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...prospect, it looked like just another Manhattan debut, of which there are 300 every year. The New York Times did not even send a critic to Carnegie Hall. The Herald Tribune sent its second-stringer, Jerome D. Bohm. He and a tiny audience of ushers and friends of the artist had the 2,800-seat Carnegie Hall to themselves...
...hours later, Jerome Bohm reported excitedly: "Entirely unheralded, the finest woman pianist since Teresa Carreno* made her North American debut. ... It would scarcely be possible to imagine a more searching, tonally ravishing interpretation...
Patience & Fortitude. Polish Pianist Maryla (pronounced Mariela) Jonas should not have been such a surprise. She made her debut with the Warsaw Philharmonic at nine. Paderewski heard her play, gave her lessons. When Maryla's father objected to a music career for his daughter, Paderewski said quietly: Patience. It is possible that in five, six, seven years she will turn out to be mediocre...
...might test the acoustics. She sat down at the piano at 2:30, played until 8. Said she: "It was a put-up job." She played three years in Latin America, earning enough to pay her way to the U.S., and the $1,400 that a Carnegie debut cost...
Last week, five weeks after her New York debut, she played again in Carnegie Hall. This time the house was packed and the critics were in their pews. A buxom, platinum-haired woman of 35, her face was heavily rouged to cover the pallor of the past six years. Her U.S. sponsors wanted her to wear a corset; she refused ("I have to feel what I play from the legs up"). Says Maryla: "My first concert is European. Come one artist in old dress, no photogenic, no smiling. Then come complications. The criticisms are too good. Come snobs, I play...