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George Ade Warmhearted Satirist Fred C Kelly 9781163151211 Books
George Ade is almost but not quite forgotten now, but he was among the very best writers in the period just before the moving pictures changed American humor for the worse. What passes for humor now is scabrous, screeching and abrasive. "Be careful not to hurt anyone's feelings" was one piece of advice he gave to younger writers.The folks in northeast Indiana didn't think he'd amount to much. They advised his father to send him to college, since it was obvious he'd never make a farmer. From Purdue he went to Chicago newspapers, which shaped the form of his humor - short, pithy, consciously well-crafted and deferential to the standards of elite taste.
The other great humor writer of the generation after Twain (who overlapped both), Harry Leon Wilson, missed college and newspapers, and his humor, which is basically like Ade's, is fuller. He wrote books. Ade wrote sketches. (Both wrote plays.)
Ade reported types, Wilson created personalities.
Both were serious, although after an early attempt to social fiction ("Lions of the Lord"), Wilson gave in to money-making and melodrama. Ade started out frivolous but turned serious after putting his humorous writing into semi-retirement around 1920.
Ade was an individualist, though not of rebellious cast. Born into solid Republican country, he was a really a liberal Democrat, although he was 60 before he quite realized it. After covering the national political conventions of both parties (overlapping with H.L. Mencken), he became a delegate himself, supporting Teddy Roosevelt for patriotic and progressive reasons.
He went back to being a regular until '28, when the anticatholic attacks on Al Smith repulsed him. Fred Kelly, a friend and hagiographer, says that "no one ever saw George Ade angry," but he came close once, labeling the Christian bigots who slandered Smith "mental dwarfs."
Up until that time he had often pointed out the foibles of country bumpkins, but neutrally. By '32, Ade was voting for Franklin Roosevelt.
Though Kelly does not go into it, Ade must have often felt odd man out among his Republican friends. He opposed Prohibition, and when he started a golf club, he insisted that membership be racially inclusive. (Kelly does not say how that worked out; I presume that the by-law was aimed at letting in Jews, and not blacks, of whom there were few in Newton County.)
Because he wrote up types and not individuals, Ade's individual pieces (the most famous are the "Fables in Slang") are as fresh today as when new but slip easily out of the memory, whereas no one who ever made the acquaintance of Wilson's Ma Pettingill or Uncle Peter ever forgot them.
He was not only a sharp observer but also a subtle psychologist. At Hazelden, his country place, where he entertained on heroic scales, he instructed the staff to make women's drinks a little weaker, and while he had no objection to a cocktail, he also told the staff to make sure no young person ever got his first hard drink at Hazelden.
He liked to get along with everybody. Kelly writes, "He thought there was too much of a premium on the negative virtues. 'The man who stands in the middle of the street and says, "Let's get a rope and go and hang some one," will find a hundred willing volunteers to help him, but the one who proposes a lot of hard manual labor for the good of the community will find himself standing alone, talking to himself . . . Sometimes I feel that my plans for improving conditions never arrive anywhere because I am always an advocate of doing something instead of prohibiting something.' "
Like I say, he must have felt odd man out among his Republican friends. Perhaps that explains why he spent so much time overseas.
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George Ade Warmhearted Satirist Fred C Kelly 9781163151211 Books Reviews
George Ade is almost but not quite forgotten now, but he was among the very best writers in the period just before the moving pictures changed American humor for the worse. What passes for humor now is scabrous, screeching and abrasive. "Be careful not to hurt anyone's feelings" was one piece of advice he gave to younger writers.
The folks in northeast Indiana didn't think he'd amount to much. They advised his father to send him to college, since it was obvious he'd never make a farmer. From Purdue he went to Chicago newspapers, which shaped the form of his humor - short, pithy, consciously well-crafted and deferential to the standards of elite taste.
The other great humor writer of the generation after Twain (who overlapped both), Harry Leon Wilson, missed college and newspapers, and his humor, which is basically like Ade's, is fuller. He wrote books. Ade wrote sketches. (Both wrote plays.)
Ade reported types, Wilson created personalities.
Both were serious, although after an early attempt to social fiction ("Lions of the Lord"), Wilson gave in to money-making and melodrama. Ade started out frivolous but turned serious after putting his humorous writing into semi-retirement around 1920.
Ade was an individualist, though not of rebellious cast. Born into solid Republican country, he was a really a liberal Democrat, although he was 60 before he quite realized it. After covering the national political conventions of both parties (overlapping with H.L. Mencken), he became a delegate himself, supporting Teddy Roosevelt for patriotic and progressive reasons.
He went back to being a regular until '28, when the anticatholic attacks on Al Smith repulsed him. Fred Kelly, a friend and hagiographer, says that "no one ever saw George Ade angry," but he came close once, labeling the Christian bigots who slandered Smith "mental dwarfs."
Up until that time he had often pointed out the foibles of country bumpkins, but neutrally. By '32, Ade was voting for Franklin Roosevelt.
Though Kelly does not go into it, Ade must have often felt odd man out among his Republican friends. He opposed Prohibition, and when he started a golf club, he insisted that membership be racially inclusive. (Kelly does not say how that worked out; I presume that the by-law was aimed at letting in Jews, and not blacks, of whom there were few in Newton County.)
Because he wrote up types and not individuals, Ade's individual pieces (the most famous are the "Fables in Slang") are as fresh today as when new but slip easily out of the memory, whereas no one who ever made the acquaintance of Wilson's Ma Pettingill or Uncle Peter ever forgot them.
He was not only a sharp observer but also a subtle psychologist. At Hazelden, his country place, where he entertained on heroic scales, he instructed the staff to make women's drinks a little weaker, and while he had no objection to a cocktail, he also told the staff to make sure no young person ever got his first hard drink at Hazelden.
He liked to get along with everybody. Kelly writes, "He thought there was too much of a premium on the negative virtues. 'The man who stands in the middle of the street and says, "Let's get a rope and go and hang some one," will find a hundred willing volunteers to help him, but the one who proposes a lot of hard manual labor for the good of the community will find himself standing alone, talking to himself . . . Sometimes I feel that my plans for improving conditions never arrive anywhere because I am always an advocate of doing something instead of prohibiting something.' "
Like I say, he must have felt odd man out among his Republican friends. Perhaps that explains why he spent so much time overseas.
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