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The schoolboy, agape at the tinselsplendour and seeming miracles of aholiday pantomime, longs for a peepbehind the pasteboard parapets thatlimit his view. When the falling curtainputs a period to Clown’s malicious buffooneryand to the blunders of persecutedand long suffering Pantaloon, hemarvels as to the subsequent proceedingsof the lithe an