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Show ' THE LEHI SUN, LEHI, UTAH 1 11. II knoi C,. O 00: ilte,L "uman 'rproof. s a tot: d mors . They OtODOUi : tbe en- I an Must.ii m u.u sa 7 Cure HOMER. W.N.U. SERVICE Amoi Croy Llf IL" . In Ml. P.'aed.":boT Homer THUS FAR: B. finish Mf ichool a woman - m""- ',0, 1 ML veI "B00D! B" '.Knth his father and . muv to visit En- 'totoct France ta general, ".."f; took luddenly Ul C. o-Vr, tie mean. ".. returned to America belts E"P- "JEB XXII IiuppwTi could go to i , pilar Hollywood sal- Li' would have to have my to take that up with tie very least I could af-tht af-tht job tor," I said, once L businessman. xouuuw, orking preny understandingly at tne I the workingman. tall Chicago and let you ;evjtor and I floated down Isn't long beiore i was uvu.6 o to the Stevens notei wun Ues paid. Oh boy! , nut on a tour of three fad found that a "dealer" Kg station man. une aay. the feel of it," i went out il truck and helped deliver and fuel oil to farmers in i, and finally I wrote the liilm." It was turned in lod under the title Stan, and Lin the Midwestern states $ by that company the iitious training film that r been made. tame the great the wonder-sent wonder-sent I put all the training :ney carefully aside, some lie staff I had already writ- so when I was through Je aim I hurried home to Mis ts fast as I could go and t to see the representative eastern insurance company. him how things were. They ! plain bad, he said as only Lranee company representa-L representa-L say it And there was the on the Croy farm. His had been riding him. He jetty disturbed. L" I said, "I suppose I had ;!! that off." died pleasantly; one of my i 8gure up how much it is," sad hauled out a check, mean all of it?" he gasped. M as well do it now as any I said as if paying off a in was a morning's trifle. ! had a glimpse into a field A book writing seem as de-! de-! e as a corner post. After I i "Family Honeymoon," I consider my best comedy, looking at it with paternal oaybe it would make a play. a there I condensed the plot N lines: rofessor in the Middle West love with a young and at-' at-' widow who has four chil-2e chil-2e proposes and is accepted, aappy bride and groom are ready to leave they are at the last moment, to take iren along on the honey- llany strange things happen, e end all is well and happi- pin reigns." ' this with a note to Owen and in no time at all he had telephone. He was in Eik nf a - u: u P had two commitments on but he liked the honey- pa, and would I send him Script? il to 35 East 76th Street so ' he must have thought the w was already downstairs. ght hours later Owen Tla. Ptaned that he had read it Pe mght and that he was r arP everything and start 'tiwr and his bride off on Peymoon. I was delisted ater-wise Owen Davis! After over the pounding of my "rd him ask: P can you come to the Hotel ha nave lunch with me?" 1 could come today. 1 diSCOVerpH b j-otTnlor y - . - r aunting Room. Some P you never fnrtrot nH rn Set that one. Not what we fwhat wr tnll.. j a s !: , vojacu aooui, ana of buoyancy and tremen- -sui i cad to be alive and a one world. UU1U UD the h I Wughed so deliehtedlv that .ed and stared r that. "Eht ".-itK r. j money for the privilege. we went tQ toe office ar0 J. Ml .u. f a en Divi. ma h,m ih. give me. I was so "" Owen could have said 0Ulrt 1cf ; - wuuia nave oeen a Play on Broadway! "Cg torr, A fll ,q 'WiiuYT Oil LI A 4 tracts ready," Madden toey were, stacked as high at his desk lamp. We signed them, me very meticulously, but to Owen they were Just another contract, for he had had two hundred and eighty plays produced. Richard J. Madden eave item to the New York Times: Never before in theatrical history had a novel been accepted for dramatiza-tion dramatiza-tion before it had been Well, that was my speed. Owen started work at once and each morning would call me im and tell me how a scene had worked out Owen has a way of holding a receiver across the room from him ana whispering into it, but that was all right with me. It was about mv own brain creation which would soon De pulling them in fr.om the sidewalk. side-walk. Those people in the Hunting Room who had stared! He finished the play In exactly twenty-one days, had it timed bv the only woman in New York who can read his handwriting, and took a copy to Richard J. Madden. The next day Richard J. Madden called up and was so excited he asked us to lunch. "I'll sell it in two weeks," he said. He was pretty weak on his guessing, guess-ing, for it took two days more than the time he'd promised. Owen called up and said, "Vinton Freedley wants it" It was actually hanneninff tn SEW1XG CIRCLE PATTERNS f rock With Figure-Molding lines V .Gaily Be-KuMed Dress for Tots 51; I studied dered. and weighed and pon- me! Why hadn't I got into this theater the-ater business before? Two days later, lat-er, Owen Davis was again whispering whisper-ing on the telephone. "Max Gordon wants it too." It was sure goin' to be hard to go back to pecking where no one ever called up with exciting news. While I was still floating on these Broadway clouds, Owen called again. "Alfred de Liagre wants it too." I could hardly believe my ears and asked Owen again just to make sure. "That's right," he whispered. "And he's one of the best producers in town." "Have we really got three managers man-agers who want to produce it?" I gasped. "That's all so far," breathed Owen. Never in his life, he said, had he had so many managers, in such a short time, fighting to produce a play. "Well, that's the way things go," I said modestly. I continued to live in a fairy world that I had never known before existed ex-isted And now. under the excitement excite-ment of it I just about gave up my pecking. Me for the theater. Vinton Freedley had been the first to accept it so the play went to him. Owen called with more good oewij-the oewij-the play would be tried out in the summer stock company theater to Skowhegan. Maine. The very the-ater the-ater that had tried out "Life With Father." This dazzling fairy world continued contin-ued to swirl around me. Owen Da-vis Da-vis Jr. called up and asked me if I would come down and see if I hked toe four children he had talked to r the oart I Boated down to the RKO Bu dTng where Vinton Freed-Sv Freed-Sv had his office. I hadn't the slight-IsUdea slight-IsUdea in the world whether the, fi tefthe parts, or not. But no one Sspected this by the way 1 studied and weighed and pondered, for I Sght be6 settling the very fate and fortune of those children. A day or two later I was called mn,M I come down and see Lhatl thought of the colored woman what I tnoug maid,s rTfweStwnnd settled her fate and fortune, too. The wonderful, the glorious, the I found. rfL with Herbert Maine, snas ---- tte E. Swett who nan -- -erica: Cdest stock company injunen with weiviue and witn w""" - . t w face rector; and soon 1J" " to Project rny honeymoon idea across the footlights. And there were the lour children, Just as I had said they should be; and the colored maid, Just a I had propounded. Up from New York had come bigwigs big-wigs to see the nlav Rut t w them see me first strolling here and tn"e on the lawn, so they could see with their own eyes what the author of the first unpublished-but-produced to-play.form novel looked like. They didn't seem much impressed. In fact, they took it with Immense calm. When the great evening came, myj wife and I arranged to sit in different dif-ferent parts of the theater to that we would not Influence each other, but Owen Davis and his wife were old hands at this and plunked down side by side. The curtain went up and there were the actors speaking my lines (out of Owen Davis) and projecting pro-jecting my thoughts (sired by Croy). Soon the audience was responding to the professor bewildered by his new family, and my heart started to beat again. That first laugh! At last the performance was over. Owen Davis, who has a peculiarly aiooi point of view on his own plays, once they are on view, said: "I think that second act curtain, when the four children come and climb into Mamma's bed, is the biggest big-gest laugh curtain I ever saw." I said I thought well of it too. Herbert E. Swett, who has seen so many shows that he can't bear to sit at one more than ten minutes, said: "That's about the funniest show I ever put on in this theater." "I liked it from the first" I said modestly. There had been problems; the chil dren were hard to direct and had been noisy, but the play idea was there, and the audience liked it Vin ton Freedley shook us by the hand and talked about when he would open." The next day he climbed into the plane and, full of enthusiasm, enthusi-asm, went back to New York. The children learned their places and the play got better; and it be gan to "build," as we theatrical people peo-ple call it Herbert E. Swett said: I'd like to have a slice of that play. I turned down the opportunity on "Life with Father and I don t want to do it again." "I'll see what I can do for you," said. The play continued to draw. In fact it broke a two years' top and still, as I set these words on paper. has the record since Ethel Barry- more. 1 was growing more and more proud of myself . . ' . why hadn't I got into theatrical business long, long ago? The Maine papers reviewed it, and the Boston papers reviewed it. Very fine, indeed; I couldn't have done better myself. Then came the last night Vinton Freedley was to be there to see the changes, and to sign the Broadway production contract But there was a storm and he had to leave his plane in Boston, and didn't get to our last night Then, the next day, he went back to New York. But Still everything was all right Then came something I never dreamed of and I had my first glimpse of what chance does in the theater. Variety gave it a bad review. re-view. The local man had come from Portland and had seen it that first night He hadn't liked it and had said so. Never before had I realized the tremendous influence that Variety Vari-ety wields in its field, and now I saw there was indeed reasonjor It to be called The Bible of Broadway. Vinton Vin-ton Freedley lost enthusiasm for the play and decided, finally, to spend his time on musicals, wnen ine agent took the play to other managers manag-ers they said. "If it's so good, why didn't Freedley bring it to town?" A hard question to answer. And Hollywood said, "It failed, didn't it?" The book came out in due time, and got good reviews, but the play had a black eye and no beefsteak we could put on would do any good. After a time the excitement was over and I was again back at my pecking. I have always been interested in how an author gets that first idea. ?nme of mine have come from defi nite and concrete happenings, as I have already mentioned. But sometimes some-times writers don't remember where their ideas came from, or how they got them. In this connection I think of Howard Lindsay. I was invited to dinner with him and Dorothy sticknev. his wife. As we were talk ing before dinner, he said: "This afternoon I was reading to Dorothy a collection of stones Dy ciarence Day about his father. I told Dorothy I thought the stories might somehow, some-how, be turned into a play." He went on to say he didn't know how it could be done, but that a central idea had come to him. And this was that the father and mother should clash all the way through the play, and that the father should be drawn as blustery and the mother soft and gentle and that she should be the one to win out One afternoon, after the play was running. I was in his dressing room and mentioned that I had seen him the very day he had bad that first Bash.' But by now the central idea for the play was so well established estab-lished in his mind and so much a nart of him that he had forgotten how ana wnen ut . (TO EE CONTINUED) 8750 .A Ml ijljl Date Frock. A TEEN-AGE favorite this low, round - necked "date" frock has the long-waisted silhouette juniors approve of. Narrow ribbon rib-bon lacing is a striking accent. Self or contrasting ruffles are charming. Pattern No. 8750 Is designed for sizes 11, 12. 13, 14, 16 and 18. 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The English flag of St. George, the Scottish flag of St. Andrew, and the Irish flag of St. Patrick. a 1 1 1 - Wizard of Oz Newsrcel American soldiers in the Far East have discovered numerous persons who believe that all motion mo-tion pictures including such films of fantasy as "The Wizard of Oz" and "Alice in Wonderland" are like newsreels and depict the real life of real people. I mile Awhi The End of Her "Are you inviting Mrs. Standoff to your party, Mrs. Malaprop?" queried a friend. "Not me," answered that lady. "I hentertained her once and she never recuperated." Shady Job - "When was Roma built, Jimmy?'' asked teacher. "In the night." "What gave you that idea?" "Well, you told lu Rome wasn't built in a day. Good Idea Tad How are you this morning, morn-ing, Jasper? Jasper (grumpily) All right. Tad Better notify your face. Japs Inform Sun Goddess Of All Important Events Japan's most sacred shrine is a small wooden building at Ise, 250 air miles from Tokyo, which is dedicated to Amaterasu, the Sun goddess, who has been informed of all important events in that country for 2,500 years, says Colliers. Col-liers. The emperor," for Instance, goes there to announce the birth of a royal baby, and the premier pre-mier to tell of a declaration of war. . Millions of ordinary pilgrims also visit it annually, although they are forbidden to pass through even the first of the four fences surrounding the temple, which contains, incidentally, nothing but Amaterasu's mirror. Identifying Jap Planes Soon after Pearl Harbor, American Amer-ican airmen, finding the Japanese designations for Jap airplanes too clumsy, developed and adopted officially of-ficially their own system, giving the code name of a boy or girl to each type. 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