| Show CLYDE FITCH AT HIS HOME Takes His Hs Work Vork Not Himel Aversion to Books Boo k To Stage Sta I T ww IU a lazy Iu afternoon except for forI IT I those moments when the auto nulo hit hll the high places Mr Ir Fitch was In a I suit sull and ami a mood to match says say the thc New e York Evening World H He sat Mt at In front with wih a I young OUI man mall who had sunburned hair an KI Impressive silence and a strong Alron grip on ni the time situation Oc Occasionally Occasionally Mr Ir Fitch would squeeze a gentle Gente squawk out of the horn borim hor that thai rested reste In iti his hil lap lP and thou then thel that ques question queston question tion which has como crying down the i ton Why does 1005 n a chicken cross cros the tho Ihl street would be answered by b a 1 pullet or a We seeing Greenwich and we left the dry old uld drama far behind In tl inthe the thc dust tr Once alre and only once I J asked Mr Ir Fitch what whal ho had bad ad been doing doln for forthe forthe forthe the drama during the good food old summer summertime summertime time lime Dont Dolt please dont donI ho Implored Dont worm It II out ou t of me ml Ive le not for forgotten forgotten gotten goten the last time you wormed my new play lilaY out of me mc And do you ou re remember reo remember member embr what hat happened to that play pla It I was Wi a horrible failure The auto shuddered and plunged mad madly ly J 1 down a C I steep steel hill bill hii This Is ts i time the hill bill hi said the apprehensive dye sive Fitch down don which Israel Irael Put Putnam nam nanh made malle his famous Tide ride And nd now nol the electric car Is beating hid lits hil record Y Yu Yes s If it I he had waited a 1 f few w years he might have taken a 1 car This feeble attempt at al humor quite exhausted both of us and ad he hardly spoke poke again until the thc Fitch country house houie loomed lom up high and white on A Agreen d agreen green grren hill The automobile took th the bit In Its II hi teeth and made for home like a hungry horse hore Presently white fig 0 figurea urea url gleamed out of the green gew and with a n last a t turn tur and lurch the motor motorcar I ear car brought brou hl us alongside an Italian garden This Italian IRlan garden In Connecticut is II tho Iho funniest 1 thing Clyde Filch FItch Fic has his ever ter done Sot Not ot that thai It I was funny In IU Isel Itself lf but that It I seemed funny funn In Connecticut not lot ono no of ot those thoe unblushing statues with lh even a Connecticut wrapper Ono One 01 of these thele days das Mr Ir Fitch tUch may mA write ou en 01 The Conversation of or Connecticut Th Tild j neighbors nell are arc marching on en Oi In fact fArl getting a bit too to close to suit au II Mr Ir Fitch When I built hul here I was IU away na out In the country he said patti Fall But Green Greenwich has h grown until Im Im omil ya a su suburbanite suburbanite I want ant to sell the place and Ind build another house MUl near nar the Ihl Hudson where I have IRve several acres lIerl of real country countr And would you 01 sell lel the marbles mR Some of them perhaps One of those these days dlA I may go horribly broke and be obliged to sell 11 all of knows I spend every cent I earn Ian for the things I J like But I am an al careful to 10 buy hu things that ikI have haI a real peat ral value and If I I should be b driven Into having a sale but bUI conic come We Ve went Into the garden Ir Mauls Maude a terraced l portion of ot I It with chairs enough for a house port party and cushions cushion enough for a R college coll 1 play pia It IU murmured Mr Ir Fitch sighing Into Inlo the scenery Ive 10 named It The Quiet Corner U It was 00 o 0 altogether lher restful that I J Iwonder Jan wonder an I r why wh an American author should go 0 abroad to tn write wrt an n American play But I dont go ro abroad to write crite pro protested protested tested II tf Mr Ir Fitch Fich I 1 go IO for rest rt I for or any Rn other ether kind of or rest you ou know kI to have a i L mutual housecleaning to open the win windows dows and nd l let IEl t In the air Absolute rest rests T t is s Impossible where one can In b be re chwat at any In time of the day dR or night by telegraph telephone train or motor ear car carTh earThe Th The cant get at lt me mr on en the tho theother h hother other skis to ask about a tack tark In the Ihl f scenery Dolly Dl Doil Jon Jones s cant swoop down dOIn upon me wIth wih her hackers backers to tell tel me mp worthy of her transcendent talents Of coune I J am always 1111 ready with 11 my m that I t and an only on I 1 can rAn write a play pIR stereotyped excuse that Im Im In work ork If I she Sl happens happen to be b b a fairly good oad actress Im only on I six pix weeks behind In my may 1 work If I a had bad actress Im always six years orA behind The artful Fitch Fich smiled the time smite smile limie o othe of at the cheerful liar I Getting away awa tropic from frol It U nit all ni tak s me ins out of the Ih rut ril he hI went vent on Oi It l I I brightens me up and when Im 11 ready red for or nork theres nothing to 10 distract me me I J go so right might ahead ahod and finish mi icy I I play pla without tho the bother of Interruption I Ilon Lion tion I lon And you ou dont dOlt find yourself getting away ln from your our play pia In a foreign at atmosphere 7 Not ot at al nil all 11 I 1 can work as well wl In Munich as ni here herE Wherever I 1 am I Ibur bury bur myself 1 in tn my play I wallow li In InI It I U It I becomes a 1 and ni 11 1 I breath through a little Ille hole in the top lOp topI lOpI I go 10 to Munich because I 1 love loe lo it I and anit I Ire come re back refreshed enthusiastic am and eager for or work 1 l had vowed I J would never neer adapt adap another book bok he said aal hut but Mrs Irl Wharton Is I an al old friend and Ind I J refuse her tier I have not hot drain her story Ive Ie simply done don m I my host best to put It I Into play ilay Ia form Man Ian Mana Many Manya a good lood book has he been dramatized to death The people who have read red time the book bk say la aft Heavens what a 1 play pIa The Tha Th people who ho exclaim My M Go God GI l what a hook book bok The play pil pitt falls fails tho the book bookIs Is II ruined The Tho book may have hae three thre Interesting men ln who are good enough ns liS men mon go But nut the adapter sat satisfied 11 satisfied He le hauls them thel out of their very ery ry decent life ilfe le In the pa pages ea and turns them theta Into an villain Tho ho wo women women men amen In the book bk fare little Itle better They The Theare are arc changed to suit the taste of ot tho the ambitious young oun woman who ho Is to be starred In the play To feed fl tier her speeches are taken out CUt of the mouths of other characters and Ild IldR again R the poor or book bk suffers Bufer Ive 11 b ben been very ery nr careful not to Injure Mrs Ir Whar What tons tona was the tho least I 1 could do for cit a I friend As A a J result of my work on The Time House of o Mirth my morning mail mal stacks up ul ten feet high hll li with My bly t latest Book and In e every ery Instance I stand between h It II slid and fame not nol to mention an nn enormous fortun fort un hut But I 1 prefer Nefer to find fn my I own theme thence Among Amon other things the tho theater Thala Just JUPt hat hiI I 1 said paid to Archer Arher In InIx II Ix time the other day dl He lie le agreed with me mp Splendid rh chap p Archer FIrst of ot otal all al we 1 must remember that tha the theater Is III a 1 place of entertainment A writer criter for the stage tagI should take tuko his hil work but bUI not himself seriously I The moment ho takes himself seriously the moment ho he 10 his lila sense pense of at humor ho be become le come an ble bore bor today have hae a R well developed sense seme of humor humo one thing we have to ba La thankful for It U ties has hll brought brough about a Mewed blessed change in the the theater th by b rid ridding ridding ding us u of the sweetly Sot sentimental play with Its wooden hero and nd Us its 1 goody good 11 goody l od heroine Playgoers nowadays are arc willing to accept characters who Iro have their faults fault who ho like ilke themselves are only human And An now nw the he charac characters characters hare al make the plot vlot Instead of the plot 1101 making the time characters character At Al any Rn rate rte the way wa a I play IIa should hould be b de dc decoI dee ed coI We e were growing altogether too to ser see serious cr ious inus loul for a summer afternoon and III Mr Ir Fitch proposed coffee and amid ald cakes Then Fich he a n WAlk In the garden and Ill his hil two to dogs Joined us with Jumping enthusiasm While Ian was Jumping over ocr the hedge after a 1 green apple aple that could rould do him no I good Jo Ills II master told tol n a n dog d story I lOr that that a 1 press agent might have envied When Wh 1 I went nt abroad brod he be replied I 1 Il IC l left fI Clan lan IAn with lh the th he soldiers soldier on Gover Governors Governors I Ir nors C r Island It I afterward occurred to tome tome i imf me mf that Ihal 1 I had forgotten to cm tell them the dT dogs name When I went for th thi dog d and asked Rk how hn they managed to 10 I call him without knowing hi hil tile name ml one OM cAl of or them saM said Oh that thaI was II all allright al allright I right we e called raUM him Fitch Clan who ho had hil returned from the chase hu hudroN dropped droN his hil apple to tn laugh lauh at the Joke |
