Eureka Reporter | 1907-05-03 | Page 5 | Imitation Always Bad

imitation always bad clyde fitch in a kindly letter to a young and unknown playwright said I 1 liked your play I 1 thought it prom tsing taing but in the first act you imitated ibsen in the second you imitated PI nero and in the third and fourth you imitate barrie this will never do imitation in art is always bad it suggests the shabby man who as he sipped a AL glass of 0 beer looked in the mirror behind the bar and muttered to himself here I 1 am wearing a rail rall road president a shoes the trousers ot of a senator the hat of a millionaire banker the vest of a newport society leader and an ambassadors coat and yet in spite of all I 1 look like ike a tramp