The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1886-11-02
MAY FISK.
Ike Remarkable Career of a More
Remarkable Woman.
How Tickle Fortune Plays Shut
tlecOck With the FOndest
Hopes.
A Woman Before Whom Majesty
Has Bowed Bows Before the
HumbIesI Serf Herself.

There is always something sad in
the history of misdirected talent and
probabilities which lie behind the lives
of those who have achieved nOtOriety
of a certain kind only must cause
tears of regret to drop from the eyes
of even the angels as they lean over
the bulwarks of Heaven and see His
handiwork married, defaced and trod-
den into the mire of social orstracism.
These reflections are suggested by a
brief resume of the theatrical life of
MISS MAY FISK,
who recently was at the head of a
company eff female burlesquers and
who summarily came to grief in this
city, through her inability to liquidate
certain bills presented by marble and
unimpressionable boarding house
keepers and others who had
business relations with her. The
resume is made through the medium
of Miss Fisk's scrap book, which
among other property was left behind
her when she uncermoniously plumed
her wing and sought new fields where
the aforesaid b. b. ks are willing to
wait long and be patient with birds of
her feather.
Years ago when May was as round
as a kitten and as plump as part
ridge; when the tints of the rose
bloomed on her cheek without the aid
of rouge or carmine, at so much box
when life behind the footlights were
the roseate hue of the morning and
disaster and heart break and disap-
pointments and mean boarding house
keepers was thing to be read of.
She appeared as Katrina in the first
production of Fritz" by the we'll
known and celebrated j. K. Emmett,
at Griswold's opera house in Troy,
New York, and a local paper in
speaking of the performance says:
after Mr.. Emmett, the credit of
the plays success belongs to Miss May
Fisk, who in the character of IA
trina, a young fraulein, afterwards
Fritz wife, fairly divided the hOnOrs
of the evSing with the star"
Once more at the Troy opera house
Miss Fisk is praised for good work
done as the Juvenile lady in Mary
Gladstone's company, and following
her career, she is found in Miss Agnes
EthePs company at the Providence,
r. l., academy of music, where. of
her it was said, she played in "Mad
for Love-" with a "subdued energy
that lent charm to the wild child of
the desert that she personated."
After this she came before the
world as a star, and organized COM
pany under the name of the
MAY FISK COMBINATION,
with which she met with great success
and which the Bangor. Hartford and
other cities and towns of the East,
praised vigorously. She was said to
be the the best actress seen there for
years, and afterward when she went
to Michigan, the Michigan press de-
clared that they were proud of her
and glad TO claim her as one of Mich
igan's "fairest and most brilliant
daughters"
In the Two Orphans" Miss Fisk
met with considerable success in New
York city and then went to
Jamaica, where she drew
crowded houses. Her company
also gave "Jewish Mother or Woman
in Red, " in most acceptable manner,
if the comments of the press at that
point are to be believed. Miss Fisk
was ambitious, however, and not con-
tent with the laurels she had already
won, she essayed the 'Lady of Ly-
ons" and similar plays, and also met
with success. As Camille" she was
emotional enough for the most emo
tional, and while not coming any.
where near to the wonderful Bern