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Clyde Fitch
Birth: May 2, 1865
Death: Sep. 4, 1909
American dramatist. Born William Clyde Fitch at Elmira, New York, he would write over 60 plays, 36 of them original, which varied from social comedies and farces to melodrama and historical dramas. An the only child to live to adulthood, his father, Captain William G. Fitch, a graduate of West Point and a Union officer in the Civil War, encouraged him to become an architect or to engage in a career of business, but his mother, Alice Clark, in whose eyes he could do no wrong, always believed in his talent. It was she that would hire the architectural firm of Hunt & Hunt to design the sarcophagus set inside an open Tuscan temple for his final resting place. He was the first American playwright to publish his plays. His first work of note was Beau Brummell (1890) a major work set in the Regency-era, which became a showcase for actor Richard Mansfield (1854-1907), who would play the title role for the rest of his life. His 1892 play Masked Ball would be the first time that Charles Frohman put Maude Adams opposite John Drew which led to many future successes. In 1900 Captain Jinks of the Horse Marines, made a star of Ethel Barrymore. He is remembered particularly for Nathan Hale (1898), The Climbers (1901), The Girl with the Green Eyes (1902), The Truth (1907) and The City (1909). His works were popular on both sides of the Atlantic. His play based on the heroine of 's poem Barbara Fritchie met with mixed in 1899 because of the romance he added to the tale, but it would be successfully revived a number of times. In 1896 he wrote the lyrics to a popular song "Love Makes The World Go 'Round" with the arrangement by William Furst. His career spanned a brief two decades, but he earned upwards of $250,000 from his plays at a time when a dollar a day was the working wage. He directed a few of his plays and was closely involved in the production of them all. Working with Edith Wharton he wrote and directed the state adaptation of The House of Mirth in 1906. He was the first American playwright to be taken seriously and at one time managed to have 5 plays running simultaneously on Broadway. A generous host with an engaging personality he was renowned as a raconteur. His invitations in Greenwich, Connecticut at "Quiet Corner" were sought after. A close friend of Elsie de Wolfe, she would help him find many of the furnishings for this house as well as others. At one point she said "he knows more about women, than most women know about themselves." A dandy by his early teens, he knew that in school he was seen as a sissy, but he said, "I would rather be misunderstood than lose my independence." Correspondence of the time point to a likely relationship, however brief, with Oscar Wilde. He suffered from attacks of appendicitis, but refused his American doctor's recomendation of surgery, instead trusting the specialists in Europe who assured him that they could effect a cure over time without surgery. While staying at the Hotel de la Haute Mère de Dieu at Châlons, France, he suffered what would be a fatal attack. He underwent surgery by a local doctor, rather than travel to Paris and died from blood poisoning. His body was returned from France where it was entombed for a time in the Swan Callendar Mausoleum which belonged to a friend. In 1910 the body was removed and taken to New Jersey for cremation and the ashes were returned to the Swan Callendar Mausoleum until the Hunt & Hunt monument was finished. His ashes were then place in the sarcophagus where his parents ashes would later join his own. (bio by: D C McJonathan-Swarm)
Burial: Woodlawn Cemetery
Bronx
Bronx County
New York, USA
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Birth: May 2, 1865
Death: Sep. 4, 1909
American dramatist. Born William Clyde Fitch at Elmira, New York, he would write over 60 plays, 36 of them original, which varied from social comedies and farces to melodrama and historical dramas. An the only child to live to adulthood, his father, Captain William G. Fitch, a graduate of West Point and a Union officer in the Civil War, encouraged him to become an architect or to engage in a career of business, but his mother, Alice Clark, in whose eyes he could do no wrong, always believed in his talent. It was she that would hire the architectural firm of Hunt & Hunt to design the sarcophagus set inside an open Tuscan temple for his final resting place. He was the first American playwright to publish his plays. His first work of note was Beau Brummell (1890) a major work set in the Regency-era, which became a showcase for actor Richard Mansfield (1854-1907), who would play the title role for the rest of his life. His 1892 play Masked Ball would be the first time that Charles Frohman put Maude Adams opposite John Drew which led to many future successes. In 1900 Captain Jinks of the Horse Marines, made a star of Ethel Barrymore. He is remembered particularly for Nathan Hale (1898), The Climbers (1901), The Girl with the Green Eyes (1902), The Truth (1907) and The City (1909). His works were popular on both sides of the Atlantic. His play based on the heroine of 's poem Barbara Fritchie met with mixed in 1899 because of the romance he added to the tale, but it would be successfully revived a number of times. In 1896 he wrote the lyrics to a popular song "Love Makes The World Go 'Round" with the arrangement by William Furst. His career spanned a brief two decades, but he earned upwards of $250,000 from his plays at a time when a dollar a day was the working wage. He directed a few of his plays and was closely involved in the production of them all. Working with Edith Wharton he wrote and directed the state adaptation of The House of Mirth in 1906. He was the first American playwright to be taken seriously and at one time managed to have 5 plays running simultaneously on Broadway. A generous host with an engaging personality he was renowned as a raconteur. His invitations in Greenwich, Connecticut at "Quiet Corner" were sought after. A close friend of Elsie de Wolfe, she would help him find many of the furnishings for this house as well as others. At one point she said "he knows more about women, than most women know about themselves." A dandy by his early teens, he knew that in school he was seen as a sissy, but he said, "I would rather be misunderstood than lose my independence." Correspondence of the time point to a likely relationship, however brief, with Oscar Wilde. He suffered from attacks of appendicitis, but refused his American doctor's recomendation of surgery, instead trusting the specialists in Europe who assured him that they could effect a cure over time without surgery. While staying at the Hotel de la Haute Mère de Dieu at Châlons, France, he suffered what would be a fatal attack. He underwent surgery by a local doctor, rather than travel to Paris and died from blood poisoning. His body was returned from France where it was entombed for a time in the Swan Callendar Mausoleum which belonged to a friend. In 1910 the body was removed and taken to New Jersey for cremation and the ashes were returned to the Swan Callendar Mausoleum until the Hunt & Hunt monument was finished. His ashes were then place in the sarcophagus where his parents ashes would later join his own. (bio by: D C McJonathan-Swarm)
Burial: Woodlawn Cemetery
Bronx
Bronx County
New York, USA
Text from: www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=1364
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