Word: paderewskis
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During one of his early tours of the United States, Paderewski played a concert at San Jose, California. Two ambitious students at Leland Stanford University managed the recital. They had guaranteed the pianist $2,000. The affair was not much of a success. Only a small audience appeared. The box office receipts were only $1,600. The two despairing students went to the pianist's secretary, and, in tones of anguish, told him that they could turn over only the $1,600 at the moment, but that they would pay the other $400 if they were given a little...
Ignace Jan Paderewski: " Since last November my earnings have been $460,000-or about $7,800 a concert. I smile at Ruth and Dempsey, who are reputed to average $80,000 and $150,000 a year, respectively. I bow to Fairbanks and Chaplin, whose reported earnings...
...concert lists for the week contain the name of that eminent Doctor of Laws, Jan Ignaz Paderewski. The University of Southern California has just conferred upon the famous Pole an honorary degree of legal science, presumably in celebration of his experiences as the Prime Minister of his native country. But, laws and premiership notwithstanding, Paderewski remains the ideal figure of a musician. During his present American tour he is seen in his most characteristic guise not so much in the formal parts of his program as in impromptu encores. During the applause after his last announced number, the lights...
...Ignaz Paderewski has been playing at Los Angeles and elsewhere on the Pacific Coast...
Since the war Paderewski has tried his hand at the premiership, and has returned to America a sadder and wiser man. After him many governments have ruled and fallen, and President Narutowicz, after a reign of two days, has been assassinated. Yesterday a new president was elected--Wojiechowski, who, as his name suggests, is a friend of the "strong man of Poland", Marshal Pilsudski. He is of the same party as the late president, and will continue his policy; but what appears most hopeful is that he has the respect of both Radicals and Nationalists, and is well assured...