When The Maltese Falcon was released in Hollywood in 1941 starring Humphrey Bogart and Mary Astor along with a thrilling cast of characters, no one could have known that one of the lines spoken by Bogart’s character, Sam Spade, would become a catch phrase. Movie-goers also wouldn’t have guessed that in the last segment of…
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Well, there I was one fine summer night when New Jersey still had an opera season in Princeton. I had just discovered that one of my favorite operas was playing that evening. Checking the clock, I would have just enough time to put on my ‘going to the opera’ dress and fly on the wings…
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