Many of you may remember from your grade school days a novel by Mark Twain titled, The Prince and the Pauper. It has been adapted in various forms of Disney productions and even a few cartoon tales. The Twain story begins with two boys with identical features — one a spoiled royal heir, and the other a street urchin surviving on his wits. By chance they meet. The pauper is enamored with the fineries of the palace, while the prince envies the pauper's freedom to come and go as he chooses.

Eventually, they agree to change clothes and identities, and each then endures a series of misadventures as they seek to survive the other's life. In the process, the pampered prince discovers the hard realities of being subject to another's merciless power, and the pauper learns that having royal authori…