what made roald dahl famous?
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 The scandal proved an embarrassment to the reputation of the Royal Navy , then still the world 's largest , and it was satirised at home and abroad through editorials , cartoons , and even a comic jazz oratorio composed by Erwin Schulhoff . One consequence of the damaging affair was an undertaking from the Admiralty to review the means by which naval officers might bring complaints against the conduct of their superiors . 

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 The scandal fuelled the attitude that male homosexuality was an aristocratic vice that corrupted lower @-@ class youths . Such perceptions were still prevalent in 1895 when the Marquess of Queensberry accused Oscar Wilde of being an active homosexual . 

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 Public interest in the scandal eventually faded . Nevertheless , newspaper coverage reinforced negative attitudes about male homosexuality as an aristocratic vice , presenting the telegraph boys as corrupted and exploited by members of the upper class . This attitude reached its climax a few years later when Oscar Wilde was tried for gross indecency as the result of his affair with Lord Alfred Douglas . 

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 The net effect of the Simon Called Peter controversy was to make Keable a celebrity . The book became so well known that F. Scott Fitzgerald , who described the novel as " really immoral " , gave it to protagonist Nick Carraway to read in his famous novel The Great Gatsby , and had the character pronounce " Either it was terrible stuff or the whiskey distorted things , because it didn 't make sense to me . " The book 's sequel , Recompense , was optioned as a film by Warner Brothers , starring Marie Prevost and Monte Blue . Keable himself found the screenplay so altered from the original text , he wryly proposed that he write another novel based on it . His first visit to the United States , in autumn 1924 , was announced in the New York Times ; he took in a production of the Simon Called Peter stage play in New York before returning to Polynesia via New Orleans , Los Angeles , and San Francisco . On his return , the Times printed a very lengthy letter from Keable on the subject of the origins of the cocktail , headlining it " Robert Keable , in His Tahiti Retreat , Makes a Case for Englishmen , or Their " Greek and Roman Ancestors , " as the Inventors . " 

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 In early 1919 , Sibelius enthusiastically decided to change his image , removing his thinning hair . In June , together with Aino , he visited Copenhagen on his first trip outside Finland since 1915 , successfully presenting his Second Symphony . In November he conducted the final version of his Fifth Symphony , receiving repeated ovations from the audience . By the end of the year , he was already working on the Sixth . 
