Article: Munchkin follows yellow-brick road to Bay State.(News)

Byline: WENDALL WATERS (HAMILTON-WENHAM CHRONICLE)

Oz was somewhere over the rainbow, but it was no picnic.

Playing a Munchkin in the original "Wizard of Oz" meant long days for short pay, said one member of the tiny troupe.

"I hated it," said Donna Stewart-Hardway, one of the few child actors dressed up as a Munchkin. "It was always `Donna Jean do this and Donna Jean do that,' " said Hardway, now 73.

Hardway brought a treasured keepsake, a ruby slipper from the set, and a trove of memories to Hamilton yesterday, where parents and children are producing their own version of the 1939 ...

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