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...Frieda (Rank; Universal-International), an English film, is very much in earnest about a subject worth talking about: the question of war guilt among rank-&-file Germans. Unfortunately, the movie hasn't much to recommend it except its earnestness. Most of it is far too obviously a stage play, and a rather elementary problem play at that...
Grounds. In Chicago, Frieda Orlowsky won a divorce when she explained that her husband's Army poker experiences had soured him on all card games, ruined their pleasant evenings of pinochle. In Los Angeles, Marie C. Bauman, calling an end to her 50-year marriage, complained that her parson-husband had abandoned his pulpit to play the ponies with his own "mathematical and scientific method...
...Frau Frieda Budde came to Berlin a year ago, went to live in a tenement at 33 Kolbergerstrasse. She never talked much to her neighbors. Her one friend was Old Man Faseler, who lived in the room next to hers. He spent most of his time in bed, fully clothed, with a cap on his head. Last week, he mumblingly related the climax of his neighbor's story: "She came home that evening frozen stiff. 'Frau Budde,' I said to her. 'You better warm your hands in hot water.' When...
Another grande dame of grand opera packed Town Hall six days later. Busty, strawblonde Frieda Hempel, 60, was history's first Marschallin (she sang it at Rosenkavalier's 1911 premiere in Dresden...
...debut, with Caruso, in 1912, critics raved about the "enormous heights" her voice soared to. Last week her altitudes were a little cloudy, but when she settled on the lower musical plateaus, concertgoers could still recognize some of the golden tone that earned Frieda Hempel a million and a quarter dollars in opera, concerts and Red Seal records...