Saturday, February 25, 2012

Rabindranath in America-2nd times -Californiaa (contd-7)


On 30th Sept, Rabindranath came to San Francisco of California state  and got in the Palace hotel. He was eager to come over here. A draft paper said; 
"Tagore's first enquiry was how to reach the Lick Observatory. about which he had both heard and read very much. To him it is perhaps the greatest things in California./" Your Lick Institution,by tts discoveries , he declared , "has broadened the world' side as of our Universe, thus adding to the dignity and meaning of life ./ "The late Prof. Josia Royce, also a Californian, has done the same theory along a different intellectual tangent. "From his very childhood Rabindranath was curious about astronomy.
Rabindranath came to Cort Theatre in Califonia in the noon on 1st oct. He wanted to listen the concert of the famous piano player Ignace Jan Paderewiski [1880-1941]. The wellknown music-journalist Redfern Mason wrote;
" Padeewski gave his second recital at the Cort Theatre. It was onee of his great days and he played so nobly that those who were present will talk of it in the years to come. One of the auditors was Sir Rabindranath Tagore... what did he think of it ?"