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...result has been to admit Ignace Paderewski and John Organgrinder on the same basis. Neither Ignace Paderewski nor an organ- grinder (with monkey) annoys the American Federation of Musicians. But the fact that the law makes no distinction between them is distressing, because it harms business. Representatives of the musicians' union point out that "saxophone strugglers, trombone contortionists, bass drummers and French horn oompahs" have been admitted into the U. S. as "artists," thereby flooding the market for musicians and reducing the wage minimum, much as was the case when steel laborers were imported from Europe in former years...
Thus, at Melbourne, Australia, last week, Ignace Jan Paderewski, famed pianist, onetime (1919) Premier and still national hero of Poland, was instructed in British etiquet by a natty emissary of his Excellency Baron Stonehaven of Ury, Governor General and Commander-in-Chief of the Commonwealth of Australia. For an instant M. Paderewski's keen eyes snapped, then he bowed: "Say to your Governor, Monsieur, that Paderewski will accord him the honor which he deserves...
Soon to the concert of M. Paderewski came the Governor General, but found no Pole upon the platform. Nettled, His Excellency marched to his seat, stood frigidly awaiting some apology or amend from Pianist Paderewski who, just then, walked upon the stage...
...instant the air was electric. Then Ignace Jan Paderewski sat down at his piano and strummed the golden notes which all the world can but listen to and applaud. Baron Stonehaven, vexed, sat down. Next day His Excellency released to the press a letter to M. Paderewski in which the great Pole was formally rebuked for "insulting His Majesty the King as represented in the person of His Excellency the Governor General...
...newsgatherers M. Paderewski replied with suave but cutting irony: "His Majesty, the King, was the last person whom I would think of insulting...