Salt Lake Telegram | 1932-02-16 | Page 1 | Noted Actress Dies in Quiet

II I 11 I Career Closes I I I k t l Vi ViF Vid F d 4 q MRS fRS M. M M. M FISKE Shunned Publicity NOTED ACTRESS DIES IN QUIET More Than Fifty Years o of I r Fame Ends in Long Island Village By United Press Irus NEW YORK Feb 16 16 l Mrs Minnie Maddern Fiske the famous Merc Mercy Baxter and Becky of the American stage died almost unheralded in a al little Long Iland village Her husband Harrison Gray Fiske announced today the death a of tho the famous fa famous fa- fa amous a- a actress whose hose roles ran from fun to funereal when he had the bod body removed to a New York taking Sh She died die a athe at atthe atthe the hor nor o of friend whose name was wa not divulged Her death in Holl Hollis s. s Queens was wa a. a n III keeping with her desire desile for a lack o of publicity In her later years ice si-ice she gave up her sta stage e activities sh she had shunned the public notice IK a Hi was hers for nr m m than 50 years o oher of her life There will be no public fUn 1 Fiske said today in announcing hex her death Mrs Fiske left I i in instructions instructions instructions in- in with me mc long a ago o as to Continued on Pace pue Two To NOTED ACTRESS DIES IN QUIET Continued from Irom Page Pace One what she desired to be clone done in this thi I situation She had been under the c care r ct nf f I physicians for lor some time I A list of the plays in which Mrs i Fisk risks endeared herself herselt to the ner ncr I lean can public from her first New York York- I appearance in 1870 to her late latest re revivals revivals re- re i of recent years cars in Shakespearean i ean can comedy would occupy I of space and bring memories to three three- generations of theatergoers Her record shows chows that she had beer on the stage sti practically all her life liCe The phrase is literal l. for lor at he v of or 3 3 in 1868 she first appeared tos as I the Duke of York in Richard III a at i Little Rock Ark I j In her t l years ears vivacious rind ond I with a vein of satirical puckish humor humor humor hu hu- hu- hu mor that eri cn far more into CAroles CA fr roles than the author vcr over intended she attracted thousands to her j performances per p-jr r of oC such masterpieces as ns Mistress Page in The Merry Wives i of Windsor and a as Beatrice in Much Ado About Nothing One of her mo most t c WI v that of oC Mrs Alving Ahing in Ibsen's Ghosts I