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__NOTOC__ Harry C. Carr (1877–1936), whose byline for most of his career was Harry Carr, was an American reporter, editor and columnist for the ''Los Angeles Times.'' In 1934 he was given an honorable mention by a Pulitzer Prize committee on awards. When a heart attack claimed his life at the age of fifty-eight, his funeral was attended by more than a thousand people. ==Professional life== Carr's first newspaper job was in 1897 when he was hired by the ''Los Angeles Herald'' on the recommendation of business manager Fred Alles to do "unusual little stories, funny or with heart interest.".〔("Writer's First Employer Recalls Career's Start," ''Los Angeles Times,'' January 11, 1936, page 2 )〕 As a young reporter on the hunt for a story, Carr was ejected from a Los Angeles theater when, uninvited, he tried to watch the rehearsal of a play. The resourceful Carr, however, spied on the troupe through an alley window, wrote a story about it and it was printed. Subsequent stories brought Carr's talent to the attention of Harry Andrews, then managing editor of the ''Times,'' so he sent for Carr and gave him a job.〔〔 Carr's reputation soared with his eyewitness coverage of the San Francisco earthquake and fire of 1906. He was the first outside reporter to make his way to the shattered city and his efforts resulted in "four or five full newspaper pages of print, the longest story I ever saw in a paper," said John Von Blon, an assistant city editor at the time. "I locked Harry in a room in the morning, brought him his luncheon and dinner and kept him right at it." 〔("Quake 'Beat' Won Glory," ''Los Angeles Times,'' January 11, 1936, page 3 )〕 His coverage, reporting and writing was "one of the greatest stories of modern times, one that is still regarded by newspapermen all over the world as a model for the chronicling of some tremendous and awful event," a colleague, Julian Johnson, recalled thirty years later.〔("Carr News Beat Gets New Praise," ''Los Angeles Times,'' January 12, 1936 )〕〔(The story, with photographs Carr took himself, can be seen here. )〕 Carr was later assigned to the sports department, where he became editor around 1912 and wrote a column, "Through the Carr Window." "He was particularly interested in boxing and covered many championship fights . . . . He was one of the first writers to hail Jack Dempsey as a coming champion."〔("Sport One of Major Interests," ''Los Angeles Times,'' January 11, 1936, page 2 )〕 Shortly after, Carr was assigned as ''Times'' correspondent in Washington, D.C., and in 1915 he was in Europe, covering World War I from Berlin and elsewhere. In 1916 he returned briefly to Los Angeles, then headed back to Washington. Columns he filed from there were often headed "Checkerboard" or "Grouchy Remarks."〔 He also covered the Mexican revolution (1910–1920).〔("Harry Carr," ''New York Times,'' January 11, 1936 ) ''Access to this link may require a subscription.''〕 In 1920, he turned to criticism of the stage and screen. Directors like D.W. Griffith, Cecil B. DeMille, Mack Sennett, Jesse Lasky and Erich von Stroheim called on him to help humanize their films; he became a "story editor-at-large." He went to New York for a time, but "hastened back to his beloved California."〔 Carr was editorial page editor in 1922.〔("The Lee Side o' L.A.," ''Los Angeles Times,'' January 13, 1936, page A-4 )〕 His column, "The Lancer," began on November 18, 1924, and appeared almost daily thereafter.〔 In 1932 he was called back to the sports department to edit the special sections covering the 1932 Olympic Games in Los Angeles, and Harry Carr was back in the sports saddle for sixteen glorious, hectic, fantastic days and nights. He was . . . an impresario sitting in the old office of The Times, amid mounds of waste paper and mountains of pictures, making drama out of barelegged boys and girls from all over the world leaping and running in the Coliseum. . . . His staff was not big enough to keep up with him. . . . He loved sports more than anything else.〔("Olympic Games Gave Writer Thrill of Life," ''Los Angeles Times,'' January 11, 1936, page 3 )〕 Between March 1933 and January 1934, Carr made an around-the-world trip and reported on "the bloody retreat of the Chinese before the Japanese invaders" and likened Japanese-occupied Korea "to a perpetual comic opera on a blood-stained stage, with lovely little girls — and lepers — making up the cast." He told of "Hitler's psychology and dreams of conquest, . . . of the possibility of another European conflagration breaking out in Czecho-Slovakia's capital, of the gaudy but not too impressive show being presented in Italy, and of a precarious ring of steel which France maintains about Germany. . . . Carr saw ghost ships in the harbor of Manila, and wrote of them; found the women of Bali going about without shirts and had a beetle fight staged for him."〔("Carr Honored for His Writings," ''Los Angeles Times,'' May 8, 1934, page 2 )〕 For these stories and others written on his trip, Carr was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize by James M. Cain, novelist and Burbank, California, screenwriter. Carr was given an honorable mention in 1934 by the Pulitzer committee on awards for distinguished service as a foreign or Washington correspondent.〔 Of the profession of journalism, Carr wrote in 1931: Journalism isn't a business. It is a consecration. There is no money in the job but there is everything else. Of all careers I think it is the most soul-satisfying. When I come around this way in my next incarnation a thousand years from now I am not going to lose as much time as in this whirl of life. I waited until I was 19 in this life; in the next I am going to crawl out of the cradle and demand that the nurse take me to the nearest city editor.〔("The Lancer," ''Los Angeles Times,'' March 27, 1931, page A-1 )〕 He wrote his last column in his Tujunga home before he left for the hospital on the day he died, and it was published the next day.〔("Death Calls Harry Carr of 'Times,'" ''Los Angeles Times,'' January 11, 1936, page 1 )〕 In it, he referred to the recent deaths of Thelma Todd, John Gilbert and "Quien Sabe?" (who knows?). "Death cuts down the famous by threes in Hollywood," he wrote.〔("The Lancer," ''Los Angeles Times,'' January 11, 1936, page A-1 )〕 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「Harry Carr」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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