Theatre, New York, September 4, 1905. It was successful and the contemporary criticism praised the delightful effect of the love episodes and the realism of the scene on the morning after the party. 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.
The following plays have been published: Nathan Hale (R. H. Russell, 1899), (rep. by W. H. Baker), * Barbara Frietchie (Life Pub. Co., 1900), * Captain Jinks of the Horse Marines (Doubleday, Page and Co., 1902), * The Climbers (1906), * The Girl with the Green Eyes (1905), * The Stubbornness of Geraldine (1906), * The Truth (1907), * Her Own Way (1907), by Macmillan, * Beau Brummel (John Lane, 1908). Those starred can be obtained in the Samuel French reprints, and all of them, together with Lovers' Lane, The Woman in the Case, and The City, have been republished in the Memorial Edition, edited by M. J. Moses and Virginia Gerson (Little, Brown and Co., 1915).
Her Great Match has never before been published. The present text is printed from manuscript furnished the editor through the courtesy of Mrs. Alice M. Fitch, Miss Virginia Gerson and Messrs. Ernst and Cane, to all of whom the editor is indebted for information concerning Mr. Fitch.
For a bibliography of Clyde Fitch see A Beading List of Clyde Fitch, by John A. Lowe, Bulletin of Bibliography, Vol. 7, p. 30, July, 1912. For biography and criticism see Archie Bell, The Clyde Fitch I Knew, New York, 1909; L. C. Strang, Players and Plays of the Last Quarter Century, Boston, 1902, Vol. 2, Chap. 6; Montrose J. Moses, The American Dramatist, Chap. 10; B. H. Clark, The British and American Drama of Today, New York, 1915; and among many articles, Martin Bernbaum, Clyde Fitch, an Appreciation, Independent, Vol. 67, pp.123-131; W. P. Eaton, The Dramatist as Man of Letters, Scribner's Magazine, Vol. 46, pp. 490-97; Ada Patterson, How a Rapid-Fire Dramatist Writes his Plays, Theatre, Vol. 7, pp. 14-16, January, 1907—practically a statement by Fitch himself of his methods; The American Stage Loses Clyde Fitch, Theatre, Vol. 10, p. 112, October, 1909; Archie Bell, The Real Clyde Fitch, Theatre, Vol. 10, pp. 158-160, November, 1909. For a criticism of Her Great Match, see The Theatre, Vol. 5, p. 243, October, 1905.
