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Show DONT FORGET THAT ADVERTISING IS A FINE TONIC FOR BUSINESS THE JOURNAL MIGHTY OLUME XUV. SECOND SECTION LOGAN CITY, CACHE COUNTY, UTAH, TUESDAY, MAY 8. 1923 NUMBER 110 HOME. SWEET HOME yryyyyycyx? yyyy cyryyyyty yyyyyyyy.y'ryr ay cssKyyyyr.yiyzyyyyyyyyr; Centennial of the Worlds Most Appealing Song-ltsAut- hor Was Distinguished Actor and First Used in Opera. Playwright lijr NORMAN a McLOl'O creative talent that an English writer said of him: "He was the first American author whose plays were known on the British stage and adopted at the stock pieces of national theatres, hs gave to England and America the moat popular tragedy Brutua. ths moat popular comedy: 'Charlea tha the moat popular meloSecond, drama: Thercse.' and the moat popular aong. Home, Sweet Home of the In days In which each appeared. addition to these achievements. Payne was an actor of exceptional gifts, and the came writer referred to him as the "first American actor whose repute- Crossed the ocean." Brilliant Actor Paynes reputations as a writer came after he had daxzlytd the Bona Three things are brought to mind world with his talent as by the approaching centennial of the an actor. Born on June 8. 1781. near birth of the famous song with which the corner of Broad and Pearl streets, the name of Payne Is forever asso- New York City, ths future celebrity The anniversary will occur epent the moat of his early boyhood ciated. one hundred at the family homestead at East cn Tuesday, May 8 years from the day ths aong ,wai Hampton, Long Island, which will ba the point of focus for popular Intereet given tq the world by the gifted American writer. The first hearing of the In th coming centenary. The old song Wat at Covent Carden Theatre. home Is still standing, and la preIn London. .To the averago person It served as a memorial. comes 'as something of a surprise to Payaoa life was one ofrreat loneknow that tha famous ballad was liness. In spite of the applause to originally a part of an opera. So which he became accustomed. After bavo wa become to regard- the death of his parents, when hs was ing It as an Individual tong that ws thirteen years of age. he was forever have lost sight Of Its early setting In homeless. First In Boston and later the score of an evening's entertain- In New York, he devoted his early ment, where It was but an Incident of youth to work In business establishthe general action. ments. but with the constantly growWrote Many Plays ing tendency towards the stage. His sarllest contact with tha theatrs was Tha opera was one of fifty or mofe ra through his work In editing the works for the stage which came the gifted pen of John Howard Payne. "Thespian Mirror. a theatrical pubThese works covered the entire range lication. Fired with ambition for tlie of dramatic writing, from tragedy to footlights, hs gained the longedor farce and from straight drama and goal through an Initial apearance at York, Febopera to realistic melodrama. In all the Park Theatre, in New was hardly thee types' of writing Payne showed ruary 24. 1S09, when he HI success was himself a master. Whether In orig- eili'ecn -nd ork theitrecper inal construction or In adaptation, New n .. the marvel ot the from the French, he wrought with lif. unlail- - wi h1- - IP- - I In "v w.i described a evnl- exceeding kill Horn. Bweet U glory enough t or any and would bring the fame that has been given to tew wrltera el nee the beginning of time. In the case ot John Howard Payne, however, It la but an incident merely one of several achievements sntltllng him to his secure position In the regard of future generations. Payns was a man of many sldea Other than his celebrated song, his poetry Is perhaps the least of his contributions to his own celebrity. Practically none of his other verse have gained popularity. In the record of hie works he Is best known as a.play-wrlgand an actor with the exception, of courts, of his enduring reputation as the author of "Home, Sweet have written CO ht English-s- peaking , ele.-trfc- : ( n- -e tng that of the most finished artists and ons critic even went so far as to declars that "In force of genius and taste In belles left res there ars few actors On any stags who can claim any competition with him. His Name Was Norval Ths first role attempted by the prodigy was that of young Norval, known to every American school boy for hla announcement that "on ths Grampian Hills my father feeds his flocks. Ths itlay, by Holmes Douglas. was a favorite with all young aotora of ths period, and In essaying the role of Nona!. Payne was Inviting comparison with the beet of them. The results In New York were followed by similar triumphs In Boston, Providence. Philadelphia and Baltimore, in sll of which cltlee tha man who wa destined to write the world's greatest song was acclaimed as tha great actor of the day. In Poston ha added Hamlet to a repertory which already Included Romeo- - and other characters, and his success is declared to have even exceeded that which he had enjoyed la New ork. London triumphs followed In HIT. when Payne was scarcely 82. With Nor el .is Initial role, b.y Ameri- were repeater In the .i we-r- -i ritlsh ' ap.lal. and In various cities throughout England and Ireland (py-zyyy- yy syoyyyyyz? yyyyy cyryyy-rypy? 7 yyyyyy. y?- cr-- appear in his own play. "Brutus had a run of fifty nights a record almost unheard of gt that period and did much for ths Drury Lane and for Kean. In later years, during a visit to America, "the sails from horns had the satisfaction of seeing the role of Brutus enacted Ifi a Washington theatre by the elder Booth, with young Edwin Booth, as a lad of Hi playing the role of Titos. This was thirty-on- e years after the In spite of the plaiidtts of enthusiastic American and English audiences and critics, Payne was restless anS A few years after hit dissatisfied. conquest of Great Britain hs turned to ths writing of dramatic literature. His best known play Is Brutus, that favorite tragedy of Edmund Kean on the London stage and of such great actors as the two Booths, Porrest and Coopsr on this sida of the Atlantic. This play was written In London In lilt, with Kean In mind for the title role, and with the dramatist himself Intending to play the role of Titus. In this latter aim. however, the young author was overruled by Stephen Kemble, manager of Drury Lane Theatre. whr the play was first proidwr 1111. Kembls duced In " . . hs wholly Im- declT-- 1 '.ia i writer to imimr ,ic i play had received Its first American production at the Park Theatre, New York, on March II, 1118. The Birth Of "Homo, Sweet Home From Parle, In 1881. Payge submitted to the management of Covent Osrden the manuscript which was destined to bring fame eternal. Ths offering was "fharl. Ihs Maid of Milan, oralnlallv wrl"i a a drams. . . make. So lie appealed to the el- put; one might eat with ones! Bex Reach is chairman of the merely beautiful and effective ectric light company to keep its knife in safety; customers Mere general congress committee for photography. The last two years o n ghosts busy at home. Authors' League, which also, have seen the business put on a reassured; help was again ob-'tRESTAURANT The manager of the station tamable. includes Samuel I lopkins Adams firm and stable financial basis. thought the restaurant man The big field of picture proSaid the restaurant man, Ive George larr Baker, Edwin PATRONS might he spoofing- or somethin;. gress, therefore, lies in developso lie decided on a personal in- - heard about tins personal mag- - Bjorkman, Ellis Parker Butler, screen long the soundest the ing an(! howto get it. Inin S. Cobb, George Creel, C artistic vestigation. It was all too true. i?ctisni Millions of ( !v Science Sen ice. enough, Ill tell the B. Falls, Charles Dana Gibson, people allprinciples. Steel table knives set for seiv-iv- e over the world not onNo world. more magnetism in John Golden, Clayton Hamilton, ly get all of their amusement NEW YORK, .May S. Ghost ice leaped out of place and rethanks. Rupert Hughes, Edward llun- - from are said to walk abroad at flight mained righily-- fixed, giving ip- - nijne, And'Thf.s'i.-Tfhof the gerfordWifl Irwin; Otsov Isnv afstf motion pictures, but they as to the possible story prehensions depend largely in country churchyards or to fate of a customer who now lamuos magnetic ghost of ell ge l.ai l i IcC u.cheon, for their cultural attemptdevelopment. Manila tan haunt old, old hou.es, or to wan- ed to eat with his knife; Island. on Geor Middle ge Harvey O iron of pictur. der in fai'-odeserted places; pot iiteded Sandow cooks to Higgins Parsons, I ony lmHJucerrK'Sfe fostering AUHORS SET not but cities have been suppos- pry them from the stoe, and DATE Sarg, "' the M)mid taste and artistic FOR BIG GATHERING ed to be their favorite resoits, other weird ' demonstrations standards in those people is an Ivfj1,1 Mnvifo . TO eveial in such and nor cities any nucivu abounded. But he had found public distinguished t.nWmous one. I know produc- unromantic a place as a lunch his ghost. European writers as well as dele- - l,rs have tried to How motion picture producers gates from the British and the room or restaurant. And so it It seems that near the wall was with feelings of mingled as- on the side of the electric station ,caI ald in. fostering sound taste french authors societies wihljh(, industry has been so swift tonishment and dismay that a nearest the restaurant" were ,an artistic standards among attend. attention has had to be conthat restaurant keeper in this city re- many large electrical conduct- - t,le People of the world will be, Eric Schuler, secretary of the centrated on the physical develcently observed what looked like ors, each carrying heavy cur- - discussed in New York June 7 League, said plans for the de- - opment of the picture business. 8 at an international gath-- J tails of the conference have been ghostly pranks played upon his rents to and from the convei ters all(l In discharging this responsifurniture, employees, air'd pat- - or transformers as they are el'n8' ot novelists, dramatists. in preparation by the committee bility, we should have the best and leaders of thought and Mr. Zukors representatives advice and rons, according to a report of the sometimes called. Now it is ala,-tistguidance available, number of lines, for a number of weeks. One of and , am a soon Foundation of an electric current Engineering toj property therefore, inviting the I w ill he of will be the the congiess featuies held by conference be published. to produce a magnetic field,' Authors League to join with me It was seemingly a very mod-- ! tpute similar to that of a big na- - the Authors league of America be the announcement by Mr.;in hoI(linJ the which ern ghost, specializing in electn-- j tural magnet, and the lines of 3010 in cooperation with Ad-c- Zukoi of a senes of pnzes wj Pxpore the artistic and to several thousand tural effects. Plated table ware! force ol such a field can pass "1P1' Zukor, president of the possibilities of the motion dollars which he will offer to Cor would not stay put hut frisked through a brick wall about ab Famous Players-Lask- y art lt is my hope that picture The gathering will be those elements about in unaccountable ways; easily as through nothing at all. turn. contributing fhe' men'mid w ome'n'eDresent- Con-- ! most to the motion iron pots rooted themselves to Iron articles in such a Held e knon as the International pictures at- - jpg the best ip American thought Stove, watches w ere stopped ; come themsch es magnet.zed gross on Motion Picture Arts. tistic development duiing the and taste will evolve some set of . Invitations to attend this first year. customers paid just one visit, t,-to line up along the lines which yanje-accept- ed In his invitation to the Auth-- i principleskihd of are the held the straftge doings, and fled;of f(m.e Uit as a being gathering the motion need-t- o ,jy industry compass issued to leading nvelists, art- - ors Ieague, Mr. Zukor said, in' as its artistic pictureOur return no more. Help was aim is guide. edists. dramatists, editors and part: While the artistic Pwill' lie Something ce to have a conference that mai?!eti-sof ear the of the motion picture has, to the motion ucatnrs. and to others promin-.gres- s must be done, the ghost must picture what the th. 1'he restaurant, or at least (,nt in belaid. , ' i Now it happened that next muchof it hardware, was mag- - this country but also- in Europe, ment so far in the pictures short letters' what t hVl ? al', in career has been view to developing the; door was a necessarily mannfl (with a of the 1 net ized. j,. fd i,.hlv, foundation is tn in stabiliwill elthe guide picture pns- .craftsmanship apd lines of force will pass through hoped, restaurateur, observing the American journalism GHOST but converted Into an opfera and presented at ths London playhouse on May I of that year. On so slight a thread does fortune suspend Its favors, thet It the work had gained the stage in Its original form there would have been no need for music and "Home, Sweet Home might, never have enriched the world's singing. Because ot failure to place the piece as a drama. Payne made the change to opera, and the great song was born ot this transformation, as an essential part ot the story. "Chari was the simple tale of a beautiful Italian peasant girl who had eloped with the Duke Yaraldl, and had been transported to surroundings of luxury and wealth ot which she bad never dreamed. In the midst of all ths splendor her thoughts turned to the peaceful home from which the had fled, and at thle point In the action came the singing of "Home, Sweet Home. The song met with Instantaneous success It was heard everywhere and during the first year the London publisher sold more than a tremendous sals for 100,000 copies those daya The opera ran for the greater part bf the London season, and was accounted n brilliant success, but In spite of this, and n profit of more than two thousand guineas, the publisher Is declared to have emitted the nsme of Payne on the title page of ths cslebrated song and to have failed to send the writer even so much as a single authors copy. The mu tie for the song earns from lolly. As sung by an Italian peasant mold a few years earlier, ha appealing melody had constantly haunted Payns during ths sueestding years, and tbs strain suggested the words which became Immortal, After writing ths song. Payns sent It to Henry R. Bishop, with s crude transcription of ths mtlody and Bishop arranged ths muslo Into eomplsts harmony, with ths words and thus was born ths song which has mors universal appeal and has bsen mors widely sung than any other composition In ths musical history .of ths world. As ussd la ths opera, ths song had tbs words of today, but In the original manuscript thers were additional lines la each versa. As preserved In this earlier form the phrasing was as follows: Mid Bs It aver so humbls, thsrss no placs Ilka horns! charm from tha sky seems to hah low us there, (Like ths lovs of a mother, surpassing all other). Which, seek-- - through tha world, hi nter met with elsewhere, , , , Theres a spell in ths shads ' Where our iufanry played, Evan 'stronger than time, and more . deep than despair. An axil from home, splendor daisies In vslal Oh givs ms my lowly thatched cottage ' . again! Tbs bird and ths lambkins that cams at my call. Those who naiiied ms with pride, Those who played by my aids - T Give ms them with ths Innocence dearer than all! Ths Joys of ths palace Through which I roam. Only swell , my hearts anguish theres no pises Ilka home! . Ths only changes la ths song as known today, from this original form, ars ths elimination of half ths lines In each Versa and ths revision of two lines tnTftsscond versa. One of ths lines revised now omits reference to ths lambkins nod reads "The birds 1 singing gayty that cams st my call. Ths other revision changed ths final line of ths second verse, as now , to read: "Give ms them) andsung. ths peace of mind, dearer than sH. Payns oevsr married.. Much sif his g loneliness expressed In his celebrated song, was due io the loot romance of his eCrly mlnhOod in'"--" Pits of reciprocal devotion, parental ensssd ths ,, n tngsgement on which brssklnf of Payne had centered his entire hops of happiueta, . His nature haver came ths dlsappolntmnt, and thisover, sor-ro- w was in large measure responsible for ths writing of Homs, bweet Home died Payns April 19, mi. n Tunl Algeria, whers hs was American eon auL in H78. the fiftieth anniversary of ths birth of "Home, Bweet Homs was marked by the unveiling of. a , handsome bust of the author In Pros- pect Park. Brooklyn, Xew York, on which occasion one thousand school children sang the deathless song while v IS. 000 people Joined tn singing ths f chorus, as a tribute to ths man who pleasures and palaces though ws gave maultlnd It. greatest musical anfi most s!:.!lnr musical offering.. may roam, A -- -- lirs-lon- , t.. ALARMS LITTLE TALKS ON THRIFT he by S. VV. STRAUS, Prtiident American Society for Thrift ' ! j 1 e fi 1 j : slbilitviTurthrwthf J s i , al ) . j be-th- he-'.(,- K - v - j - sub-statio- n j el-- i ' Not doing things well is no etler than not doing them at all. To perform ones tasks thor- of human endeavor is io wids that individual effort to be effective must be limited to definite; N . s linesl ' oughly is a very good exemplification 6f thrift because it tsOnly through this thoroughness of performance that progress is piade. There is an okl proverb to the effect that the fellow with one idea generally grows fich, while he who calls him a fool dies poor. No Blatter what mans The young mad of today has tt limitless range of opportunities before him and he can successfully .fit into the scheme of progress if he realizes that there is always' need for those who can dd things well. -- Our' schools and Colleges will soon be sending men and youngwomen out? young into the world. They have completed their aca-- j dernic lessons, trtj their a occupation may be, If he excels in his work, you will find him steadily moving He may upward. only be able to do one thing, but if he can do it thoroughly and successfully, circumstance will drive him into' more important1 duties . A great many young men fail to get on in the world simply1 because of superficiality in accomplishment, which is but an- -' other name for thriftlcssticss in J time and opportunity. The prohichis of life are so large and before they still havi them those lessons, can , be learned only; which in the practical school of life. Ini entering this new life perhaps th one lesson they should learn fir of all is that it is better to kno one thing well tL'n to know a, score of things Officially, and . that it is better ,jt tie able to do pne thing Tight than to have twenty slipshod accomplishments, The. slogan Mo it now is not, jiuKaiAiuassiiu' coin; - Xak thfe,. KM., ihu mmia the cultural de- Tixlay we have pretty nearly 'History verifies the fact that fifteenth century.. She wished 70 patents hi as r. spimguessea that it might heavy steel plates were set up ligations toward somehow have escaped fioni his .along tfiewall ! the .ub suinm velopment of millions of people attained peifeetion in photog- - the practice of starching, which to hide a blemish on her tries, tf--t estir. over the world who rely oniraphy. lighting, scenery and in came into fashion in England in with an enormous ruff. proper domain since U is espec-- ! tow aids the restaurant, 'lhe ll el h is abmit- T ' ially true of eiectnca! pi itesl feet waS magical: the ghost was. the screen mr their principal jother phases of picture produc-Jth- e To have an invention prc-- j reign of Queen Elizabeth, turn w hich go into the making of was invented by a Spanish worn Ucted all over the world it is that stone w alls do not a pi ison laid. 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