The Logan Republican. [volume] (Logan, Utah) 1902-1924, 1916-01-29

'""oouced 10 the Screen by the
Famous Players Film Company
Mark Twain's beloved story OF The
Prince and the Pauper, the first of
the great American humorist's works
to be filmed, which the Famous Play
ers Film Company is presenting at
the Lyric Theater Friday and Satur-
day on the Paramount Program. re.
lates how the little Prince Edward.
weary of the routine life OF the great
palace OF the king, wanders forth
to the palace gate in search of am
usement. He arrives in time to see
the guards abusing ragged urchin
whom they are about to expel from
the premises and who bears a re.
markable resemblance to himself In.
terested by the boy, the prince orders
the soldiers to desist and then pro-
ceeds to question him about the life
he leads. Enthralled by the vision
of freedom which the beggar child re-
lates to him the prince envies the
lad his position.
The beggar child, his mind teem-
/ ing with the stories OF princes and
their countless riches, which he has
heard from the lips Of the parish
priest, Is entranced with the thought
of being in the presence of royalty.
So when the prince declares that he
would willingly change his life for
that OF the pauper the bargain is soon
struck and the two change their
clothes.
Naturally, due to their astonishing
resemblance and the changed appear
ance of their clothes, each is mistak-
en- for the other and there are innum-
cradle complications. The suddenly
elevated pauper Is treated with all
possible Difference by the court and
when he denies that he is actually
the prince, he is confined by the grief
stricken king, who issues orders that
anyone speaking of the princes dis
temper shall be Immediately behead-
ed.
The prince meanwhile Is faring ev-
en- less happily than his protege. He
has fallen into the hands of the des-
perate fater of the beggar who is
himself a notorious thief. AS the irate
man is about to beat his supposed
son for running away the boy Is res
cued by Miles Hendon whom the
prince Immediately dubs knight,
much to the amusement of the gallant
hero. who OF course believes that he
is talking to the son Of the filthy beg
gar.
The prince, then meets gang of
thieves. who, delighted with his spir-
1t and daring, decree that he is too
valuable child to be beggar and
that they will train him in the ways
OF a clever thief. After innumerable
adventures, among them an encounter
with a mad hermit who believes him.
self an archangel and attempts to sac
rifice the prince in cold blood as he
sleeps. the royal wanderer arrives at
the palace Just In time to prevent
the coronation of his own protege.
The king has died and the beggar
who is still supposed to be the prince,
has been declared the heir to the
throne. AS the lowly child. attired
in the most regal of costumes. APP
pears at the head OF the coronation
procession on its way to Westminster
Abbey the ragged prince bursts into
the midst OF the scene and proclaims
himself the true aspirant to the
throne.
The glamor OF royalty has long
since been dispelled In the heart of
the little beggar who again Graves
the freedom of the road, and he is
swift to admit the identity OF the real
prince. Moreover, the illusion of
the prince has been swept away and
he has long since decided that the
life which he has always led Is the
one best suited to him.
So 1t is that each is contented to
return to the life to which he was
bred and that each decides In his
wise little heart that there is much
wisdom in the disposition of our
fates and that each should be content
with his own lot, not aspire to climb
to world Of which he Is not a part