Clyde Fitch

“ It is significant that in this international contrast, Fitch has endowed his American characters with a proper sense of social values without laying stress upon the matter at all, and that "Jo Sheldon"meets the Prince upon the human footing of a man and a girl charmingly in love with one another. ”

“ This social consciousness had been in his work from the first, but Beau Brummel is not so significant since it reflected the manners of an earlier day in England, and was a play of types rather than real people. What is of the most significance, Fitch did not limit himself to social satire; his greatest plays have in them a central idea, which unifies the drama and gives it body. In The Stubbornness of Geraldine, played after a tryout in New Haven, at the Garrick Theatre, New York, November 3, 1902, by Mary Mannering,—the theme is the fidelity and trust of a woman for the man she loves. ”

“ In The Truth, tried out in Cleveland, Ohio, in October, 1906, and later played in New York with Clara Bloodgood as "Becky" and in London in 1907 with Marie Tempest in the same part, there is a masterly study of the effects of lying on the part of a woman who is not inherently bad but who is incapable of resisting the temptation of the moment to prevaricate. In The City, produced after his death, on December 21, 1909, at the Lyric Theatre, New York City, there is a study of the effect upon people coming to the city from a small town where they have been the principal family for many years. ”