Word: paderewskis
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...Paderewski. The high-backed, red-seated chair without which Pianist Ignace Jan Paderewski refuses to play was folded up in Chicago last week, set up again in Milwaukee, then packed for Ann Arbor. This year the 72-year-old pianist is giving concerts as fast as he can travel. Unlike other years, he will not stop to rest at his ranch in Paso Robles, Calif. His private car is hitched to one fast train after another. When it stands sidetracked, trainmen still gather around it to hear the old man tirelessly practice his trills and runs, sound out his smashing...
There are two musicians for whom New Yorkers rise respectfully to their feet. They stand up when aged Ignace Jan Paderewski comes on stage to play for them. They stand for Conductor Arturo Toscanini when he starts the Philharmonic season in the autumn and when he returns after his long winter furlough. Last fortnight Toscanini returned to Manhattan after sunning himself for eight weeks...
...Paderewski is the only man," declared Krakow's Glos Narodu, "who has the sympathy of the entire nation...
...Pianist Paderewski, 72. and dictator Pilsudski, 65, but are they old enough to tolerate each other? That was Poland's crucial question last week. It was the Army which favored M. Paderewski to quit Poland's Premiership in 1919 after a tenure of only ten months, and Marshal Pilsudski is the Army's idol...
Because a 72-year-old pianist must soon retire, because it is pleasant to retire as the President of one's country, and because both Paderewski and Pilsudski are towering patriots, the pianist's candidacy looms. When U. S. newshawks pounced on M. Paderewski at Providence, R. I. last week he pursed his pale lips. "There is much discussion of the Presidency in Poland just now," said the Great Pole's secretary, "but Mr. Paderewski is not in direct touch with it. He has not been formally offered a nomination and naturally cannot discuss the subject...