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the stage hairdresser and the man who manufactures the stage thunder are more distant from each other than Parliamentary deputies of the Left and Right wing parties, who are, at least, to a certain extent, professional colleagues.

There is an eternal fight for supremacy between the property-man and the upholsterer. If a table is to be used in a stage setting, the tablecloth is the upholsterer’s business; the plates, on the contrary, are under the property-man’s jurisdiction; while

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