The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1899-12-29
REIGN Of PADERENSE|
Over the Heart Feminine May
be Broken.
HIS SECOND MARRIAGE
Jars Loose a Lot of the Ro-
nance About Him.

New York, Dec. 2s.-The Journal says;
When Ignace Paderewski returned to
America accompanied by a wife chosen
in a foreign land, he administered Sc
we're mental castigation to the self-es-
| TEEN of the American girl.
In no country in the world has any
| other artists been so surfeited with fem
| mine aduIation openly expressed as has
| this tawny haired Pole, who looks as
! though he had stepped from a Christ
mas card or a Burne-Jones frieze.
Paderewski could never be ranked
ranked among the so-called matinee
idols-those broad shouldered, dress
| coaed gentlemen Of the stage who,
whether they be villains or heroes, are
always possessed of a fatal Autograph
like beauty that makes the timid heart
Of the matinee girl fiutter under her
chinchilla cape like an imprisoned bird
The typical matinee girl signs not so
much for the perfect Interpretation Of
art as she does for we'll fitting clothes
Hilliardesque devilishness, Hackettian
haughtiness of Southern dreaminess'
While she idolizes these types to Ger
tain extent, it is the earthiness OF the
idol that appeals to her, although she
herself may be unconscious Of It.
Paderewski's charm for American fem
ininity was a more aesthetic and far
reaching Influence, are magnetism pro-
ducing a form of hysteria which under
lies all the best emotions that women
feel.
The same girls who went mad over
fierce and awful battle on the football
field cheering like she Indians as the
victors strobe from the deadly scene,
wept in Carnegie Hall a few days later
as the Polish pianist made his marvel
Gus music for their delectation.
But no one could say that the impulse
which called forth their tears was the
same as that which made them break
forth in college yells for the triumphant
giants of the gridiron.
Paderewskfs greatest charm for wo->
men has been that his music, more than
any other, awoke the finer spiritual ma
ture in them. His ascetic, dreamy ap-
pearance completed the charm. And they
threw their violets and roses to him
over the piano, for they felt that he en-
bodied a type that women are alweys
searching for-the ideal Tnan-a quest
that is quite as unsuccessful as rule
as Diogenes' famous hunt.
Van Biene did as much with his cello |
as Paderewski with his piano. So long
as the feminine portion OF the audience |
kept its-eyes closed and listened to Van |
Biene's LAST Rose" or other of his best |
renditions their souls foated up to the |
chandeliers.
But when they opened them to ap- |
pIaud they saw a stout well formed man |
with black plastered hair-not a halo, |
but sleek mane-a gratifed smile, an
awkward bow and diamond ring. And |
it was all over then. There were no
boquets for Van Biene.
But Paderewsh knows howtomanage
his tours almost as well as W. F. Brady
manages his prize fighters. He keeps
himself on some sort of non-adipose diet
that suggests rose leaves and dew. He
never smiles. He wears no diamonds.
And the artistic disarrangement of his
magnetic locks Is something that wo-
men marvel at. They know quite we'll
how difficult it is to produce those eff
fects
There are two other men in differen
lines of literary and art work who have
had this same sort of potent magne-
tism for American women, although
not, of course, to the same extent as
Paderewski, whose music has a more
magical charm than either the pencil
or pen.
Charles Dana Gibson. artist, and Rich
ard Harding Davis. writer, have owed
much of their fame and popularity to
the clientele which they gained among
feminine admirers of their work
Gibson, through his pictures Of the
American girl, actually reached the PIN
nacle from which with his deft sketches
he set fashions in hairdressing and in
gowning. When he began 10 draw his
amazingly tall girls with hair parted
there was a rage for bangs upon the
feminine forehead.
Gradually the bang faded TO one curl
and then that was brushed away and
the death knell of the bang was sounded
despite the most strenuous efforts on
the part of the hairdressers to revive a
style which had meant d mint of money
10 them.
This artist did much to augment the
reign of the shirt waist and made the
plain skirt popular. He drew the sort
of girls that most girls would wish 10
look like, and throughout the country
in college rooms and dens Gibson.s pic
lures crowded the walls Of the girl stu
dents while with men they had n, Srcb
vogue
The Gibson girl had nothing respIen-
dent in her beauty or her form. She
was audaciously thoroughbred and well
dressed. That was all In the Students
rooms at the mems universities the pic
lures more often represented girls more
gorgeous in style and nor so well dressed
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