FISKE, MINNIE MADDERN (1865-1932), American actress, was born in New Orleans, the daughter of Thomas Davey. As a child she played, under her mother's name of Maddern, with several well-known actors. In 1882 she first appeared as a "star." In 1890 she married Harrison Grey Fiske and was absent from the stage for several years. In 1893 she reappeared in Hester Crewe, a play written by her husband, and afterwards acted a number of Ibsen's heroines, in Shakespearean roles, and Becky Sharp in a dramatization of Thackeray's Vanity Fair. In 19or she opened, in opposition to the American theatrical "trust," an independent theatre in New York, the Manhattan. She had won a considerable reputation in the United States as an emotional actress and as a comedienne, her "Mistress Page" in the 1927-28 revival of The Merry Wives of Windsor was particularly com mended.