{{Short description|(1874–1956) dancer and producer}} {{Infobox person | name = Minnie Rebecca Everett | image = Minnie Everett 1927.png | image_size = | caption = in 1927 | birth_name = | birth_date = 28 June 1874 | birth_place = Beaufort, Victoria, Australia | death_date = {{death date and age|7 June 1956|28 June 1874}} | death_place = | death_cause = | other_names = | known_for = first woman producer of Gilbert and Sullivan operettas | education = | employer = | occupation = | footnotes = }} '''Minnie Everett''' (28 June 1874 – 7 June 1956) was an Australian ballet-mistress and theatre and opera producer, closely associated with the J. C. Williamson's theatre company. She was the world's first woman producer of Gilbert and Sullivan operettas.
==Early life== Everett was born in Beaufort, Victoria to Eliza Ann Everett, née Hardy, (c. 1836 – 24 August 1906)<ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article201669382 |title=Family Notices |newspaper=The Age |issue=16067 |location=Victoria, Australia |date=8 September 1906 |access-date=14 March 2022 |page=7 |via=National Library of Australia}}</ref> and George Everett, a bricklayer, later builder,<!--advertising for bricklayers 1890 "late George Everett" in 1906; maybe living at Bush Inn; no death notice--> migrants from England.<ref name=adb>{{cite book|author=Joan Maslen |title=Australian Dictionary of Biography: Everett, Minnie Rebecca (1874–1956) |chapter=Everett, Minnie Rebecca (1874–1956) |publisher=National Centre of Biography, Australian National University |url=https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/everett-minnie-rebecca-10135/text17895 |year=1996 |access-date=13 March 2022}}</ref> After the family moved to Melbourne, Minnie attended Bell Street State School, where her talent for dancing was encouraged by a teacher, M. Massartie,{{efn|Here ''M.'' may be an initial rather than the usual abbrev. for "Monsieur", and the widow of Gustave Massartie, who died 11 December 1885, aged 53.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article196981485 |title=Family Notices |newspaper=The Age |issue=11,169 |location=Victoria, Australia |date=11 December 1890 |access-date=12 September 2022 |page=1 |via=National Library of Australia}}</ref>}} who also inculcated in her a love of the French language.
==Career== Her first stage experience was a small part in the Leopold troupe's production of ''Uncle Tom's Cabin''. At age 13, she was engaged by the Simonsen Grand Italian Opera Company, who were playing at the Alexandra Theatre (later Her Majesty's), under ballet-mistress Emilia Pasta.{{efn|Signora Pasta had performed as a ''danseuse'' with the Royal Italian Opera in Australia 1876–1879, later conducted ballet classes in Melbourne until at least 1914.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article189397307 |title=Advertising |newspaper=The Age |issue=18,386 |location=Victoria, Australia |date=21 February 1914 |access-date=15 March 2022 |page=19 |via=National Library of Australia}}</ref>}}
In 1888, she appeared for Williamson, Garner and Musgrove in the pantomime ''Sinbad the Sailor'' at the Theatre Royal. This was the beginning of a long relationship with what became "The Firm" of J. C. Williamson's. Williamson was so pleased with the ballet that he organised special coaching from E. W. "Teddy" Royce and the strict Mrs Royce (Marie Reddall) for eight of the dancers, including Everett. In 1891 the "Royal Ballerinas" (named for the theatre) consisted of Laura Healy, Lucy Cobb, Ethel Dale, Minnie Everett, Mildred Osborne, Lizzie Cassellis, Katie Ward, Annie Clifford, Lillie Forbes, Vera de Lissa, Nina Prince, and Jessie McLean.
In January–February 1894, they appeared in the pantomime ''Aladdin'' at Her Majesty's, and at the conclusion of their act, were conveyed to the Princess's Theatre to appear in the comic opera ''Dorothy'', starring Nellie Stewart. In 1894 Williamson's Royal Ballerinas (by this time consisting of Healy, Cobb, Dale, Everett, Osborne, and Cassellis) became an integral part of the Royal Comic Opera Company.
Everett was introduced to Gilbert and Sullivan opera in ''The Gondoliers'' at Her Majesty's Theatre, Brisbane in July 1891, and in September ''The Mikado'' with Nellie Stewart as Yum Yum and the "domineering" Howard Vernon as the Lord High Executioner.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article48243684 |title=Amusements |newspaper=South Australian Register |volume=LVI |issue=13,993 |location=South Australia |date=18 September 1891 |access-date=19 March 2022 |page=7 |via=National Library of Australia}}</ref>
===As choreographer=== She left Williamson to work as ballet mistress for Henry Bracy in 1896. Their first production was Karl Millöcker's'' The Beggar Student'' at the Sydney Lyceum, for which she choreographed a grand Polish mazurka ballet.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article126251454 |title=Before the Curtain |newspaper=The Sunday Times (Sydney) |issue=585 |location=New South Wales, Australia |date=7 March 1897 |access-date=1 April 2022 |page=2 |via=National Library of Australia}}</ref> The operetta proved a financial failure and bankruptcy appeared imminent, so when J. C. Williamson offered a similar position, as Madame Phillipini's future replacement, she accepted. In the meantime she worked with comedian George Lauri's troupe, touring country centres; a dismal season that terminated with the loss of his scenery and props in a theatre fire at Bourke.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article126244891 |title=Bourke Theatre Burnt |newspaper=Sunday Times (Sydney) |issue=619 |location=New South Wales, Australia |date=7 November 1897 |access-date=19 March 2022 |page=10 |via=National Library of Australia}}</ref>
In November 1898, as promised, JCW appointed Everett as ballet mistress, Madame Phillipini having left to return to England.{{efn|Rosalie Phillipini died in 1931.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article242947897 |title=Link with Australian Stage Broken |newspaper=The Herald (Melbourne) |issue=16,866 |location=Victoria, Australia |date=8 June 1931 |access-date=4 April 2022 |page=4 |via=National Library of Australia}}</ref>}} In 1898 she created the dances for ''The Geisha'' and led the ''corps''.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article180222356 |title=Ladys Letter |newspaper=Melbourne Punch |volume= |location=Victoria, Australia |date=29 December 1898 |access-date=10 September 2022 |page=19 |via=National Library of Australia}}</ref> She appeared as Williamson's ''première danseuse'' of the Royal Ballerinas, of which in 1899 she was made (first Australian-born) director.<ref>{{cite thesis|url=https://rest.neptune-prod.its.unimelb.edu.au/server/api/core/bitstreams/17199346-147b-527f-86fe-9af0f26e240c/content |author=Marie Ada Couper |title=Remembering Edouard Borovansky and His Company 1939–1959 |access-date=10 September 2022}}</ref> She returned to Sydney and was immediately put to work by Williamson in a pantomime starring Ada Reeve as Robin Hood. Another pantomime, ''The Forty Thieves'' followed in 1899, then Owen Hall's well received reworking of ''The Geisha'', with Everett's choreography, the cast including her sister Lily Everett and George Lauri.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article165230337 |title=Drama. |newspaper=The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser |volume=LXVII |issue=2019 |location=New South Wales, Australia |date=18 March 1899 |access-date=4 April 2022 |page=616 |via=National Library of Australia}}</ref> Lauri took his own life a few years later.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article120630333 |title=Theatrical Notes |newspaper=The Referee |issue=1157 |location=New South Wales, Australia |date=6 January 1909 |access-date=19 March 2022 |page=10 |via=National Library of Australia}}</ref>
In 1914, she produced pantomimes in South Africa for Williamson; in 1916 she produced ''High Jinks'' in London to become the "toast of the town".<ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article147288515 |title=Producing a London Musical Comedy |newspaper=Table Talk |issue=3348 |location=Victoria, Australia |date=7 July 1932 |access-date=11 September 2022 |page=24 |via=National Library of Australia}}</ref>
As ballet mistress for thirty years, she created and produced dances for most of J. C. Williamson Ltd's productions. A famous story has her rebuking the 16-year-old <!--so c. 1925--> Robert Helpman, who had no doubts as to his star quality, "You'll never be any good as a dancer", and demoted him to understudy.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article131841138 |title=Sir Robert Helpmann |newspaper=The Canberra Times |volume=61 |issue=18,625 |location=Australian Capital Territory, Australia |date=29 September 1986 |access-date=10 September 2022 |page=2 |via=National Library of Australia}}</ref> Hazel Meldrum was for years her assistant, also to Minnie Hooper, before she founded a school of her own.
===Gilbert and Sullivan 1920=== Everett was producer for the Williamsons' grand opera season of 1920, which marked her first collaboration with Gustave Slapoffski,<ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article234219891 |title=Minnie Everett, Producer |newspaper=Smith's Weekly |volume=II |issue=22 |location=New South Wales, Australia |date=24 July 1920 |access-date=5 April 2022 |page=20 |via=National Library of Australia}} In that issue the critic expressed a wish to see and hear Fred Collier and Browning Mummery in G & S.</ref> JCW's conductor and musical director since 1900. It was followed. at Her Majesty's Theatre, Melbourne, by a very successful season of G & S operas: *''The Mikado'' opened 7 August 1920, with Charles Walenn as the Lord High Executioner, Frederick Hobbs in the name part, and James Hay as Nanki Poo, to favorable notices.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article222553923 |title=Plays and Players |newspaper=The Weekly Times |issue=2,662 |location=Victoria, Australia |date=14 August 1920 |accessdate=17 April 2022 |page=36 |via=National Library of Australia}}</ref> *''The Yeomen of the Guard'' from 21 August, with Walenn as Jack Point and Strella Wilson as Elsie Maynard *''Iolanthe'' from 4 September was an unexpected success.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article140264515 |title=Entertainments |newspaper=The Australasian |volume=CIX |issue=2,841 |location=Victoria, Australia |date=11 September 1920 |accessdate=17 April 2022 |page=39 |via=National Library of Australia}}</ref> *''The Gondoliers'' from 18 September. Walenn starred again as the Duke of Plaza-Toro, with the English comedian Albert Kavanagh as the Grand Inquisitor and Ethel Morrison as the Duchess. Everett was called to take the audience' applause at the final curtain.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article146691610 |title=Her Majesty's Theatre |newspaper=Table Talk |issue=1834 |location=Victoria, Australia |date=23 September 1920 |accessdate=17 April 2022 |page=25 |via=National Library of Australia}}</ref> *''Patience'' from 9 October *''HMS Pinafore'' opened 16 October. Everett choreographed a hornpipe dance to extend the second act, but though well received by the audience was not welcomed by one reviewer.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article206931382 |title=Her Majesty's H.M.S Pinafore |newspaper=The Age |issue=20,454 |location=Victoria, Australia |date=18 October 1920 |accessdate=17 April 2022 |page=8 |via=National Library of Australia}}</ref> *''The Pirates of Penzance'' from 6 November with Strella Wilson as Mabel and Villiers Arnold as Samuel. The Sydney season opened with ''The Mikado'' at Her Majesty's Theatre on 27 November, followed by ''Yeoman of the Guard'', ''Iolanthe'', ''The Gondoliers'', ''Patience'', ''Pinafore'', and ''The Pirates of Penzance''.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article239766571 |title=Plays and Players |newspaper=The Daily Telegraph (Sydney) |issue=12952 |location=New South Wales, Australia |date=13 November 1920 |accessdate=17 April 2022 |page=8 |via=National Library of Australia}}</ref> and closed with ''The Mikado'' in March 1921. They returned to Melbourne, to play ''Princess Ida'' at the Tivoli, with a farewell performance by Strella Wilson.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article201693065 |title=Gilbert & Sullivan Opera |newspaper=The Age |issue=20,573 |location=Victoria, Australia |date=7 March 1921 |access-date=18 April 2022 |page=7 |via=National Library of Australia}}</ref>
===Gilbert and Sullivan 1926=== JCW's Gilbert and Sullivan season began at the Theatre Royal, Adelaide on 3 April with ''The Gondoliers'' for the first week, followed by ''Yeomen''. Walenn, Wilson and Hay had rejoined the company; Leo Darnton, Sydney Granville, and Winifred Williamson<ref>{{cite web|url=https://gsarchive.net/whowaswho/W/WilliamsonWinifred.htm |title=Who Was Who in the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company (1875–1982): Winifred Williamson |publisher=Gerald Stone, G&S Archive|access-date=16 July 2022}}</ref> were new to Australia and Patti Russell, Mabel Gibson, Bernard Manning, and Lance Fairfax were new to the company. The musical director was Harry Jacobs. That theatre later saw Australia's first professional production of ''Ruddigore'' on 23 June 1927, produced by James Hay,<ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article54266091 |title="Ruddigore" |newspaper=The Register (Adelaide) |volume=XCII |issue=26,787 |location=South Australia |date=24 June 1927 |access-date=10 September 2022 |page=11 |via=National Library of Australia}}</ref> almost 20 years after the first amateur production.{{efn|The Petersham Choral Society played ''Ruddigore'' at the Petersham Town Hall 4–7 August 1908.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article114752297 |title="Ruddigore" at Petersham |newspaper=The Evening News (Sydney) |issue=12,841 |location=New South Wales, Australia |date=5 August 1908 |access-date=10 September 2022 |page=8 |via=National Library of Australia}}</ref>}}
His Majesty's Theatre, Melbourne followed, commencing 17 April with ''Gondoliers'',<ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article201632146 |title=The Gondoliers |newspaper=The Age |issue=22164 |location=Victoria, Australia |date=19 April 1926 |accessdate=11 May 2022 |page=11 |via=National Library of Australia}}</ref> followed on 3 May with ''Yeomen'', ''Pirates'' from 15 May, ''The Mikado'' from 29 May, ''Pinafore'' from 19 June, ''Iolanthe'' from 3 July and ''Princess Ida'' from 17 July. Jacobs was conductor until 3 July, when Slapoffski returned to the podium.
His Majesty's Theatre, Brisbane was next, with ''Gondoliers'' 2–3 August, ''Yeomen'', 4–6 August, and ''Pirates'' 7–9, ''Mikado'' 10–12, ''Pinafore'' and ''Trial by Jury'' 13–14, Iolanthe 16–18.
The Sydney season opened on 27 December with ''Gondoliers'' at the ''Theatre Royal'', ''Yeomen'' on 8 January, ''Iolanthe'' 22 January, ''Pirates'' 5 February, ''Mikado'' 19 February, ''Princess Ida'' 12 March, ''Patience'' 19 March, and ''Pinafore'' with ''Trial by Jury'' 26 March.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article223230223 |title="Patience" Next Saturday |newspaper=The Sun (Sydney) |issue=5104 |location=New South Wales, Australia |date=17 March 1927 |access-date=12 May 2022 |page=18 |via=National Library of Australia}}</ref>
The company returned to the Theatre Royal, Adelaide, for three weeks from 16 April to 6 May 1927, playing seven pieces, starting with ''The Mikado'' and ending with ''Patience''.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article43573623 |title="Patience" |newspaper=The Advertiser (Adelaide) |location=South Australia |date=7 May 1927 |access-date=10 September 2022 |page=17 |via=National Library of Australia}}</ref> On top of her Gilbert and Sullivan duties, Everett produced the dance scenes for Lehar's ''Frasquita'', produced by Charles Wenman for Williamson.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article16370501 |title="Frasquita" |newspaper=The Sydney Morning Herald |issue=27,857 |location=New South Wales, Australia |date=18 April 1927 |access-date=15 May 2022 |page=4 |via=National Library of Australia}}</ref>
===Gilbert and Sullivan 1931–32=== The tour began with Adelaide in March 1931, commencing with ''Gondoliers'', ''Yeomen'', and ''Pirates''. Imported players from the Doyly Carte stable included Ivan Menzies, Gregory Stroud and Dorothy Gill.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article205823086 |title=Gilbert and Sullivan |newspaper=The Age |issue=23,697 |location=Victoria, Australia |date=23 March 1931 |access-date=18 April 2022 |page=11 |via=National Library of Australia}}</ref> Other members were Marie Bremner, Leo Darnton, Bernard Manning, John Ralston, Alban Whitehead, Maisie Ramsay, and Mary Hotham, with Gustave Slapoffski conductor.
Everett returned to Williamson's in September 1932 to produce another G & S season at the Theatre Royal, this time including ''The Sorcerer'' and ''Ruddigore''.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article243035812 |title=Gilbert and Sullivan |newspaper=The Herald (Melbourne) |issue=17,258 |location=Victoria, Australia |date=6 September 1932 |accessdate=18 April 2022 |page=6 |via=National Library of Australia}}</ref> In later years it would be said of Everett that she knew by heart every word, every note, gesture and action for all the G.& S. operettas except for ''Ruddigore'', and its historic first professional staging (at Adelaide's Theatre Royal in 1927) was not by Everett but by James Hay. However, she made good the omission in Melbourne 1–8 October 1932
Sydney followed in September 1935 at the Theatre Royal; the cast included Ivan Menzies, Evelyn Gardiner, Gregory Stroud, Winifred Lawson, Richard Watson, Godfrey Stirling, and Bernard Manning.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article17190231 |title=Gilbert and Sullivan |newspaper=The Sydney Morning Herald |issue=30,489 |location=New South Wales, Australia |date=21 September 1935 |accessdate=18 April 2022 |page=10 |via=National Library of Australia}}</ref> [[File:Minnie Everett Musical Comedy Company’s ‘Sally’ produced at the City Hall, Mentone, 1947.jpg|thumb|Minnie Everett Musical Comedy Company’s ‘Sally’ produced at the City Hall, Mentone in 1947]] She produced another season in July 1940, again starring Ivan Menzies and Evelyn Gardiner with newcomers Viola Wilson and John Fullard.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article142141500 |title=Gilbert and Sullivan Season Opens |newspaper=The Australasian |volume=CXLIX |issue=4,777 |location=Victoria, Australia |date=20 July 1940 |accessdate=18 April 2022 |page=16 |via=National Library of Australia}}</ref> Everett then retired, but maintained an interest in amateur theatrics and in 1955 directed ''The Mikado'' for the Victorian Council of Adult Education. She still had what it takes.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article266299217 |title=Veteran Goes Back on the Stage |newspaper=The Daily News (Perth) |volume=LXXIII |issue=24,409 |location=Western Australia |date=16 February 1955 |access-date=10 September 2022 |page=15 |via=National Library of Australia}}</ref>
She died barely a year later.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article71807844 |title='Miss Ballet' dies, 81 |newspaper=The Argus (Melbourne) |location=Victoria, Australia |date=8 June 1956 |access-date=10 September 2022 |page=5 |via=National Library of Australia}}</ref> She was fond of a smoke, so the story goes, and while lighting a cigarette at Prahran on 22 May 1956 she set her dressing gown on fire, and collapsed. Stephanie Guy was giving singing lessons to one Glenda McAlpin in the next room and heard the thud. They rushed into the room, smothered the flames with blankets and called an ambulance, but she died a fortnight later at The Alfred Hospital. Coroner Duggan found that death was accidental.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article71653371 |title=She died for a smoke |newspaper=The Argus (Melbourne) |location=Victoria, Australia |date=23 August 1956 |access-date=13 March 2022 |page=9 |via=National Library of Australia}}</ref>
Her remains were cremated.
==Family== On 28 November 1895<ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article197203676 |title=Family Notices |newspaper=The Age |issue=12,724 |location=Victoria, Australia |date=10 December 1895 |access-date=19 March 2022 |page=1 |via=National Library of Australia}}</ref> Everett married William W Rice<ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article197203676 |title=Family Notices |newspaper=The Age |issue=12,724 |location=Victoria, Australia |date=10 December 1895 |access-date=10 September 2022 |page=1 |via=National Library of Australia}}</ref> (c. 1869 – 30 July 1931), violist in J. C. Williamson's orchestra, son of conductor Watty Rice, and older<ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article246141782 |title=Gave Blood in Death Set |newspaper=The Daily Telegraph (Sydney) |volume=1 |issue=4 |location=New South Wales, Australia |date=19 February 1931 |access-date=10 September 2022 |page=8 |via=National Library of Australia}}</ref> brother of tennis player Horace Rice (1872–1950), and a decent cricketer himself. They had at least one daughter, who married V. C. Anderson.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article135313075 |title=Great Families in Games |newspaper=The Referee |issue=2401 |location=New South Wales, Australia |date=29 March 1933 |access-date=10 September 2022 |page=24 |via=National Library of Australia}}</ref>
The actress Lillian "Lily" Everett, of the Royal Comic Opera Company,<ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article175407072 |title=Greenroom Gossip. |newspaper=Melbourne Punch |volume= |location=Victoria, Australia |date=29 December 1904 |access-date=15 March 2022 |page=28 |via=National Library of Australia}}</ref> was a sister. She married dentist Harry Morton Kilgour (1871 – 27 July 1941) of Kiama, New South Wales, founded the School of Arts Dramatic Club in that town, and had two daughters, Bettina "Betty" and Joan,<ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article102391677 |title=Obituary. |newspaper=The Kiama Reporter and Illawarra Journal |location=New South Wales, Australia |date=30 July 1941 |access-date=15 March 2022 |page=3 |via=National Library of Australia}}</ref> then settled in New Zealand. In 1889 both Lily and Minnie Everett were members of the Royal Ballerinas.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article235870181 |title=Advertising |newspaper=The Daily Telegraph (Sydney) |issue=3039 |location=New South Wales, Australia |date=17 April 1889 |access-date=17 March 2022 |page=2 |via=National Library of Australia}}</ref>
==Further reading== ''My Dancing Days'', a series of reminiscences by Everett in 1932 for ''Table Talk'', a Melbourne weekly: *[https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/147289055 1: Early environment] *[https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/147288293 2: Production then and now] *[https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/147287326 3: Some early pantomimes] *[https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/147287262 4: The famous Poi ballet] *[https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/147289163 5: In Auckland] *[https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/147287507 6: New York; My first dancing school] *[https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/147287846 7: South Africa with J.C.W.] *[https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/147288515 8: Wartime London] *[https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/147288001 9: Grand Opera] *[https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/147288595 10: Gilbert and Sullivan] *[https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/147288428 11: Conclusion]
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