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...Sopranos Frieda Hempel, Maria Jeritza; Contraltos Gladys Swarthout, Marian Anderson, Louise Homer; Baritone Reinald Werrenrath; Violinist Yehudi Menuhin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Music's Moneybags | 9/21/1942 | See Source »

...detectives waited near the bush, arrested the woman, took her and her package off to a police station. There they found that they had captured none other than famed onetime Metropolitan Opera Soprano Frieda Hempel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Bundles for Brownie | 2/16/1942 | See Source »

Your Milestones column [did not] report the death of Mrs. Frieda Jeffries, wife of the former heavyweight boxing champion, James J. Jeffries...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 17, 1941 | 3/17/1941 | See Source »

...ring again after six years by public clamor for a "White Hope." But that needless humiliation and punishment did more than just mar Jeff's record-it broke his wife's heart. I've never known a woman as devoted to her husband as was Frieda Jeffries. The next day as the train pulled out of Reno she sat holding a little satchel with $177,000 in it-tears streaming down her face! "Mrs. Jeff's" devotion didn't disappear with her husband's money or fame. For 37 years she never wavered once...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 17, 1941 | 3/17/1941 | See Source »

...Frieda Hempel, as Marie, interpolated Keep the Home Fires Burning in the opera...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: TRILLER IN UNIFORM | 12/30/1940 | See Source »

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