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From: Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service
Date: 19950518
Author:Harris, Linda K.

Q. Is there really a phantom of the opera? _Kate Newman

A. When Gaston Leroux, a theater critic, published his novel in France in 1911, he told everyone that it was based on real events. These events were said to have occurred about 30 years earlier. He said the Paris Opera House had been troubled by sinister deaths. A man who was frightening and mysterious lived in the cavernous spaces beneath the building. Not much attention was paid to the novel when it was first published. But in 1925, Hollywood produced its first film version of ``The Phantom of the Opera.'' Remakes of the ...

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