Afterward, Mr. Leroux invited her into the kitchen and asked what else she had in her meadow.

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The guy heading this up for the company, Leroux Jooste, is the same guy who brought Enbrel to market.

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This lavish retelling of Gaston Leroux's immortal horror tale stars Claude Rains as the masked phantom who haunts the Paris Opera House.

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Drawn by Joachim Ferrer and handsomely bound by Georges Leroux, who died recently, it is the only copy of this work and was created especially for Mr Gillet.

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But while Lloyd Webber's hi-tech take seemed to prove the optimum format for the story, it is just one of numerous retellings, all deriving from a 1910 novel by French journalist and author Gaston Leroux.

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