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The dream, of course, is the age-old dream of being Cinderella. Not the original Cinderella who went to a ball and married a prince, but one of the new Cinderellas — as press agents call them — ■ who go off to New York or Hollywood and become stars overnight. Certainly, in her own life, Patti qualifies as one of the most authentic Cinderellas in television today. She was born Clara Ann Fowler in Claremore, Oklahoma — a town with a population of four thousand, not including any fairy godmothers who might be passing through. She didn't have any mean and selfish stepsisters, like the girl in the fairy tale, but she did have seven real sisters, not to mention three brothers. And they were poor enough for the children to have to sleep three in a bed. Patti was working in a radio station in near-by Tulsa when she was discovered — not by a fairy godmother but it was the next best thing. Jack Rael, now her partner-manager, literally appeared out of nowhere and heard her sing. He didn't have any magic wands, but he did have know-how. And that's how it happened that Clara Ann Fowler of Oklahoma was transformed into Patti Page, "The Singing Rage." Cinderella not only went to the ball, she had a ball. It is now over six years since Patti made "Confess," her first hit record for Mecury. Yet today she's riding higher than ever. The clock still hasn't struck twelve. The Patti Page Show for Oldsmobile, her fifteen-minute filmed variety series, is not only seen in 175 cities from coast to coast but throughout Europe and Canada, as well. She is now serving as Perry Como's summer replacement on his big Saturday -night show for NBC-TV. And, this fall, Patti will have her own live show on television. But what about me? The letters almost cry out for attention. How can I be Cinderella, too? . . . "And how can I be you?" Patti feels like answering, for the letterwriters themselves are free — free to get the things in life that really matter most. It would be quite a shock to some of her fans if they realized how much Patti envies them, particularly the ones who have been content to remain at home and just be themselves. For these are the ones who can "just up and marry one day." These are the ones who already have babies — babies they name after Patti. "But then, they name their dogs after me, too," she adds. And, speaking of dogs, Patti calls her own out onto the terrace. It's a toy Yorkshire terrier, and the way she strokes him with a far-off look in her eyes, you can tell that the dog is a very special gift from a very special young man. For Cinderella has met her prince . . . only Cinderella can't "just up and marry." It was only two years ago that she had confessed in an interview with TV Radio Mirror, "I want five babies." Now she added: "And I'm still young enough to have them." But the only man she would have as their father was some three thousand miles away in Hollywood. And there she sat, on the terrace of her luxurious apartment in New York, surrounded by stacks of mail. And how can I be a great singer, too? her fans want to know. How can I be just like you? . . . That's how it came about — these "Confessions of Cinderella." "Or maybe," Patti suggests, since she's never lost the happy faculty of laughing at herself, "maybe we could call it, 'What Really Happened at the Ball.' . . . "To begin with," Patti advises, "ask yourself this question: Do you really want to sing or do you just want to go to the ball?" bure, it's wonderful to be a success — the favorite of millions, a star in television, theaters and records. It's gratifying to be given all kinds of public recognition. (Last year, Patti received the Interfaith Award. For the past two years, the Teen-Agers Survey Service has voted her its Number One Singer. And, last May, Patti received the TV Radio Mirror Special Award as your "Favorite TV Female Singer.") It's great to have your clothes specially designed for you, to drive about in a big car, to own a thirty-four-foot yacht. And it's a dream come true to have Perry Como for a friend. "But the success," Patti insists, "is only a by-product. If you don't really want to sing — if you don't have to sing more than anything else in this world — you'll never make it." Success, she explains, is usually a long time in coming. It takes years of training and hard work and "doing without." The dream alone can't sustain you. "The only thing that keeps you going is the enjoyment you get out of singing. It it weren't for that," Patti says frankly, "it would just be a lot of hard work." Her second bit of advice is: Don't go to Hollywood or New York to be discovered. "You have to figure out some way to be seen in your own home town." In her own case, she sang in a church choir and took any singing job she could get around Tulsa. When Jack Rael, then a band manager, was passing through Tulsa on a tour of one-night stands, he happened to hear her singing on the local radio station. Even after Patti and Jack Rael formed their partnership, they spent the first two years touring small towns, doing one-night stands, getting the necessary experience in night clubs and small theaters before Patti broke into network radio as vocalist for Don McNeill's Breakfast Club. And, when Patti started recording for Mecury, it wasn't until she made her thirteenth release that she came up with a hit. Even today, it's not all a ball. "I am currently involved in an enterprise which takes up twenty-six hours of my day," she explains. "The alarm in my apartment rings at five -thirty in the morning. At five-forty-five, the telephone rings and wakes me. It's Jack Rael calling to make certain the alarm has awakened me. I assure him it has. At six-thirty, I stagger out of the house and wave half-heartedly at the first taxi to come by. It takes me to the studios where we do our filming." For The Patti Page Show, her filmed television series, Patti spends two of these "twenty-six hour days" recording, two filming, and two on costumes. "By the time Sunday comes," she admits, "I just want to sit down."