Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 195, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 August 1913 — GEORGE ADE FEU ASLEEP IN BERLIN [ARTICLE]

GEORGE ADE FEU ASLEEP IN BERLIN

Author-farmer Gives Impressions of Night Life In the Gay German Capital.

A dispatch from Berlin under date of Aug. 10th is as follows: Berlin’s self-assurance that its night life is the merriest and gayest of -any city in Europe suffered a horrible jar this week when George Ade fell asleep in the midst of its ,whirlingest whirl. Mr. Ade and Roger Sullivan, the Democratic boss of Illinois, with former Mayor Hopkins of Chicago, arrived Monday from St. Petersburg. The humorist had telegraphed to the Hotel Adion for a room but on his arrival the manager Insisted on his occupying the imperial suite, which Mr. Ade obligingly took. The Indiana author said he wanted to see if Berlin’s night life was as gay and varicolored as it had been painted and declared he would take three days’ training so as to be able to sample It “I have been a farmer so long,” he said, “I usually go to sleep with the chickens. You say night life is orderly, so I’ll go to sleep an hour later every night for three nights. That will bring my limit to midnight.” Thursday night he declared he was ready to see the town. Here is his verdict. “It’s all very nice, but too slow, boys. It will take more ifian this to keep me awake.” About 1 a. m. in Berlin’s most famous “Palace of Sin,” as the big case is often called, Mr. Ade composed hinjaetf to sleep, murmuring: “I will give you boys, nay, impressions tomorrow.” Mr. Ade arrived in Berlin on Monday from Russia where he had made an extensive tour, visiting Moscow, Warsaw and St Petersburg. As traveling companions on the Russian trip Mr. Ade had Mr. Hopkins and Mr. Sullivan, who met him earlier in the summer in London. Mr. Ade spent the early part of the summer at the Aix-Les-Bains. The Russian trip was taken as an “after cure.” While here Mr. Ade met William H. Crane, who is spending a fortnight in Berlin with Mrs. Crane, after a stay of several weeks at Bad Kissengen, a resort patronized by a large number of American theatrical people this year.