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Al Jaffee and Will Elder together at the High School for Music and Arts in NYC in 1936.
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Four Saints in Three Acts
The Virgil Thompson opera, Four Saints in Three Acts, with a libretto by Gertrude Stein, in fact involved more than twenty saints. In four acts. Other lies: Stein claimed that it would "finish opera the way that Picasso finished oil painting." Neither was finished.