Word: wladziu
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...show time in the Versailles Room at Las Vegas' Riviera. Out to stage center rolled an 8-ft. by 10-ft. cake, which parted to produce, in a blinding flash of red sequins-the headliner. "Well, look me over," said Wladziu Valentino Liberace, 46. "I didn't get dressed to go unnoticed." There was a wave of admiring laughter. His artist's hands reached forward to better display his ruffled shirt cuffs, his diamond studs, his jewelled butterfly bow tie. And lest anyone worry, he assured the house, "Actually, I never wear clothes like this offstage...
Gold Lamé Trademark. When he debuted 25 years ago, Liberace was just the piano man (under the stage name Buster Keys) in a cocktail lounge in Wausau, Wis. His father, a French-horn player once in the Sousa band, thought that Wladziu might be better suited to undertaking.* But Liberace thought of himself as a prodigy, dropped his first two names in imitation of his idol, Paderewski, and within 14 years matched the Polish master in one respect: they are the only pianists in the world who have filled Manhattan's Madison Square Garden...