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which he appeared at his best. But "Brutus'* and where with a feeling and sincerity and sympathy
"Charles I I " are now forgotten. Great in their no other song evokes.
Final Payment of Salary Due the Late John
day, their day was short lived, and nothing now
ONE ONJ;HE STAR.
Howard Payne as U. S. Consul Brings to
remains of them, save the memories that cluster
Mind His Authorship of "Home, Sweet
around them. No more enduring, either, was the
Booth Tarkington, the well known author, was
Home"—Frist Sung in 1823.
play in which "Home, Sweet Home" was first sung. talking recently about the stage.
This was "Clari, or the Maid of Milan," and it
"There were two young women in an early play
Like an echo from the half-forgotten past comes was produced in 1823. The first to sing the song of mine," he said, "both very beautiful. The lead-
the word from Washington that a ibill has been in- was Miss M. Tree.
ing woman was very thin. One day, at rehearsal,
troduced in the Senate providing for the payment
So the record runs. Save the gem itself, little she quarreled with the other woman, and said :
of $205 to the legal heirs of John Howard Payne. remains. The song has outlived author, play and
" 'Remember, please, that I am the star.'
More than sixty years have passed since the author
singer. Payne wrote better than he knew. Thirty
"'Yes,' was the answer; 'I know you are the
of "Home, Sweet Home," died in Tunis, and it has years after his death his body was brought from star.' Then, eyeing the leading woman's long,
been ninety-one years since his plaintive iballad
Tunis and laid to final rest in the soil of his native slim figure, she continued:
was first sung in public. Not many songs have land, and, on that occasion, a thousand voices were
" 'You arc certainly the star, but you'd look bet-
lived so long, and few, indeed, there have been blended in the singing of his great melody. But, ter, my dear, if you were a little meteor.'"
with greater or broader appeal in either melody or
appropriate and impressive as it was, this tribute
words. Millions have sung Payne's "Home, Sweet
was small compared to the fact that his song, to-
Any member of the music trade can forward
Home," and millions more, no doubt, will sing it day, more than any other song, is sung the whole to this office a Want Advertisement and i t will
in the future, but the memory of its author has
world, round, and always and by singers every- be inserted free of charge.
grown dim in the passing of the years, and of
those who know the song the number is not great
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To him Edmund Kean owed not a little of his
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