| 翻訳と辞書 |
| Arthur Sheekman ： ウィキペディア英語版 |
Arthur Sheekman
Arthur Sheekman (February 5, 1901 – January 12, 1978) was an American theater and movie critic, columnist, playwright and editor—but best known for his writing for the screen. His specialty was light comedy. Groucho Marx called him "The Fastest Wit in the West."
==Early life (1901-1926)==
Arthur Sheekman was born February 5, 1901 in Chicago, Illinois.〔ancestry.com. Fifth Decennial Census of Minnesota Population Schedule. Ramsey county, St. Paul, Ward 8, Precinct 11, sheet no. 23, line 68. 1905. Accessed September 5, 2014.〕 His parents, Nettie Green Sheekman and Charles Grover Sheekman were Jewish immigrants from Russia. Sheekman was the middle child of three, coming between Edith (who became a teacher) and Harvey (an engineer). In Sheekman's early years, the family lived in St. Paul, Minnesota, where their father owned a bar and kept a mistress. As Charlie Sheekman wasn't much of a provider, the children had to scramble to help support their family. At twelve, Sheekman got his first job, working after school and on weekends at the St. Paul Public Library stacking books. He worked at the library until he got a job as a cub reporter on the ''St. Paul Daily News''—a letter of recommendation from Librarian William Dawson Johnston to the ''Daily News'' City Editor gave him the entrée.〔Clipping. Light, Paul. "So What!" ''St. Paul Pioneer Press'', January 28, 1945.〕 Sheekman rose to became the paper's theater and movie critic, writing his column, "The Voice Off-Stage".〔''Who's Who in America''. A.N. Marquis Co., November 1, 1941.〕 Wanting to go to college, Sheekman enrolled at the University of Minnesota but found he could not manage both his job and his course work and had to withdraw.〔''Who's Who in America, 1941'', states Sheekman was a student at the University of Minnesota, suggesting more than a few months; the source also states erroneously that Sheekman attended law school.〕
In 1926, while perhaps apocryphal, the story goes that Sheekman was filling a colleague's place on a journalists' junket to the Sesquicentennial International Exposition in Philadelphia. On a sight-seeing tour with fellow newspapermen, the guide was pointing out a replica of the Liberty Bell...a replica of Betsy Ross's flag...a replica of the elm tree where William Penn stood...a replica of—when Sheekman interrupted, "Say, could you show us a replica of a men's room?" When the editor of the ''Chicago Journal'' stopped laughing, he offered Sheekman three times the salary he was getting at the ''Daily News''.〔 That was how Sheekman got back to his native Chicago.
On the ''Chicago Journal'', Sheekman continued writing about the movies and Hollywood in his column, "Short Shot and Close-Up". Then he was awarded the noteworthy space, "A Little About Everything," a column previously occupied by humorists Bert Leston Taylor, Finley Peter Dunne and Franklin P. Adams. In a ''Journal'' handout promoting the column, Florenz Ziegfeld is quoted as wiring from New York, "Please send me back numbers of ''Chicago Daily Journal'' containing Arthur Sheekman's column, which I find vastly entertaining." "A leading merchant of Chicago...remarked, "I like his column because he is a cynic without scorn, and a wit without malice."〔"Little About Everything". ''Chicago Daily Journal'', no date.〕 Finally, Sheekman moved to Chicago's ''Daily Times'' where his column "Ahead of the Times" was a "A Daily Potpourri of Wit and Verse.".〔Ad, ''Daily Times'', May 27, 1930.〕
抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』
■ウィキペディアで「Arthur Sheekman」の詳細全文を読む
スポンサード リンク
| 翻訳と辞書 : 翻訳のためのインターネットリソース |
Copyright(C) kotoba.ne.jp 1997-2016. All Rights Reserved.
|
|