Word: jose
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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During one of his early tours of the United States, Paderewski played a concert at San Jose, California. Two ambitious students at Leland Stanford University managed the recital. They had guaranteed the pianist $2,000. The affair was not much of a success. Only a small audience appeared. The box office receipts were only $1,600. The two despairing students went to the pianist's secretary, and, in tones of anguish, told him that they could turn over only the $1,600 at the moment, but that they would pay the other $400 if they were given a little...
Years afterward Paderewski was moving heaven and earth for the relief of the suffering people of Poland. He sought aid on every side. One of the two students who had managed that disastrous concert at San Jose was Herbert Hoover...
...Exile. An historical play of the French Revolution, by Sydney Toler, starring Eleanor Painter and Jose Ruben, in which most of the devices and dodges of court drama are given a Spring airing...
...quickly learned to say San Jose...
...call it rightly San Jose. SIMPLE SIMON...