Word: concert
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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WASHINGTON -- Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt has resigned from the Daughters of the American Revolution in protest against the organization's refusal to permit Marian Anderson, noted Negro contralto, to present a concert at Constitution Hall, it was indicated tonight...
...piano for four years. Rumors spread that the great Paderewski had forgotten how to play. But in 1922, his red-gold hair now silver, Paderewski staged a comeback, proved that he was still the only living virtuoso who could gross half a million dollars on a U. S. concert tour...
When in 1933 aged Trouper Paderewski walked stiffly up to a piano in Manhattan's Madison Square Garden to play the last concert of his 19th U. S. tour, most of the throng of 20,000 believed they were hearing him for the last time...
...alone in the world with a hopelessly crippled son* to support. For years he roamed Europe teaching in schools and conservatories, earning enough to keep his son cared for and himself alive. He was always sure, in spite of gloomy predictions, that he would one day become a great concert artist...
...chance came in 1884 when, at a Polish summer resort, he met the great Polish Actress Helena Modjeska. To Modjeska, then the toast of half the theatres of the world, he confided his ambitions. Graciously she suggested a joint concert in Cracow, at which he would play and she would appear in dramatic recitations. The concert was given. Modjeska's name on the billboards acted like magic, and Paderewski was up the first notch in his laborious climb to fame...