{"id":1584,"date":"2018-08-28T14:35:37","date_gmt":"2018-08-28T21:35:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1584"},"modified":"2018-08-28T14:52:46","modified_gmt":"2018-08-28T21:52:46","slug":"lazarus-sidney-p-1888-1933","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1584","title":{"rendered":"LAZARUS, SIDNEY P., 1888-1933"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Biography:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Playwright, screenwriter, illustrator. Born&#8211; Shelbyville, Ky.; moved to Birmingham as a child. \u00a0Parents&#8211; Lew and Hannah Schwab Lazarus. Married&#8211; Maude Lazarus. Educated in Birmingham. Secretary and treasurer, Birmingham Mattress Company; moved to New York in 1919, and wrote stage plays; later moved to California, where he wrote screen plays, including Gabette, Come Along Mandy, and Dixie to Broadway. He and his wife committed suicide November 28, 1933.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Files at Birmingham Public Library.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Publication(s):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Why Can&#8217;t I Fly. New York; Scribner, 1949.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Illustrator;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Singing Cobbler. New York; Harper, 1939.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biography: Playwright, screenwriter, illustrator. Born&#8211; Shelbyville, Ky.; moved to Birmingham as a child. \u00a0Parents&#8211; Lew and Hannah Schwab Lazarus. Married&#8211; Maude Lazarus. Educated in Birmingham. Secretary and treasurer, Birmingham Mattress Company; moved to New York in 1919, and wrote stage plays; later moved to California, where he wrote screen plays, including Gabette, Come Along Mandy, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1584","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-authors","category-j-l"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1584","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1584"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1584\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8637,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1584\/revisions\/8637"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}