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Poor butterfly
After a local anti-Japanese group threatens to ban the production of Madame Butterfly at a San Francisco opera house, investigator Toby Peters is on the scene searching for clues concerning possible death threats against the opera's conductor.
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- "After a local anti-Japanese group threatens to ban the production of Madame Butterfly at a San Francisco opera house, investigator Toby Peters is on the scene searching for clues concerning possible death threats against the opera's conductor."@en
- "The time is 1942, just shortly after America's entry into WW II. The San Francisco Metropolitan Opera has decided to re-open with a production of Puccini's "Madame Butterly". When a workman dies under suspicious circumstance and anti-Japanese sentiments start to arise, L.A. private eye Toby Peters is hired to see that the show goes on."
- "In San Francisco during World War II, conductor Leopold Stokowski has decided to stage a new production of Puccini's Madame Butterfly. Local anti-Japanese sentiment threatens the opening of the opera. When a workman falls-or was pushed-from a high scaffold and a series of mysterious death threats appear, Stokowski cues private eye Toby Peters to see to it that the show will go on."@en
- "The year 1942 is a bad time to stage Madame Butterfly . Although Puccini's masterpiece is a perennial favorite of the San Francisco opera crowd, its sympathetic depiction of a Japanese girl causes tension in the dark months following Pearl Harbor. Newspaper editorialists rage against the production, opera buffs picket the theater, and a note appears nailed to the house door, threatening violence against the cast and crew. When the first workman dies, the maestro calls Toby Peters, a Los Angeles detective who works discreetly for Hollywood's rich and famous. Two days remain before the opening night, and the body count continues to rise. As he hunts for this self-styled phantom of the opera, Toby falls for one of the company starlets. They must tread lightly, or risk a death more dramatic than anything Puccini ever dreamed up."@en