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In the last year of Oscar Wilde’s life I was treasurer of the Grand Opera House of New York. In that capacity I was sent to Europe to conclude some theatrical contracts. The name Grand Opera House meant a great deal more in Paris than it did in New York. To most people I was not the humble traveling clerk of a second-class New York theatre, but the incarnation of metropolitan opera. In fact, many people mistook me for the direct representative of the Metropolitan Opera Company, and treated me as such.
Theatre Magazine (New York), xxvll (June 1918) 370.
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Thornton, B. (1979). Oscar Wilde — A Reminiscence. In: Mikhail, E.H. (eds) Oscar Wilde. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-03926-5_45
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