A small woman, fragile, wearing riding boots, a smart little jacket and large, Dior-framed spectacles turned to someone nearby, also waiting in the rain outside the Norman Rockwell Museum last week.

“I’m Marge Champion,” she said cheerfully. “Hello.”
And so she was. Two inches shorter than when she met her dancing partner, Gower Champion, “I’ve shrunk,” she says, but as ready as ever to take the stage. Marge Champion, all five feet of her, was here in Stockbridge, MA, to open a show at the Rockwell museum on Walt Disney’s “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.”

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