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George Ade was an author who proved that writing as a profession would pay a
handsome living to a man with the right combination of human sympathy, good
craftsmanship and steady application. His Fables In Slang,
published in periodicals, syndicated and collected in several books, brought him
fame as a humorist, a classification he never quite accepted for himself.
His musical comedies and plays brought him a larger income and international fame.
His poetry was undistinguished. His travel sketches gave him satisfaction but added
little to his luster. He lives on as a "warm-hearted satirist,"
the title given him by his biographer, Fred C. Kelly.
(George Ade: Warmhearted Satirist, by Fred C.
Kelly, 1947.)
Born in Kentland, Ind., Feb. 9, 1866, George Ade had a happy childhood and
later a gay youth at Purdue University, where he graduated in 1887 without having displayed any interest in either engineering or
agriculture but where he shone modestly in the literary field. He did journalistic
work in Lafayette until June, 1890, when he went to
Chicago and started work on the CHICAGO DAILY NEWS (which
became the CHICAGO NEWS RECORD, then THE
CHICAGO RECORD). For ten years he was a prolific writer and was closely
associated with his friend, John T. McCutcheon, the cartoonist.
It was in his daily column, captioned "Stories of the Streets and of the
Town," that his "Pink Marsh," "Doc'
Home," and "Artie" stories appeared, as well as his
earliest fables. Scattered through the column were embryonic plays,
"playlets" and dialogue, all containing shrewd observations,
brevity of wit and entertainment.
His reports of the Columbian Exposition in 1893 had made
him aware of the foreign world and had given him a thirst to travel. In 1895 and 1898 he visited the
strange places he had seen in miniature at the Chicago Fair. Throughout his life he
enjoyed trips around the world and particularly cruises to the West Indies.
In 1900 his fables were syndicated. By this time several
books had appeared, collected from his newspaper column, and he started his
play-writing career in earnest. The first decade in the Twentieth Century saw them written, produced and
published; later Ade received further dividends when they were in demand for motion
pictures.
His summer home near Brook, Ind., called
"Hazelden," was built in 1903, and his
hospitality brought him more fame. Here he entertained political rallies and
community parties, as well as his friends and brothers in Sigma Chi. His private
golf course became a regional club under his fine organizing ability. From December
to May he was usually at home in Miami
Beach, Fla.,
the most agreeable spot for winter-living that he found in his travels. He never
married.
Why is George Ade's name generally placed with Booth
Tarkington's, next to James Whitcomb Riley's,
at the top of the list of Indiana's literary men? Good writing and hard
work and a sincere love for his fellow man must be the answer. He touched more lives
than most of us because he was not content to meet people and pass on; he kept them
as friends up to his death on May 16, 1944, and on
beyond. His personal correspondence approached literary production, for he never
neglected it, and when it became too much for individual response he issued
mimeographed "news bulletins." The quality of friendship is
therefore proved to be a good companion to literary ability and effort, in the life
and work of George Ade.
Dorothy R. Russo.
- Stories of the Streets and of the Town [First Series].Chicago, 1894.
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