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...heart attack; in Sao Paulo. Born the 17th of 19 children, Novaës began playing the piano at age four, and ten years later left her native country to study in Paris on a Brazilian government grant. Upon her American debut in 1915, she was hailed as "the Paderewska of the Pampas," and for the next five decades sustained that accolade through her recordings and international concerts. An intuitive musician and a supreme keyboard colorist, the tiny (5 ft.) virtuoso was renowned for her warm, effortless performances of the 19th century Romantic composers, and once won the praise...
Died. Mme. Antonina Paderewska Wilkonska, 83, only sister of the late, great Pianist Ignace Jan Paderewski...
Died, Helena Paderewska, 74, wife of Pianist-composer Ignace Jan Paderewski; after two years' illness; in the Paderewski villa at Merges. Switzerland. She became the pianist's second wife in 1899 and until her illness was his constant companion on all his tours, sitting backstage at every concert. In Wartime she started looking after Polish ''War brides" and their children, established an asylum for 500 of them at Warsaw...
...steamship line. But Paderewski has been a figure greatly honored this year. He is 70 and early last season he underwent an appendectomy which seriously threatened to end his career (TIME, Oct. 7, 1929). This year he returned to the U. S. (traveling for the first time without Madame Paderewska who is incurably ill in Switzerland), made a nation-wide concert tour, played 80 concerts to jam-packed houses of people who suspected they were hearing him for the last time...
...would never think of listening to other pianists. In Philadelphia he had to have the piano pushed offstage before his audience would leave the hall. Like Conductor Arturo Toscanini (TIME, Nov. 24) Paderewski is this year in the U. S. without his wife for the first time. Mme Paderewska is ill of an incurable disease in Switzerland...