Word: panto
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This year some 140 pantomimes are playing in Great Britain. They are at their broadest and, in an old-fashioned way, at their best, in the provinces. In London the best of the revue artists take part, but panto-purists complain that the old fairy tales and the old simplehearted clowning are ever more laggingly interrupted by variety turns of performing dogs, conjurers, acrobats and midgets...
...always a lady even in panto...