy, though she knows she’s good at heart.
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Annual Appearances
Summer Specials