Biography
George Ade (February 9, 1866 – May 16, 1944) was an American writer, syndicated newspaper columnist, and playwright who gained national notoriety at the turn of the 20th century with his "Stories of the Streets and of the Town", a column that used street language and slang to describe daily life in Chicago, and a column of his fables in slang, which were humorous stories that featured vernacular speech and the liberal use of capitalization in his characters' dialog.
Ade's fables in slang gained him wealth and fame as an American humorist, as well as earning him the nickname of the "Aesop of Indiana". His notable early books include Artie (1896); Pink Marsh (1897); Fables in Slang (1900), the first in a series of books; and In Babel (1903), a collection of his short stories. His first play produced for the Broadway stage was The Sultan of Sulu, written in 1901. The Sho-Gun and his best-known plays, The County Chairman and The College Widow, were simultaneously appearing on Broadway in 1904. Ade also wrote scripts and had some of his fables and plays adapted into motion pictures.
During the first quarter of the 20th century, Ade, along with Booth Tarkington, Meredith Nicholson, and James Whitcomb Riley helped to create a Golden Age of literature in Indiana.
The Purdue University graduate from rural Newton County, Indiana, began his career in journalism as a newspaper reporter in Lafayette, Indiana, before moving to Chicago, Illinois, to work for the Chicago Daily News. In addition to writing, Ade enjoyed traveling, golf, and entertaining at Hazelden, his estate home near Brook, Indiana. Ade was also a member of Purdue University's board of trustees from 1909 to 1916, a longtime member of the Purdue Alumni Association, a supporter of Sigma Chi (his college fraternity), and a former president of the Mark Twain Association of America. In addition, he donated funds for construction of Purdue's Memorial Gymnasium, its Memorial Union Building, and with David Edward Ross, contributed land and funding for construction of Purdue's Ross–Ade Stadium, named in their honor in 1924.
Filmography
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Campus Cinderella (1938)
Freshman Love (1936)
The County Chairman (1935)
Young as You Feel (1931)
Maybe It's Love (1930)
The Fair Co-Ed (1927)
The College Widow (1927)
The Confidence Man (1924)
Woman-Proof (1923)
The Slim Princess (1920)
The Fable of the Throbbing Genius of a TankTown Who Was Encouraged by Her Folks Who Were Prominent (1916)
The Fable of the Kid Who Shifted His Ideals to Golf and Finally Became a Baseball Fan and Took the Only Known Cure (1916)
Father and the Boys (1915)
The Fable of the Roistering Blades (1915)
The Slim Princess (1915)
The Fable of a Night Given Over to Revelry (1915)
The Fable of Elvira and Farina and the Meal Ticket (1915)
The Fable of the Syndicate Lover (1915)
At the End of a Perfect Day (1915)
The Fable of the City Grafter and the Unprotected Rubes (1915)
Two Dinky Little Dramas of a Non-Serious Kind (1914)
The Fable of the Husband Who Showed Up and Did His Duty (1914)
The Fable of the Bush League Lover Who Failed to Qualify (1914)
The Fable of the Club Girls and the Four Times (1914)
The Fable of Aggie and the Aggravated Attacks (1914)
The Fable 'Proving That Spongers are Found in a Drug Store' (1914)
The Prevailing Craze (1914)
Three Boiled Down Fables (1914)
The Fable of 'How Uncle Brewster Was Too Shifty For the Tempter' (1914)
The Fable of the 'People's Choice Who Answered the Call of Duty and Took Seltzer' (1914)
The Fable of 'The Long Range Lover and the Lollypalooze' (1914)
The Fable of 'The Author and the Dear Public and the Plate of Mush' (1914)
The Fable of the Family That Did Too Much For Nellie (1914)
The Fable of The Adult Girl Who Got Busy (1914)
The Fable of the Manoeuvres of Joel and Father's Second Time on Earth (1914)
The Fable of the Busy Business Boy and the Droppers-in (1914)
The Fable of Napoleon and the Bumps (1914)
The Fable of the 'Good Fairy' (1914)
The Fable of the Coming Champion Who Was Delayed (1914)
The Fable of Higher Education That Was Too High for the Old Man (1914)
The Fable of the Brash Drummer and the Nectarine (1914)
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GenderMale
Birthday1866-02-09
Deathday1944-05-16 (78 years old)
Birth PlaceKentland, United States of America
CitizenshipsUnited States of America
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