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Ladies and Gentlemen (by Charles MacArthur and Ben Hecht, from a play by Ladislaus Bush-Fekete; produced by Gilbert Miller). Decade ago the late Minnie Maddern Fiske huffed, barked, flounced her way through a typical virtuoso's vehicle, Ladies of the Jury. Hungarian Ladislaus Bush-Fekete (né Bus-Fekete: the "h" was his idea of Americanizing the name) made a play with the same situation-a resourceful woman swinging the rest of a jury around from a verdict of guilty to acquittal in a murder case...
Wasn't it Mrs. Leslie Carter (now trying a Hollywood comeback) rather than Mrs. Minnie Maddern Fiske (deceased) who "transposed the scene from Britain's Civil War to that of the U. S., and swung to theatrical fame on the clapper of a cardboard bell"? . . . Does TIME deliberately make such errors to discover how many readers will detect them...
...Mule. Literature particularly attracted the Professor. He made illustrations for such things as Evangeline, Hiawatha, The Courtship of Miles Standish, Elegy in a Country Churchyard (32 pictures in this set), Othello, The Wreck of the Hesperus. One of his favorites was Curfew Must Not Ring Tonight! Long before Minnie Maddern Fiske transposed the scene from Britain's Civil War to that of the U. S., and swung to theatrical fame on the clapper of a cardboard bell, Joseph Boggs Beale had produced a lively drawing of Bessie in the belfry, her wild hair and her reticule swinging free, silencing...
Died. John Craig, 64, actor and theatrical producer: of a heart attack: in Woodmere. L. I. Longtime leading man in the famed Augustin Daly Company at Daly's Theatre (Manhattan) he succeeded John Drew there, was later leading man for Mrs. Minnie Maddern Fiske...
Died. Marie Augusta Davey Fiske (Mrs. Minnie Maddern Fiske), 66, Grand Dame of the U. S. stage; of heart disease; in Queens, Long Island, N.Y. Death came at the home of her secretary, whose mother cared for Mrs. Fiske's 10-year-old adopted son. In accordance with her fervent wish, announcement of her death was delayed 24 hr. No one saw her in her coffin. Only three persons attended her funeral. Born of a theatrical family, Mrs. Fiske began her career at the age of three; it extended, except for a four year retirement after she married Harrison...