| Show CLYDE FITCH AMERICAN PLAYWRIGHT DIES farne Sept 4 Clyde I Fitch American playwright tiled died at this evening lie Jle had been belen un since 3 2 oclo k In the after alter afternoon afternoon noon The Th doctors doctor and his hili friend Ku Eu J Eugene u gene wore were at the bedside Willi as duo to 10 appendicitis ap fol lot following lowing un an operation Mr Fitch was vas stricken With on an acute attack while traveling from Germany and upon ul on his hla hI arrival hero h he underwent An nn operation at the hands of Dr The pa pe patient patient tient tInt rallied after the tha op operation operation and yesterday showed M IllUme aume me signs of Improvement He JI suffered a art relapse lale rt last lut night however and al aI although although though h he was fully tull conscious during I the on 11 hours hour today the tho th Improve Improvement ment In his condition was not main maintained maintained After marked delirium ho lapsed Into unconsciousness s about I Z this afternoon at which time th thom attending physicians gave up hope ho hoof of his hI N Nw se w York Sept Sett Fitch easily LOUy the lh most prolific of younger American Amerl dramatist was wan born at Kl Ii mint N Y In 1816 11 of English h an ancestors ce who ho settled In Connecticut Conne I natty In the tho s century and I left descendants who have hav been ben prominent prominent I nent In the religious and political life of oC the country ever v tine Ha lie U early ON evinced an Interest In lit literature and was vea an actor Early in life lIe he began to write rite for forthe forthe the tho magazines magazin and published several plays In liSt IS 3 came his first play The Tho Wave ae of o followed by Some home Correspondence and Six Con Conversations JI and The Smart Set Nothing from Ms his pen rn found any prom prominence promInence prominence on the t boards the production production tion ion of Beau Brummel In 1890 1190 by b the late lIle Richard Mansfield The play 1 lay Jump Jumped ed Into Instant popularity and won with the years a a classic place In Amer repertoire Thereafter Th plays came two and some sometimes times three to the year with unflagging 1 regularity Among them the best besl known of I them then are ar Nathan Hale The Cow Cowboy Cowboy boy and tho the Lady Barbara Frietch le is Sapho front from th the French The Th Climbers The Girl and the Judge The Tho Last LaM of the tho Dandles Dandies The Girl with the Green Orlen Eyes Her Ber BerOn Own On Way Wa a Her liar Great Match ratch The nine mile Mouse Mou from the German and The Happy Marriage |
