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Show pianist, who caused such commotion com-motion in England and this country twenty-five years ago, and who on one occasion at the Royal Albert Hall in London had to play the piano behind bars on account of his magnetic or hy-noptic hy-noptic powers over the ladies who attended his wonderful musical ability. Poderewski while the war was on gave his entire fortune to his country, and after six months in thi? country on a concert tour has made another fortune it is said equal to that which he gave away to his mother country when in distress. The question con now be broached can a man at sixty come back? It does seem remarkable that a man of his age can "Come-back," single handed, alone and broke and depending de-pending entirely on his art and get the appreciation he received from an admiring public. May j Paderewski live for many years to come and enjoy the fruits of this tour. . Editorial PADEREWSKI COMES BACK Not so many years ago a celebrated cel-ebrated physician who evidently found this country too small for him and crossed the Atlantic for larger worlds to conquer, startled start-led civilization with the remark that men past 40 had no chance to come back and might as well die. At the time this remark occasioned a great deal of comment, com-ment, and since that time the press of the world has taken pleasure is bawling out every man over 40. This week papers in this country have been filled with comments on the achievements achieve-ments of Paderewski, the Polish |