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Otago Witness, Issue 3823, 21 June 1927, Page 53

Madame Paderewski, who was the Baroness de Rosen before her marriage to the great pianist, arrived at Wellington the other day. She is a woman of charming personality (states the Nelson Evening Mail). Madame and her distinguished husband politely bade au revoir to a Post interviewer and took their last farewells of their fellow passengers. An hour later Paderewski was comfortably settled down at his hotel, busily preparing for his opening concert. Eight or 10 hours at his piano, he said, would compensate in pa£t for the practice he had lost en voyage. It is not generally known that Paderewski —the correct pronunciation of the name, by the way, is Paderevski, with the slightest sound of the v—was knighted by King George in 1925 in recognition of his work on behalf of Lord Haig’s fund for disabled soldiers. Although he is a Knight Grand Cross of the British Empire, however, he does not use his title; his personality and his artistry are far above it. As pianist, composer, statesman, in his phenomenal intellect, and again through his commanding and magnetic personality, Paderewski is indeed a. remarkable maa.