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Three times in the last 18 months Fritzi Scheff, creator of the title role in Mile Modiste (1905-08), persuaded judges to postpone foreclosure on her thrice-mortgaged cottage & four acres near Waterbury, Conn. She sang for a while in a Broadway taproom in an unsuccessful effort to raise the $1,500 she needed. Last week, day before final foreclosure. Home Owners Loan Corporation took over her mortgage, gave back to Fritzi Scheff her only home...
...current attraction at the Majestic has captured a wisp of sentiment in the life of Franz Schubert, transplanted it into Vienna in April, woven around it Romberg's adaptations from the "Moonlight Sonata," "The Unfinished Symphony" and lighter tunes, and prettified the whole with gay beaus, 1820 hats, Mitzi, Fritzi, Kitzi, wine and outdoor cafes...
...abroad as that worn by Sir Austen Chamberlain or the late Baron Ehrenfried Gtinther von Hunefeld arrived in Manhattan last week on the S.S. Bremen. It came securely fixed in the eye of German Tenor Richard Tauber who, to perfect the scene, carried a pet dachshund under each arm, Fritzi & Mitzi...
...friend the composer had written. Surprised and delighted was he to discover that the melody written on the daycoach was the hit of the show, called "Kiss Me Again." It is still a good song. Its composer, Victor Herbert, is dead. But the lady who first introduced it, Fritzi Scheff (TIME, Oct. 21, 1929), still sings it. Last winter she took the production from which the song came-Mille. Modiste-on tour. And the journalist is still well and happy. He is General Manager Kent Cooper of the Associated Press...
...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...