Cinderella pantomime in both story and style at the Royal Strand Theatre in 1860: "Cinderella! Or the Lover, the Lackey, and the Little Glass Slipper". In the traditional pantomime version the opening scene takes place in a forest with a hunt in progress; here Cinderella first meets Prince Charming and his "right-hand man" Dandini, whose name and character come from Gioachino Rossini's opera ("La Cenerentola"). Cinderella mistakes Dandini for the Prince and the Prince for Dandini. Her father, Baron Hardup, is under the thumb of his two stepdaughters, the Ugly sisters, and has a servant, Cinderella's friend Buttons. (Throughout the pantomime,
Pantomime Quiz Pantomime Quiz Pantomime Quiz, initially titled "Pantomime Quiz Time" and later "Stump the Stars", was an American television game show produced and hosted by Mike Stokey. Running from 1947—1959, it has the distinction of being one of the few television series—along with "The Arthur Murray Party"; "Down You Go"; "The Ernie Kovacs Show", "The Original Amateur Hour"; and "Tom Corbett, Space Cadet"—to air on all four TV networks in the US during the Golden Age of Television. Based on the parlor game of Charades, "Pantomime Quiz" was first broadcast locally in Los Angeles from November 13, 1947, to 1949. In