[Dixielandjazz] Re: Happy Every Day -- and the Holy-daze, too

[Bill Gunter]

Listmates and art lovers,

Richard Stevens admonishes me:

>Sorry dude, That’s mime!
>
>Pantomime on the other hand is a glorious riot of middle aged actors
>charging around a stage doing an interactive kids comedy routine.The
>yheme is often Cinderella or Snow White. It's usually watched by
>hundreds of enthralled young children shouting "behind you".

Au Contraire - this is putting too fine an edge on it. In my complete 
Roget's Thesaurus one finds:

the first synonym for the word mime is pantomime
the first synonym for the word pantomime is mime

In my on-line Webster's dictionary one finds "telling a story using only 
facial expressions and body movements" in the definitions of both "mime" AND 
"pantomime."

I will grant you subtle differences if one wants to split hairs. For 
example, mime seems to be more related to expressing ridiculous absurdities 
and pantomime is possibly more related to expressing humorous stories.

But the main point is that my use of the word "pantomime" to describe street 
performers in whiteface was perfectly correct.

Respectfully submitted,

Bill "Ancient Greek Dramatist" Gunter
jazzboard@hotmail.com


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