![]() ![]() ![]() Tom Maschler and his publicity machine at Jonathan Cape gnashed their teeth at their uncooperative, unappealingly anonymous winner, who had spoiled their plans for making this moment a climax rather than an anticlimax, and in the process cost them the chance to turn Masquerade into an ongoing series of similar grand public treasure hunts. Kit Williams shelved his merry-leprechaun persona and went back to his painting. ![]() Rod Argent’s Masquerade musical, which had been all set to make the jump from the Young Vic to the West End, went from a packed house to an empty one overnight, and closed within two weeks. The television segments and newspaper articles ceased almost as quickly as the charter tours and the book signings. One day lagomania gripped Britain the next the hare had been discovered and it was all over except the ennui. ![]()
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