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In the late spring of 1939, Constantine Jenkins had tickets to see a performance of Tannhäuser at the Staatsoper in Berlin. His date (gender unknown) had to cancel on short notice, but it so happened that Jenkins had a meeting with Peggy Druce the morning of the show. He asked Druce to join her, partly as a ploy to get her out of his office quickly. Not being a Wagner aficionado, Peggy turned to alcohol to increase her enjoyment of the performance, drinking heavily before, during, and after the show, and becoming intoxicated. She ultimately had sex with Jenkins, whom she had always assumed to be a homosexual.

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  • In the late spring of 1939, Constantine Jenkins had tickets to see a performance of Tannhäuser at the Staatsoper in Berlin. His date (gender unknown) had to cancel on short notice, but it so happened that Jenkins had a meeting with Peggy Druce the morning of the show. He asked Druce to join her, partly as a ploy to get her out of his office quickly. Not being a Wagner aficionado, Peggy turned to alcohol to increase her enjoyment of the performance, drinking heavily before, during, and after the show, and becoming intoxicated. She ultimately had sex with Jenkins, whom she had always assumed to be a homosexual.
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  • In the late spring of 1939, Constantine Jenkins had tickets to see a performance of Tannhäuser at the Staatsoper in Berlin. His date (gender unknown) had to cancel on short notice, but it so happened that Jenkins had a meeting with Peggy Druce the morning of the show. He asked Druce to join her, partly as a ploy to get her out of his office quickly. Not being a Wagner aficionado, Peggy turned to alcohol to increase her enjoyment of the performance, drinking heavily before, during, and after the show, and becoming intoxicated. She ultimately had sex with Jenkins, whom she had always assumed to be a homosexual. As for the performance itself, Peggy reflected that, as Wagner went, Tannhäuser was relatively inoffensive to her sensibilities, with a comparatively muted score. She was not a lover of overblown Wagnerian opera. Josef Goebbels and Hermann Göring were in attendance at the same opera. Adolf Hitler was not, despite his noted love of Wagner. Peggy wondered if he might have stayed away as a security precaution.
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