21 December 1946 The pantomime ritual should fulfil all the formalities and then blow them out into a balloon of nonsense with slapstick, gagging, and topical jokesWhen the time of year comes round that golden crowns are worn with plus-fours and the Queen asks the henpecked King "Did you dust the throne this morning?" we are in the dead of winter and at the heart of that old, traditional foolishness pantomime, so dea…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:33AM on December 21, 2017