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Show COMPOSER'S SONGS TERMED TOO PLAIN " At 84, tall, white-haird Carrie Jacobs Bond was planning to write and .produce a movie; she also hoped to tour the world in a trailer. trail-er. She was not dismayed by the difficulties involved. During her liftime she had facd and beaten bigger problems, says Pathfinder News Magazine. She was 32 when her second husband died, leaving her and her young son penniless. She moved to Chicago, determined to develop her "amusing" musical talent to the point where it would support her. For the next six yars, she lived on one meal a day in a tiny, $15-a-month apartment. Publishers Publish-ers said her songs among them "I Love You Truly" and "Just A-Wearyin' A-Wearyin' For You," were "too plain" to sell. So she published her own sheet music, toilsomely decorating the covers with hand-drawn hand-drawn flowers. To put her songs across, she sang them in vaudeville vaude-ville and at first was hissd. Her success finally came, not gloriously but grudgingly. A few publishers accepted her songs;,, the first big check came in 1910 $8,500 royalties for "The End of a Perfect Day," which eventually sold 5 million copies. |