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Show j 'a 1 CLYDE FITCH TWISTS HISTORY. B ' H I Clyde Fitch has given us a Major Andre of his B' d j- f m I own. One of the critics remarked, after seeing mW I;l ii'S ne performance, that Fitch was fortunate in not iB nl1 I being hampered by history, and this is really the H, Jill jl keynote of the play. There probably never was a B ' i 1 it performance in which history and the drama Hl j ') l 1 were more at swords' points. iBffl ' ffl ' ji e" n e ent' Fc1 aas not succeeded in lBl' i ffl i turning Andre into such a hero as Americans iBK 'Il ( I ii could love. In the minor details, too, the author iBl" v i ' K ias een reckless Avith the facts, The principal Hf I j I! I I scene is laid in the old Kip mansion, where Andre Br "i ''1 I Iiad ljeen (luartereil and where he took his last Bt ,l i dinner before leaving New YorL for his death. Hi p 1 j One of the few historical landmarks left in Hu, ill New York is the old Kip's Bay, which is at Bt L' ' 1 i Thirty-eighth street and the East River, and the BBB Li 1 i Kip mansion from which it took its name was lo- K, 1 cated some hundred feot from the shore at that Bf ' point. Yet Fitch calmly places it at Thirty- Hii 1MB fourth street and Second avenuet nearly half a Bl'l I lm mil away" |