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Paderewski has always regarded himself as a composer, and still spends much of his time composing. Aside from, his famous Minuet, which he wrote while a student in Vienna more than 50 years ago, the musical public has paid little attention to Paderewski's composition. But his Symphony in B Minor and his Polish opera, Manru, have been performed in most of the big musical centres of the world...
...discouragement and struggle. The son of a small-town Polish farm administrator, he felt as a child the knouts of Cossack riding whips, saw his father thrown into prison as a revolutionist against the Tsars. No infant prodigy, he worked until he was nearly 30 before attracting any public notice as a pianist. His early studies at the Warsaw Conservatory met with little encouragement. Only the trombone teacher, with whom he took a few experimental booping lessons, saw a future for him. Said he: "You will earn your livelihood with the trombone, not the piano...
...killing music and musicians. I don't believe it [helps to make people more musical than they are]. It just robs them of any possible personal musical activity and of their musical keenness; it casts a spell of laziness on them." (Nevertheless, Critic Paderewski's first public performance on his coming U. S. tour will be a broadcast over the NBC-Blue network.) About jazz he is more tolerant. Says he: "To be frank, I detest it. But it can be used judiciously." Secretary Sylwin Strakacz, a confirmed swing fan, has long tried to get Paderewski interested...
Died. Dr. Clarence True Wilson, 66, famed Prohibitionist, longtime (1910-36) general secretary of the Methodist Board of Temperance, Prohibition & Public Morals; of uremic poisoning, complicated by a heart attack; in Portland, Ore. As leader of the U. S. Prohibition forces, ruddy-faced, goateed Prohibitor Wilson used to stump every State, speak before societies and clubs, at country fairs, on street corners and on emptied beer barrels. Of late he had devoted himself to his hobbies-simplified spelling, cattle breeding, a theory that John Wilkes Booth escaped his pursuers...
Diplomas with pictures of heroes are popular in public schools. One of the certificates most popular in elementary schools from coast to coast has a picture of Charles Lindbergh and his Spirit of St. Louis. Youngsters who complete their grade-school education in Oklahoma are rewarded with diplomas picturing hat-waving Will Rogers. Most famous Will Rogers line: "All I know is what I read in the papers...