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...that Alma Webster Powell (pictured) earned a law degree from New York University while on a break from her operatic career?
...that the Austrian actor and librettist Karl Lindau co-wrote The Nazi, a comedy, in 1895?
...that Johannes Brahms attended the premiere of the operetta Die Göttin der Vernunft by Johann Strauss, but the composer himself did not, and heard about its reception only by telephone?

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