The age-herald., 1900-02-25
MRS. TRENCHES APPOINTMENT   In Philippine Schools Urged By Prom inent Representatives-The
 Week in Society.
iBY ANNIE KENDRICK WALKER


 1 To describe subtle harmony to some one who has never heard it would be as satis- factory as to write of the brilliant throng that went to hear Paderewski. Had the au- dience been perhaps frenzied one, raptur- ous, one could find many terms that would express 1t all, but an audience secure in its emotions, with its apparently intellectual view of Paderewslo. is a phase of fashiona- ble life that does not admit of expressions that describe the usiral assemblages of the season.
 ! It really made so very little difference to PaderewsSi whether the ,siuidd1ence was emo- ffonal or Ireeoonsive, that am sure that at qpoments the applause annoyed him. He e~would have preferred throbbing silence, when the shiver of things could have been felt. The audience was too well bred to stoop to the unconventional. The applause that greeted the great pianist was, how ever, genuine, and If he gave a thought to the gay assembly before him he must have realized the wonderful effect of his playing. Instead of listening to applause. he listens intently to h4s own playing, and even the most indifferent observer would realize that he is his own severest critic.
 After one has heard PadeIewski the news paper stories seem very absurd that tell of nyseerical matinees that go unto ecStacies over the mere personal magnetism of the man. They glve one an impression that it is really the one great ambition of Paderew- sks's to remain a matinee idol, and rival FabershAm and Maurice Barrymore. It is us if his wonderful hair was his long suit
 To once hear symphony of Schurman or Chop4n nocturne, interpreted by Paderew- ski is to realize the alb5urdlty of much of the gossip that finds it's way into American newspapers. He is not responsible, how ever, for hys'terical women.
 It was not through the emotional that he appealed to the audepce Friday evening. It was rather the intellectual faculties that responded keenly to Paderewsld's touch.
 The personal appearance of Paderewski corresponded so perfectly to the photo graphs with which the puloEc is familiar, that it is very natural to suppose that he understands the art of posing. No colorless photograph could really bring out his re- markable paleness, which is emphasized by the extreme mobility of his features He IS however, a much stronger man than ho looks to be. He is extremely youthful look ing and dt is really difficult to believe what his blog1aphers say-tfrat he was born in 1S60 As is well known, he is a son of an old Polish country family. He was married at 19, his wife dying a year later and leav- ing a little crippel boy to whom Paderew- ski is devotedly attached. It is said that this sorrow was the cause of his passionate devotion to music. A little less than a year ago he was married to Helen Rosen
 The question of the advance prices on tickets for Paderewsh was naturally dis cussed among the musical coterie. In At lanta and Nashville the highest priced seats did not exceed s. and no satisfactory ex- pianatson was made as to the advance for Paderewskis appearance in Birmingham O Brien's was crowded to the full seating capacity regardless of the advance. In view of the fact that Paderewski is quite wealthy it will be interesting to know that on the occasion of his first appearance in America Paderewski played to less than $50 Ills compensation now ranges from $5 900 to $S 900 for two hours playing.
 Paderewskfs first concert, in London in 1891, netted him only only 300 marks. One of his more recent concerts in St. James hall realized 5000.
 1t is frequently related of the great virt- uoso that as boy he listened to the vbra- tons that make up pote and modified his touch until he got the vibrations just as his delicate sense of tonal beauty wanted them. It Is this feeling that dominates his playing 1t is as if the old masters had thrown in a grouping of notes that jared upon his sensitive nature. and he was attun- ing them to the Infinite. Once in a thousand years he waited for the vibrations to cease in a single chord. Centuries later he sent out vibrant waves of melody. It was as Alfred G. Robyn wrote of him. Faderewski had studied and mastered his art completely.
 "IIis success is due to the fact that he has