Word: bardeleben
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Instead they brought her a vogue all her own. After three years at the Metropolitan, Charles Dillingham offered her the then fabulous sum of $1,000 a week, a company of her own and roles made to order. Immediately, and despite the objections of her new husband, Baron von Bardeleben, she accepted and became the light opera star...
Fritzi Scheff, prima donna, prospered but Husband von Bardeleben went into bankruptcy with his postcard & valentine business. Soon after came a divorce and Novelist John Fox Jr. (Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come, Trail of the Lonesome Pine) succeeded him, was in turn succeeded by her manager, George Anderson, who was divorced in 1920. Since then Fritzi Scheff's fortunes have varied too. Good comic operas have been scarce since the days of Victor Herbert. Tales of temperament have frightened some managers. She has been forced to occasional vaudeville towns, to doing Modiste over the radio, taking a turn...
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