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Katherine Dayton

  • Unhappy endings are, of course, de rigueur. A grand opera cannot have a happy ending — unless you consider it a happy ending when all the characters are too dead to sing any longer. Some do.

    • Katherine Dayton,
    • "Gypsies, Nobles, Peasants, Etc.," in Saturday Evening Post ()

Katherine Dayton