| Show Several Snap Shots 1 Playwright I o of His o Characteristics m r l litI t 4 Revealing Many Interesting f itI t ii t t q I If f 44 f I 1 N tt hI i iy y I I V VI VI Vii I I I P I n r t V I 7 i ii L 1 i I t tI I e L Lt LI Lr LI r f t pf t I I r I d dI 1 L I i I i f Nr 1 I 1 I I LH 1 1 u CLYDE FITCH whose whole WILLIAM NIAM latest photograph h Is ducet In this Illustration I le undoubtedly Americas most moet success fur ful dramatist but he dose doel not resemble tho popular conception of a play Wright Ho He Ip neither c carelessly ceque In nor In do de dorM rM moaner Or boing at all limes Q a well wall pooled man of the ho World ed In the of the tho fashion Mr Filch Is II not yet o forty yun olds old oon kun IJ tj OtI JG I I JJ photograph from frem which the THE above Illustration was Wu was taken about th the time Mr Filch Fitch scored his first great theatrical hit with Beau a play which he wrote for Richard Mr wu was only when he produced this his hll Second play his hll first named amed Finish having attracted not a attention Mr FItch wrote both playa almost fresh from college He Was educated at atm atI m I HE camera has caught Mr Fitch I THE In a I characteristic pose poso In his hll splendidly furnished library Al AI Always ways artistic In taste tute and tempera temperament merit ment the popular playwright makes It Ita ita a point to surround himself with beautiful things He has hll been abro abroad ld a 11 great deal and on each trip spends much time hunting for unique and costly decorations for fer his hll New NeVI York home One of Mr Fitche special hob hobbles hobbies bles bies le II the collection of early eight eighteenth century theatrical boo books e eI I the fact that his hll health DESPITE D I Is at no time robust Mr Fitch Is almost every day to be found und It at athis his hll desk abandoning It only when his hll physician Insists upon his hll taking a 1 vacation lie He has been hart hard at al work all summer upon several leveral plays and the Illustration on shows him absorbed In the working out of a knotty point In the plot or of II a drama whIch It is II be belIeved will add dd not a I little to his fame It Is II said Id to deal with life Ilfe In high social circles ANY people are arc inclined to M think that since Mr Filch Fitch is 1 something of a dandy and quiet and unassuming In demeanor and speech hi his to 10 a rather negative nature but the reverse ii the case cale Those who have havo witnessed him conducting 1 a rehearsal of one of Ills hll plays will teSt tes that the dramatist Is 18 decidedly positive At rehearsals hie word I Ilaw is law and his hll productions are presented to the public exactly In Ie ac with hi his wishes I D t HERE are others who have pro pronounced THERE Mr Fitch careless in his work owing to hla prolificacy In Inthe Inthe the matter of plays but bitt It is II an open secret that many of at his recent suc were written In his salad days daye and were whipped Into shape a as the managers sent ont In ht orders While lit at his de k Mr Fitch is II energetic and tire lees leu working away with reckless regard of the tax on his strength his hll great aim being to produce artistic reU results It 11 a 1 N this illustration Mr Fitch Is Ie seen een IN resting after aften an exceedingly active campaign with his pen It is not that the placid expression of at his features is II caused by the tho thought that this season sealon a round dozen Fitch plays old and new will be pre by many companies nil 1111 over the tho United States and that the resultant royalties will of 01 amount to toa II a good sIzed fortune estimated by lomo some to be bein ln the neighborhood of ef J I I nr |
