Could it be?

"Iain Sproat–the former Tory MP who helped clear Wodehouse’s name of the taint of collaborationism–has long maintained that an early Wodehouse short story was on Tolstoy’s bedside table the night he died."

This is a rumor referred to obliquely in an article in the Spectator about a new biography of Roald Dahl, one of whose books was the last edited by Maxwell Perkins.

According to Alex Ross, there's evidence that both Adolf Hitler and Arnold Schoenberg were present at the premiere of Strauss's Salome. Conducted by Gustav Mahler.

I wonder if Ravel saw Louis Armstrong perform.....