The Minneapolis journal. [volume], March 14, 1906, Page 11, Image 11

About The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939

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What He Has Done
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He. left Purdue University in Indiana and "broke
into" the newspaper business at Chicago. He was
the "long legs" on the Chicago News, getting as*
signments at first that covered more miles of streets
than space in the paper. He developed into a splen-
did descriptive writer, but fame didn't come until
'Tables in Slang" were started as a daily editorial
page feature.
"Artie" followed soon afterward, and then Pink
^larsh," and Ade's fame was made and royalties be-
gan to flow. He wrote "The Sultan of Sulu," a comic
opera satire on our Philippine possessions. It was
a hit, and Ade left newspaper work and in rapid suc-
cession completed "Peggy from Paris," "The Col-
lege Widow," "The County Chairman," "The Bad!
.Samaritan" and "Just Out of College." From these
plays and from his books Ade ^raw royalties said by
some of his friends to be not less* than $3,500 a week.
r" George Ade "In Pastures- New" is the telling title of a series of vastly
interesting letters which the Indiana artist irl slang is now in London^prepar-
ing for Sunday Journal readers.
In furtherance of a laudable desire to overcome the mysteries ofChau-
cerian English, the premier promoter and purveyor of scrambled language has
crossed the ocean and today in London he kneels and drinks deep from the
fount of unadulterated Saxon.
Fortunate Sunday Journal readers, assured of vast entertainment from
the reading of letters which at the outset promise to surpass Mark Twainfct
"Innocents Abroad," will And in Ade's radical departure from slang stories al-
most delightful surprise. With the author meeting the great ones of Britaini
and with dang battling now and then for supremacy, he tells of his appre-
ciation of the opportunity to "get the English language at first hand to revel 1
in its sublimities and to gaze down new and: awe-inspiring vistas of r.hetor4.
ical splendor." ,_,
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Illustrated by ALBERT LEVERINGthe noted "fanny" artist. Mr. Levering at one time was a cajtoonist in
Minneapolis. He went to New York and came into great prominence as a contributor to Puck," "Judge,", and other "laugh" magazines.
A'fter several years of rest from newspaper-writing, ^George. Ade, now: in London, has again taken up
his pen and will write for The Sunday Journal of things 'he sees and hears on the pther side of the wer.
Those who are familiar with the humorist's" point of view may look forward, with good warrant, to a
refreshing series of letters, wherein the human and humorous de of things will 'be inimitably, set down.
GEORGE ADE,
The Indiana Humorist, Now5
in London, Where He
Writing "In Pastures New" for Sunday
Journal Readers.
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What He Actually Is
The expense of this feature is enormous justified only by tljp fact that
Professor Branded Matthews has classed the dry Indianian as the equal of
Mark Twain, and because the ever-growing charm of his books and plays
makes everything from his pen eagerly sought for by the laughter-loving but
i thoughtful andof women of the land.
Inxthimen series talks the author takes up the predicament in"
man finds himself when suddenly set down amidst unfamiliar scenes and
strange environments. Ade, typical American, finds himself in this predica-
#:h ment iri London. A feeling of lonesomeness overcomes him because he finds
'^M himself a fbreigner speaking a strange tongue.
^1"A few Americans," he writes, "say fifty or more in Boston and several
in New York, are said to speak English in spots. Very often they fan, but
sometimes they hit the ball. By patient endeavor they have mastered the^ sound*.: 3
of 'a' as in father, but they continue to call a clerk a clerk instead of a 'cjark,':
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-He's a tall thin, slightly round-shouldered In- 7r
dianian possessed of a soft, low voice, a wealth of J^^^
dry humor and naive,Slangy observations ~but hes
stingy with his conversation.
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He's a modes* man of about 35 years, who, by
the penning of picturesquely scrambled language,
first gained fame and then fortune, yet the measure
of his hatband has not increase^ a fraction since the
days when, as an indefatigable reporter, "he wrote
vastly more for vastly less.
He lives in a beautiful home at Brooke, Ind.,
when home, and at the Holland House in New York
when resting, for his recreation is taken in thevme-
tropolis and his work isMone in the Indiana solitudes.
He is single, despite the fact that rumor has in-
sisted within the past three^ears in engaging him to
a number of charming ladies. V--n,L.
and they never have gained the courage to say (leftenent/ They wander on*iv* -':*r-'
the suburbs of the English language,nibbling at,the,edges as it we^'VC^^t^'.fv,
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