Word: paderewski
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...with the idea that he may be the 20th Century reincarnation of Poland's Frédéric François Chopin. Agile and talkative Moissaye Boguslawski's interest in maintaining circulation in his fingers has sound precedent among other pianists. Josef Hofmann and Paderewski dip theirs in hot water. Percy Grainger slaps his on his kneecaps. Only pianists' stimulant of which Pianist Boguslawski disapproves is whiskey. He drinks hot tea, likes to accompany it with thick sandwiches of corned beef...
...studies by designing book jackets, wall paper, linoleum. In Paris she became a pupil, later a good friend of aging Auguste Rodin, won her first real fame with a bronze of Anna Pavlova as a dancing bacchante. Her best known works since then have been three heads of Ignace Paderewski (The Statesman, The Artist, The Friend), the colossal stone figures over the entrance to London's Bush House and the recumbent crusader that is Harvard's War Memorial...
...were furtively sipping sherry in the parlor. She walked down Tremont Street with a lion on a leash. Once when she missed a rendezvous with a coaching party she chartered a locomotive which she drove herself at 80 m.p.h. to overtake it. She was supposed to have paid Pianist Paderewski $3,000 to play for her and one guest at tea. When Mascagni conducted at the opening of an opera season, Mrs. Gardner did not let a broken leg keep her away. She sat in her box with the leg in a cast, her back to the stage...
Landau's List. Out this week is another notable book dealing not with one cult but with many, God Is My Adventure by Rom Landau.† A 37-year-old Pole who wrote biographies of his eminent compatriots Ignaz Paderewski and Joseph Pilsudski, Author Landau has set out on a pioneering journey through that religious shadowland which lies between piety and eccentricity, "regions of truth that the official religions and sciences are shy of exploring." Of the nine cultists he has appraised, Author Landau credits Frank Buchman with being "the most successful and shrewdest revivalist of our time." However...
...Hofmann was touring again, this time as a full-fledged artist with a technique that surpassed Paderewski's. At 60, his powers are undiminished. his energy strong. He played in Europe all last autumn, plans to give 30 U. S. recitals this winter, make a South American tour next spring. Other years he has spent more time in Philadelphia, where he is the director of Mary Louise Bok's Curtis Institute of Music. There he takes a few private pupils who speak of each lesson as an inspiring experience. One lately complained: "He shows you what...