The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-11-20

Who Is Making His First Tour of the
 Concert Stage After Five Years
 Retirement and Who Will Be
 Heard In Recital at Polls Palace
 Palace Theatre Next Sunday After.
 noon.
 Ignace Jan Paderewski. in retire. ment for five years, has returned IC the concert stage. This is by far the most important episide in the musical history of the current year and what makes it of especial interest to Bridgeport is that the premier pianist and Hperator of Poland is coming 70 PoIl's New Palace theatre next Sun day afternoon, Nov. Z6. under the auspices of Rudolph Steinert, for one or, the first recitals of his tour, the nrst since he abandoned the piano in 13l7 to devote all his energies to his native Poland.
 One of the most persistent questions which is asked in reference to Pader- ewskfs triumphant return 10 the con- CerI platform is: How has the lreatest of international pianists been tlol. to stay away so long from the public who always honored and ac- eIdilned him 7"
 The answer only comes when we realIze how the love of country and the tremendous call which Paderew- shI answered in hls services to Po- land, which eventually resulted in hls beng premier through the dramatic years of the worlds history.
 Country Above Art.
 The following outline gives an idea of the importance of the work of this great virIuoso in the years he Sacr1- need his musical art for the patriotic principle of country
 Paderewskis retirement from the concert stage in the summer of 191 Was as abrupt as It was unexpected. ollowing the close of his season in the spring he had gone to his Cali 1ornia home foE long rest and his mapager began to book him for an following But the world was moving at very rapid pace in hose days Pader ewskl had come to America in the spring of 1915 to arouse Tn America sympathy for Poland and the Poles. for Poland at that tune was the bat tlefield Of the German and Russian armIeS. In the two succeeding years he had done almost Supernuman work. He lad had two great concert tours, in 1yI5-l916 and in 1S16-1917; and at the same time, organized the Poles in Amerlca into a great bouy loyal to the Allies; he had made in numerable speeches to his country men; he had pleaded most eloquent ly the cause of his country to his Amreican friends; he had been in SJrumental-in raising large sums Of money foI.r Polish relief anu he had keen laying the foundation of the present Republic of Poland by work in.r for its recognition lnde- pendent nation.
 The entry of the United States into
 
 climax. Paderewski saw ill the near future the realization of his dream of a Polish army fighting under the White Eagle of Poland, commanded bV Polish officers. He began to work on this plan in the summer of 1917. There were many obstacles to pe overcome, but before the end of tho summer q training camp Tor PoilSh officers had been established ana Polish soldiers were being trained III CInada by British officers. This was the beginning of the famous Haller's army.
 His War Record.
 In September, just before his con- cert tour was to have begun he cam celled it entirely and from that time on until after the armIstice was sign ed he spent practically all his days in Washington or New ork and ah hIs nights on sleepers GeiRg between these places. What he achieved in these months became a matter of his- rol.y It had been his famous memo randum written between concerts In January. 1917. which had persuaded President Wilson to call for free and independent Poland' in his ra- nous message which contained the fourteen points. PaderewslIi was the heart and the brain of the great Polish movement which sent an army of Poles to France in the fall Of l9lS An time to do some notable fighting Tn the last months of the war and which sent into the American army voI-
 
 Of any class of our foreign popuia-l ton.
 Directly the armistice was signed ne started for Europe with the loee. of staying in Paris only a few weeks and then returning to this country. with the feeling that he had finished his work. But he had no sooner ar rived in London than the British gov vrnment requested him to go to War saw to see if he could not organize there some sort of stable government so that Poland might properly be rep resented at the Peace conference. hs was sent to Danzig on the British cruiser Concord with an escort of de- stroyers.
 His progress from Danzig to War saw verltable triumph. Arriving in Posen in the evening of Christmas Day he was there all during the fighting which finally freed Pos mania of the Germans. In fact bull lets came in through the windows He arrived in aWrsaw On New Years Eve and was greeted by the entire city which has been waiting hours the first real government Poland had had in over a hundred years, be coming Prime Minister and taking the portfolio of Foreign Affairs.
 Cabinet Crisis
 His first act was to call a general election In the next six months he spent most of his time in Paris fighting for the interests of his coun- try at the Conference. What he se- cured for Poland was much more than any one familiar with the situa- tion expected. He was again in Paris for the negotiation of the Treaty of s. Germain and he finally returned to Warsaw in October to fight for his political life. The Cabinet Cris- is'' endured from October to early December when finally he retired from the office of President of the Council and into private life. as he thh9nSht .as He sssss wss fsss rn9sr9eIShiy e Z sx; nnAhla te Isaya WaEsaY 6hspss the