Word: paderewski
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...down, but it usually takes a war or a revolution to give license to such effective criticism. Last week German invaders in Posen, Poland destroyed a twelve-foot statue of Woodrow Wilson, carved by Gutzon Borglum and presented to the city in 1931 by silver-maned Ignace Jan Paderewski. The critics left this sign on its site: "The American sculptor made the legs too short, the body too long and the head too large. Such an artistic eyesore cannot continue to stand in the city...
Practically, also, a change of Polish leadership was due, with even British Elder Statesman David Lloyd George fuming at the former Government's flight and previous oppressions. Ignace Paderewski was offered the job of President, but the old pianist, in exile since 1920 from the State he helped found, turned the job down...
Poland, the land of Copernicus, Chopin, Mme Curie, Paderewski, is one place where estheticism and the laboratory spirit are not considered synonymous with general debility. And so it has been perfectly natural for Edward Smigly-Rydz to keep up his painting. One of the works of which the clean-shaven, egg-bald General is proudest is a self-portrait, with a beard and a shock of hair...
After Ignace Jan Paderewski, 78, collapsed minutes before his Manhattan concert* last week, Eldon G. Joubert, his piano-tuner and companion for 30 years, was asked if the Maestro would ever give another. Said Joubert sadly: "I wonder. He's worn...
...group of social theorists under Lenin struggled with rival theoricians, Tsarist generals, Allied intervention, for control of the former Russian Empire, but everywhere social experimentation-good or bad, radical or reactionary-was in the air. It was administered by politicians of a new type-professors like Masaryk, artists like Paderewski, literary figures like Kurt Eisner or D'Annunzio, trade unionists like Ebert, visionaries like Karolyi, soldiers like Pilsudski-and as they consolidated their power or went under, they fitted into a Europe in which the demand for peace dominated everything else...