Show I CLYDE PITCH PLAYWRIGHT Ii Fertile in Invention lae c ratio n But Lacking Depth Richard Duffy fluffy in s Clyde CIde unprecedented record of four plays running in New York simultaneously may very possibly be t I excelled by this supremely popular playwright himself during the coming I I season searon He has written The Marriage Game in which Sadie Martinet Martinot will nl star The Way Vay of the World for Elsie Esle de Wolfe The Last of the Dan Dandies Dandies Dandies dies and a new play for Annie Rua Rus Russell sell If It he continues at this pace there will be the risk that he will be judged almost entirely by the standard of productivity Until now not none of his bis plays has revealed traces of work too hurriedly They all are fertile In Invention and smart in dialogue The characters especially the women are boldly drawn the th situations are de do devised devised with superb craft the scenes placed in surroundings that surprise and please the eye yet In all the plays plas there is to be observed a certain In solidity in the groundwork When you yo consider them studiously you see that this playwright has wit imagination insight and sensibility but not depth His active ingenious mind sports on the surface waters of the soul A thoughtful man one that has lived and tried to understand will be amused for fora a time by b the fluent flippancy of or a Fitch comedy The earnest side of the play will hardly convince him But there are thousands of men and women in this great country that are convinced by the story The reason rea reason reason son of It may be that they lead stage staW lives themselves Family religion so social social social cial life all are adjusted to help and not hinder the worship of the ideal which is succeed in a career have money and If you can have distinction distinction distinction tion The whole aim and effort of tho the life of such a person in the last analysis sis resolve themselves into this I want to be looked up to No matter what happens i pr gr r where I am I want people to feel that I am what I am The humor of it ft is that such people never are what they think they are Of characters of this type there are twenty to one man in our civilization civilization Some optimist here has said with pride and swelling of the bosom In France a wife is a with her husband in England the husband is a king and antI the wife a subject in America the wife is a queen Now Nom the most pathetic mortal in the world is a certain type of American husband His wife wiCe may be a qu queen quen en but as there theres is s only so much money to support her hercourt hercourt hercourt court retinue and kitchen and the husband whether he be a financier or ora ora ora a bank clerk has to slave in order to get that money mone he begins to remind one of a squirrel in a cage with a wheel attached The squirrel Is locked In to be sure but if he feels a longing to climb trees as the best people of his family have always done why theres the wheel It goes round and round and the sensation is positively as g and interesting es s any that can be felt in climbing a tree The American husband likes to work and a d the American woman makes of him a galley slave But he be is the hap happiest I man in the world He will tell you qu so himself and out of an honest heart Yet that alter the real state of matters and it dither anther adds to the dramatic possibilities p s r of oJ this suggestion suggestion e tion I that t tp a striking modern comedy might be written around the American wife wICe of this type Naturally they the are not all like the one just described The admirable American wife could be shown as a foil to tl the one that is well not admirable If Clyde Fitch ever finds himself with a cash order for fora a play and without an Idea for one this is a subject that lies just in his field There does not seem to be any strong probability that Mr Ir Fitch will run dry on Ideas He struggled so long before the first ray ra of prosperity I showed itself to him that he must have havee stored a fund of material The early years of his career in New York were far from cheerful He was never nev r in actual need but to the young oung man that has just enough to live decently the failure to get under way along any avenue to is Iii disheartening Mr Fitch thought once of being an architect at another time he was sore sorely sorely sorely ly tempted to try a reporters life liCe Finally he sought entrance at the stage door as a t playwright He directed his efforts In the most moat difficult line Une of the three and his success must mu t long lon ago have dulled recollection of or his begin beginnings beginnings I |