Word: paderewskis
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...with National Broadcasting Co. But these artists have only become affiliated with N. B. C.'s Artists Service, an agency like any other which books flesh & blood concerts. Kreisler and Rachmaninoff are two of the three great artists who have steadfastly refused to broadcast. The third: Pianist Ignace Jan Paderewski...
Died. Lionel Powell, famed impresario who introduced Paderewski, Caruso. Chaliapin, Tetrazzini, Kreisler, Jeritza et al. to London, visited the U. S. 40 times during the course of his career; after an operation...
...Thomas Woodrow Wilson, having successfully unveiled a bronze statue of her husband in Poland fortnight ago (TIME, July 13), was in Switzerland last week, just looking around. She stopped at Merges to see silver-maned Ignace Jan Paderewski, donor of Poland's statue, and she went to Geneva to see her husband's greatest memorial, the League of Nations, at work...
...distinguished-citizen-to-whose-inspiration-the-gathering-was-due was the silver-maned Politico-Pianist Ignace Jan Paderewski, first Premier of Republican Poland (1919). He it was who ordered the Wilson statue from the U. S. mountain-molder, Gutzon Borglum, and paid for it. Many years ago he was engaged to give a concert at Stanford University. Subscriptions failed to raise the necessary amount. The treasurer of the concert, an undergraduate working his way through college, presented his own note for the deficit. Paderewski returned the note to the concert treasurer, Herbert Clark Hoover...
Poznan, where the statue was erected, is a city that had nothing in particular to do with Thomas Woodrow Wilson, a great deal to do with Ignace Paderewski. It was there that he landed from a British warship in 1919 while Germans still held the town, to become Poland's first Premier. Poznan has always been a Paderewski, anti-Pilsudski bailiwick. The Wilson unveiling resolved itself into a grand Paderewski jamboree. Dictator Pilsudski and Pianist Paderewski (officially tending his sick wife in Switzerland) both considered it wise to absent themselves. So did General Pershing who had been invited...