Arthur Sheekman
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Arthur Sheekman (February 5, 1901 – January 12, 1978) was an American theater critic, columnist, playwright, and editor, but he was best known for his screen writing.
Light comedy was his forte.
"The Fastest Wit in the West," Groucho Marx called him.
Early life (1901–1926)
Arthur Sheekman was born in Chicago, Illinois, on February 5, 1901. His parents, Nettie Green Sheekman and Charles Grover Sheekman, were Jewish immigrants from Rostov-on-Don, Russia. Sheekman was the middle child of three children from Edith (who became a tutor) and Harvey (an engineer). The family lived in St. Paul, Minnesota, where their father owned a bar in Sheekman's youth. The children had to scramble to help their family as Charlie Sheekman wasn't much of a provider. Sheekman started his first job at twelve, after school and on weekends at the St. Paul Public Library stacking books. He served at the library before beginning to work as a cub reporter on the St. Paul Daily News, according to a letter from Librarian William Dawson Johnston to the Daily News City Editor. Sheekman began to work as the paper's theater and film critic, as well as his column "The Voice Off-Stage." Sheekman, aspired to go to college, was accepted at the University of Minnesota but discovered he was unable to control both his work and his course work, and had to leave.
Sheekman is thought to have been filling in for a colleague's place on a journalist's trip to the Sesquicentennial International Exposition in Philadelphia in 1926. The guide was pointing out a recreation of Betsy Ross' flag...a recreation of William Penn's flag...a recreation of—askman asked, "Do you have a recreation of a men's room?" When the editor of the Chicago Journal stopped laughing, he gave Sheekman three times the same salary he was getting at the Daily News. That was how Sheekman returned to Chicago from his native Chicago.
Sheekman's column, "Short Shot and Close Up," on the Chicago Journal, continued to write about the movies and Hollywood. He was given the coveted column "A Little About Everything," a column previously occupied by humorists Bert Leston Taylor, Finley Peter Dunne, and Franklin P. Adams. Florenz Ziegfeld is quoted as wiring from New York, "Please send me back to numbers of the Chicago Daily Journal containing Arthur Sheekman's column, which I find greatly amusing." "I like his column because he is a cynic without scorn" and a wit without malice," a leading Chicago retailer noted. Sheekman's column "Ahead of the Times" in Chicago was a "A Daily Potpourri of Wit and Verse." "The book Is Perfect Forever" by a writer.