Word: paderewskis
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Twenty years ago the title of "world's most famous musician" belonged to a shockheaded Pole named Ignace Jan Paderewski. Flame-haired Virtuoso Paderewski was the greatest pianist of his time and one of its most lionized personalities. Women swooned at his concerts, pursued him to beg a lock of his long red-gold hair. Kings and cabbageheads applauded him. Even among people who never went near a concert hall "Paderoosky" was a name to conjure with...
When the World War broke out Pianist Paderewski's career took an abrupt turn. A fervent patriot, he foresaw a chance for the independence of his native Poland, dedicated his every effort to this cause. His acquaintance with nearly all the powerful and famous figures of the world made him Poland's best ambassador. At War's end Poland was free, and Paderewski virtually retired from the concert platform to become its first Premier...
From Lausanne, Switzerland, 77-year-old Pianist Ignace Jan Paderewski made his first broadcast...
Ignace Jan Paderewski (Sun. 2 p.m., NBC-Blue). Famed Polish pianist-patriot plays for the first time over U. S. radio, by short wave from Lausanne, Switzerland, for the Magic...
...Valley of the Giants", which is overshadowed by the entertaining second feature, "Time Out for Murder", starring Gloria Stuart and Michael Whalen. The Fine Arts is continuing for the eighteenth week "Moonlight Sonata", which has the disadvantage of being an English film but the more than compensating advantage of Paderewski. Across from the Yard in Harvard Square the University in featuring "The Texans", a mediocre Paramount picture with Joan Bennett and Randolph Scott, and Stuart Erwin in "Passport Husband." Sunday will bring Harold Lloyd's decrepit but still amusing "Professor Beware...