"The Governor General presents his compliments. He desires, Mr. Paderewski, that at your concert tomorrow you will stand and remain standing on the platform when His Excellency enters, and until he is seated."
Thus, at Melbourne, Australia, last week, Ignace Jan Paderewski, famed pianist, onetime (1919) Premier and still national hero of Poland, was instructed in British etiquet by a natty emissary of his Excellency Baron Stonehaven of Ury, Governor General and Commander-in-Chief of the Commonwealth of Australia. For an instant M. Paderewski's keen eyes snapped, then he bowed: "Say to your Governor,...
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