Word: frieda
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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George Biddle's 45 war pictures were pen drawings of U.S. soldiers in Africa and Italy. His 34 prewar oils were landscapes of California, Texas, Brazil, some still lifes, several portraits. One large canvas pictured a monumental, seated Frieda Lawrence (widow of late great Brit ish Novelist D. H. Lawrence), her chill eyes peering from a heavy face, fringes of her shawl spilling like black blood from...
Painter Brett dropped her British title when she became a U.S. citizen (1938). She now lives in a one-room adobe studio in art-conscious Taos, dines once a week with her great friend Frieda (von Richthofen) Lawrence, sees much of Taos Art Matriarch Mabel Dodge Luhan and her Pueblo Indian husband, Tony...
...Lady Chatterley was discovered last spring by staid Author Esther Forbes (Paul Revere, and The World He Lived In, TIME, June 29, 1942) when she visited Santa Fe Anthropologist William Hougland. Hougland is the unofficial literary agent of Lawrence's widow, Frieda von Richthofen Lawrence.* He told Author Forbes about the present draft of Lady Chatterley which had remained in Lawrence's bound notebooks for 18 years...
...A.S.P.C.A. finally captured the "wild dog" for whom ex-Opera Star Frieda Hempel has daily been leaving food in Manhattan's Central Park for the past five years. (Suspicious neighbors who thought she was getting rid of hot loot got her investigated by police last February.) The diva decided to take the animal home, install it in temperature-controlled luxury. For a wild dog the molasses-colored mongrel had an even disposition, a splendid coat. Likely cause for these genteel qualities was the Hempel diet: good beef, carrots, melba toast, cod-liver oil, and sometimes mineral...
...Sopranos Frieda Hempel, Maria Jeritza; Contraltos Gladys Swarthout, Marian Anderson, Louise Homer; Baritone Reinald Werrenrath; Violinist Yehudi Menuhin...