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...mammoth meals, washed down by heroic quantities of aquavit and Danish beer. He traveled widely and was an enthusiastic big-game hunter. (He liked to wear the skin of a deer he had bagged as his costume in Siegfried.) He took great joy in entertaining friends with his wife "Kleinchen" during festive holidays like Christmas, when he unabashedly decked himself out as a jolly Santa Claus...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: The Magnificent Giant | 4/2/1973 | See Source »

...Hacker was making a parachute jump for a film when a gust of wind blew her off course and into a garden where she landed directly in front of the startled Melchior. A few months later in May of 1925, she gave up her career to become his devoted Kleinchen (Little...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Mar. 1, 1963 | 3/1/1963 | See Source »

...evening over, jovial, gargantuan (225-lb.) Tenor Melchior and his pocket-sized (110-lb.) wife, Maria ("Kleinchen") took 85 guests to the Swedish Three Crowns restaurant, drank aquavit (Scandinavian 88-proof potato liquor) and beer chasers. Said he: "Now I can take a deep breath and start life again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Deep Breath | 2/25/1946 | See Source »

...weeks smoked shanks and shoulders cluttered the Melchior home, hung in closets, dangled out the windows over busy Broadway. He tried to eat it all, but failed. His friends finally saved the situation by carrying away and loy ally consuming presents of bear meat until the supply was exhausted. Kleinchen does not like hunting. But she likes Melchior. Says she: "I am a married woman, and very happy. I try to make a nice home...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Great Dane | 1/22/1940 | See Source »

...diets in summer to keep his weight down to 225 Ibs., he takes his winter opera performances in his stride, often eats heavy meals before he goes to the opera house, smokes all the cigars he wants to, drinks his aqvavit neat. His brown-eyed, Bavarian-born wife Kleinchen (real name Maria Hacker), who could almost be tucked into one of the pockets of his massive vest, keeps him well fed and amused. One of the things about her that amuses him most is the way they met. Originally a cinema actress with the old German UFA films, Frau Melchior...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Great Dane | 1/22/1940 | See Source »

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