Music: In Hagerstown

Citizens of Hagerstown, Md., (population 30,000) will group themselves around a poster tacked to a butternut tree. The poster will announce that Paderewski, World's Greatest Pianist, will play in Hagerstown.

Although local boosters quite naturally take this news to mean that Hagerstown is at last coming to long-merited recognition as a centre of culture and the arts, there is still another reason behind the great pianist's visit. Hagerstown is near Washington, D.C.; and people who want to hear Paderewski can easily get over by bus or motor. In fact, if they expect...

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