Sure, the waiter readily answered her questions about the venue's history, complete with a charming story about how "Oklahoma!"

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The story, which at first seemed like a charming Disney-like fairytale, actually is bleak and almost disturbing, like a non-charming, 18th century fairytale.

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It would have been so easy for him, my charming brother, to make a sleek drama of his story, but he did not.

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The story is a bit of fluff, its charming characters engaged in a mix-up so contrived it beggars even theatrical suspension of disbelief: The penniless Count and Countess Waldner hope to marry their daughter Arabella to a wealthy man, and since they can't afford to launch younger daughter Zdenka into society at the same time, they have her dress as a boy.

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