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A fallen prima donna.

--Madame Biecaccianti, formerly a prima donna, has sank so low, morally and professionally, that she is now nightly singing for the delectation of fast young men in San Francisco, where flashy "pretty waiter girls" dispense smirks and bad rum.

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