Excerpt from Plays by Clyde Fitch, Vol. 2 of 4: Barbara Frietchie; Captain Jinks of the Horse Marines; The Climbers
IN Barbara Frietchie and Captain Jinks of the Horse Marines, Mr. Fitch continued the picturesque historical vein, so successfully begun in Beau Brummell, Frédéric Lemaitre, His Grace de Grammont and Nathan Hale. His love of a period was not an artificial taste with him; he had the inestimable ability of absorbing atmosphere, and of giving to his detail little intimate touches which resulted in realism amidst romantic action. And even though there is such wide contrast between the first two plays in this volume and The Climbers, one can easily detect in Captain Jinks, for example, characteristic flashes fore shadowing the satirist of the later social plays.
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