"SO SHINES A GOOD DEED."

Auckland Star, Volume LXIII, Issue 77, 1 April 1932, Page 6

"SO SHINES A GOOD DEED."

To Mrs. Minnie Maddern Fiskc the world was a stage, but as has been said in another connection, the stage to her was not the world (says the "Christian Science Monitor - '). Larger than the theatre were her interests, great though her accomplishments were there. She was prouder of her success in spreading humane education than she was of her well-deserved fame as the actress-manager who was chiefly responsible for introducing the Ibsen drama into the United States. Those who sought to draw her out on her theories of acting and stage management found themselves soon shunted to the needs of the local Animal Rescue League or listening to a vivid exposition of improved means of raising fur-bearing animals for skins to be obtained humanely.

Privately she kept up her great work for humane education. Incalculable were Mrs. Fiske's services in obtaining humane legislation and in increasing legal restrictions on the use for millinery purposes of feathers cruelly obtained. She had the courage, on many occasions, to grab the arm of a burly teamster while he was beating his horses. Nor would she leave the scene until the man chose between arrest and greater consideration for the helpless beast, f!olden words will be uttered in praise of Mrs. Fiske's art, but she had. her chief reward in the look of dumb gratitude in the eyes of thousands of horses and "waifs and strays" that over a period of more than half a century she succoured and protected.