Word: paderewska
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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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...