Word: modjeska
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...last quarter of the 19th Century, Central City, Colo, (pop.; 572) perched on the edge of a Rocky Mountain canyon 50 miles west of Denver, was a booming mine town. Bernhardt, Modjeska, Booth and Jefferson played on the stage of its massive Opera House...
...going to meet one of the most extraordinary young men you ever met." Two fast-traveling carriages had drawn up side by side in a Polish mountain village and the lovely Helena Gorska Baroness de Rosen, bound for Paris, was calling out to her friend, Actress Helena Modjeska on her way home from a U. S. tour...
That was 50 years ago. When she arrived in Zakopane, Modjeska met Ignace Jan Paderewski, a slender, golden-haired youth who had begun to doubt whether he could ever achieve a concert career. Modjeska helped him with money, made him give a concert in Cracow at which she recited. Some years later Baroness Helena became Paderewski's wife. Fortnight ago she died in Switzerland (TIME, Jan. 29). Last week appeared the first important biography to tell how Paderewski, encouraged by both the Helenas, became the great pianist and patriot he is today...
Most of the world's great pianists have been well launched on their careers at 20. At that age Paderewski started his real study, learned what discouragement was. At 24 he met Modjeska, gave the Cracow concert and went to Vienna to learn from the great Leschetitsky who hesitated to accept him for a pupil because he was "rather beyond the age." At 26 Paderewski made his Viennese debut, to be followed by the conquest of Paris and Baroness Helena who made it her business to care for the invalid son Alfred until his death...
...there were always the summer holidays at Barmouth, at John o'Groat's, or on the island of Jersey, where he climbed rocks and swam with such of his father's students as "Q" Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch. On one occasion, at Cadgwith it was, young Grant surprised Madame Modjeska and Forbes-Robertson deuning the "ample bathing dresses of the time" under enormous towels. "Go away, rude little boy", one of the ladies called out; and he ran off ashamed at his unmannerly curiosity...