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...body" as John Mason Brown described it--people on the outside began to take notice of the productions. Even before the Workshop began Edward Sheldon's play, Salvation Neil, written while Sheldon was still an undergraduate in Baker's course, was discovered by the great American actress Mrs. Minnie Maddern Fiske and with her interpretation enjoyed a considerable run on Broadway. Soon after, with the founding of the HDC and its presentation of several plays written for Baker's courses, a number of Boston producers became seriously interested in the plays being created at Harvard. With the founding...
Died. Hobart Van Zandt Bosworth, 76, pioneer cinemactor; in Glendale, Calif. Born in Marietta, Ohio, Bosworth ran off to sea at twelve, at 19 joined a stock company, soon rose to leading parts with Minnie Maddern Fiske and Julia Marlowe. Pronounced fatally tuberculous, seven years later he earned $125 for two days' work as the star of the first movie made on the Pacific Coast: a one-reeler, The Sultan's Power (1909). Three of his 500-odd subsequent films: The Big Parade, Woman of Affairs, The Miracle...
Died. Frank Gillmore, 75, theatrical favorite from the '80s through the 1900s, co-founder and longtime president of Actors Equity Association; in Manhattan. He was leading man to Minnie Maddern Fiske, Henrietta Crosman, Alia Nazimova, was the father of Actress Margalo Gillmore...
...class the owners frowned: stage folk. A few exceptions: Ellen Terry, Minnie Maddern Fiske, Henry Miller. Actors and actresses were apt to be a bit too gay. The Murray Hill stood for leisurely good living; whatever high jinks went on behind its walls were perhaps elaborate, but certainly decorous...
...first man to produce Ibsen's plays in the U.S., fought the Klaw & Erlanger "Theatrical Trust" which controlled nearly every U.S. theater in the '90s. Once Fiske trouped through Texas "under canvas"-because the trust refused him their theaters. He married the late, great Actress Minnie Maddern in 1890, became her manager, starred her in Ghosts, A Doll's House, Tess of the D'Urbervilles, finally helped break the monopoly. His most popular success: Kismet, starring Otis Skinner. A critic once wrote: "Fiske in the '90s was probably the only manager in the American theater...