Punch on the Playhouse
Anon
Genre: | Essay, Drollery |
Subjects: | Microscopy, Neurology |
Explains how the thought of Christmas pantomimes develops within the minds of London theatre managers. Notes that the thought begins deep within the pia mater of the brain—a region so small that 'when microscopes are brought to perfection' it will be 'shown at so much a head'. | |
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