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...Bumpstead-Leigh. So few playwrights have ever caught the evanescent quality that is the essence of Mrs. Minnie Maddern Fiske's acting that she is scarcely to be blamed for reviving a play from her past instead of trying to find and create something new. And, everything considered, this oldtime vehicle is as good as any to bring a very fine actress back to New York. It is obvious and it is awkward but it is also amusing, even after 18 years. The story is that of the daughter of a patent-medicine faker, who attempts to scale...
Actresses Minnie Maddern Fiske and Henrietta Crosman, and Actor Otis Skinner, who were playing The Merry Wives of Windsor...
...Minnie Maddern Fiske, actress, Litt...
...Minnie Maddern Fiske, Margaret Anglin, Harrison Grey Fiske, announce a "migratory dramatic institution" whose Broadway appearance will be merely incidental to an itinerary that will include scores of cities. The Merry Wives of Windsor, Shakespeare's farce in which wenching Falstaff involves himself in domestic infelicity and intrigue, will tour 30 weeks. Otis Skinner, "guest star," is to joggle about in the role of the urbane rogue. The plan is to present modern U. S. and European plays on occasion but, for the most part, to produce "classics...
...deceased, the while his son's brain softens from inherited syphilis. As a play it is remarkable less for its profundity than for the technical mastery with which it swells through a gorgeous crescendo to a thunderclap climax. Interpretation of the Mrs. Alving's role by Minnie Maddern Fiske, 61, is different. What is usually a sad, ironical figure, she turns into a deftly satirical one. Though affording Mrs. Fiske's admirers an opportunity to exclaim once again over her genius for discovering comedy in almost any kind of situation, it failed to accord with the sombre...