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...hands and beat time, and grinned at the audience, and said something. And the man in the row behind one laughed aloud, and then everybody giggled. For the little man was really outdoing himself. And Beethoven died and went to Hell, and everybody was frightfully amused at Mr. de Pachmann...
...Carnegie Hall, Manhattan, Vladimir de Pachmann, famed Russian pianist, aged 75 (TIME, Sept. 10), gave a recital on the pianoforte -his first in America in twelve years. Standees packed the parquet five deep...
Lawrence Gilman (Tribune) : "Mr. Vladimir de Pachmann brought his inimitable one-man vaudeville show into town last night. .' . . Mr. de Pachmann favored his audience with an almost continuous monologue, addressing little speeches to them between his numbers and commenting on his performance as he went along. He registered comic despair when he found difficulty in adjusting the piano stool to his satisfaction, gestured elaborately between phrases, grimaced, scowled melodramatically and indulged in various other monkey shines...
...Colles (Times): "It was a good sign that the audience, which began by listening breathlessly for Mr. de Pachmann's remarks, soon took to drowning them with applause, as a gentle hint that music and not conversation is the business of the concert room...
Only two critics defended de Pachmann in the public prints. These were Gilbert Gabriel of The Sun and The Globe and Alexander Woollcott of The New York Herald, who happens to be a theatre critic...