Show 8 ki 0 coge a 0 0 k 4 4 A g P 0 U q ra V 3 7 0 0 polish bward worn and 32 H haa zo 1 alz Q I 1 1 leaor 7 oh my friend my heart Is tull full of 0 happiness what a man you arel are you are more than a musician you are a poet and there Is poetry in your lingers fingers clemenceau JAN SKI and his wife sailed from new york for or ru eu rope the other day no he was not going back in to politics he was going in to take a rest may he loaf and enjoy ills soul to his hearts content he deserves it for has staged during the past winter a most remarkable comeback his amerlean american tour has been th the most wonderful ond erful triumph ever won by a musician ile he has surpassed even his triumphs of the nineties and Is sixty two I 1 when the tour was in preparation insurance was sought not an insurance coin company pany in allabe all the world would listen to him even lloyds which will take a chance on almost anything refused him it Is to laugh at sixty two gave 73 recitals ile he traveled miles in a private car he Ms likes to be entertained but there were social invitations pressed upon him which he could not ignore his principal trouble was as to find halls balls big enough to hold bold his audiences his biggest audience was one of in san francisco receipts in three recitals in nw new york the receipts were 47 for two in chicago tor for two in los angeles tor for three in boston and for one if in cleveland the khe gross receipts of the tour which no company would insure were St 1 when clemenceau was in new york at the gibson home appeared and begged to see the great frenchman it was late and the tiger was in bed just the same game the tiger was delighted of course at once why I 1 would see this great man in bed they met in the center of clemen cenus chamber embraced land and put lip to cheek after the continental custom after their chat the frenchman said before I 1 go home I 1 want to hear bear you play when shall I 1 have that pleasure master said the pianist 1 I will play for or you now flow clemenceau was delighted leading the pole by the hand band he almost danced downstairs to the music room shouting like a boy and summoning the household to come and hear bear come and hear seated himself looked st at the tiger a moment as it if tor for inspiration spIr atlon then leaned back closed his eyes and played four times and through it t all clemenceau sat erect in his chair his features a kaleidoscope of the passion and pathos of the alie music As aa finished clemenceau caressed him again oh my friend my heart Is full of happiness what a man you arel you tou are more than a musician you are a poet and there Is poetry in your fingers well that Is the way figuratively speaking that and the american public met nevertheless for a long time there was every indication that the polish pianist was lost to the world of music he quit in 1915 to devote himself bady soul and fortune to his native land lie ile came to america as plenipotentiary from the national polish committee and labored like a giant he raised a large sum through many benefit concerts ue ile delivered many addresses to recruit poles la in the united states ile he spent his private fortune in organizing the struggle for polish freedom in january of 1819 1919 working with general the military dictator of poland became prime minister of the reconstituted polish state he was slightly wounded at warsaw by a would be assassin As premier did as well as anyone could in those distracted days he kept things going he represented his country ably at the peace conference returned to this country war worn and with his fortune gone and lie he said at that time 1 I shall never play la in public again that Is a closed chapter I 1 shall compose music from time to time but I 1 shall never play again and thereupon he went into retirement in california but old mother nature Is a jolly good nurse the very best there Is she offers rest and quiet and peace to the weary she has cures of her own for the sick at heart and the pole was a patient worth ixer her best efforts he Is a big man physically any man who can play at a public performance for three hours with only a brief intermission Is a strong man and he be Is a strong man mentally anyway old mother nature had bad her way with this strong man those who ho know him well say that in the depths of his own being lie he found strength and philosophy to regain his poise that his present physical and artistic well being Is but the reflection of the man within that Is master of himself as well as of his instrument yet Is temperamental like most artists he Is a man of intense emotions at the time the late president of poland was assassinated assassin red the news was kept from him until after lie had finished ills his recital when he was told lie collapsed in a chair rage grief and anxiety over overcoming coni 9 him in the thinking reader will not have to behold that there are other features la iii tte me situation which make the como come b bick ick of Puder kuderewski ewski remarkable it fat was more than a generation ago that made his first appearance in new york and times have changed since then in the musical world no less than in the world ot of affairs was born in russian poland la in 1880 1860 lie he was wag a youthful prodigy and played the piano in public at twelve in 1887 he appeared with marked success in vienna tours in germany france and england followed in 1891 he made tho the first of several successful visits to tho the united states the young polish pianist created a furore indeed the sensation which followed was epochal in the annals annala of music he was a fascinating figure indeed trill tall and slender with sir galahad face and hair that suggested to the cartoonists a huge chrysanthemum of gleaming gold it A rany ay have been his bis personal magnetism Us Ms poetic beauty graceful posed poses and extraordinary coloring anyway ills hla audlea cies were hla his before he struck a i note cote and when his fingers of steel with tips of velvet drew from the instrument melody and poetry harmony and majesty he threw his hearers out of normal balance his audren audiences aud fences ces rose from their seats in wild disorder to storm the platform something had gone across the footlights that could not be ba resisted so it was all over the country crowds gathered wherever he appeared eager to carry hini him in triumph in those days though there were many pianists of note not there was waa one best pianist and everyone knew his name but now how things are aie chan changed gedl 1 now those who are best qualified to judge are reluctant to attribute primacy to any artist however great they see in each great artist his individual excellencies that make him great they see no basis of comparison between for instance a and a hofmann or between a hofmann Hof mano and a all ali they say are great but none la Is the greatest moreover triumph was a generation ago the flapper who noy nony goes to recitals knows not the handsome young pole of the Ni tittles no doubt her mother Is loyal to the memories of those fascinating days but the musical youth of today have a score of to follow and adore and yet in spite of all this came back and abd in more ways than one hla his triumphant reception by his bla friends on his first appearance was a musical affair yet the musical interest was of minor importance the critics tried and not very successfully to say that had bad not entirely recovered his early form but that he played better than ever it was evident that they appreciated the presence of a force that lay beyond find and perhaps above art it we was a there rader faderewski ewski Is beyond question one of the foremost artists of the times ile he Is a who spent his fortune and abandoned hla his art in organizing the struggle for polish freedom he Is an orator of distinction he Is a statesman who has been premier of a big nation and he be Is a man strong enough to bome come back at sixty two the thousands thousands of aserleans Amer leans who crowded recitals fro from n coast to wast coast and gave back to 16 him in a few short months the fortune spent P ent for hip his native land an ll 11 undoubtedly saw w in him litria more than the musician the new artistic laurels they thrust upon the artist were e in no small part their recognition of him as a man |