Everyone knows now that great Richard Wagner was a selfish, mercenary person who used everyone, lived on the bounty of Otto Wesendonck while philandering with his wife, borrowed money right & left always with the air of conferring a favor. Wagner made Germany pay heavily for the honor of fatherlanding himself and his operas. No other composer has ever lived to see a theatre existing solely for the production of his own works. But not until last week did it become known that Wagner had offered himself to the U. S. for a million...
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