Show ON RUBINSTEINS DEBET Ito I As a young man Anton Rubinstein ha to struggle severely for his existence he ate his bread in tears nor did he ajnays have bread to eat Rubinstein whdBiter I in life was n millionaire did not Tiavo enough to satisfy his appetite in he beginning be-ginning of his career And his gratitude t those who ha faith i his genius and Flood by him with their counsel and a csrtance knew no bounds ever afterward In his salon tn Petershof her he resided re-sided during the last years ot his life In a castlelike palace n a landed lord a album al-bum wa displayed the first leaf of which showed the photo picture o a old Polish Jew It was a rcmlnlscfence of one of the most noteworthy events in the artists life He h still a la advertised his first concert given in a city of Poland But nobody came to buy tickets Suddenly an old Polish Jew stepped Into the office put a ruble upon the counter and said I Give me half a dozen seats This my frt playing hearer thus explained ex-plained Rubinstein filled me with such unbounded delight that when a few years later I passed again through that town I had a photograph ten of the old man to preserve his picture The Mlnorah 1 |