Evening star., 1898-09-30
WE'RE BURIED YESTERDAY.
Remains of Fanny Davenport No
Rest hy Her ParentA.

Rest by Her Parents.
The funeral of Fanny Davenport VINO
died at her summer home, Melbourne Hall,
Monday night, was held at Trinity Church.
Back Bay, Boston. yesterday The body was
brought from Duxbury on a special train,
arriving at the Kneeland street station at
II o'clock, and was taken direct to the
church.
The pallbearers were Messrs. Joseph JEFF
ferson, John B. Schoeffel, Isaac B. Rich.
DR.. H. H. A Beach, Captain A. A. Fol-
som, B. E. Woolf, w. F. w. Ball and Will
liam Seymour.
Music was rendered in the church by
members of the Bostonians. The funeral
was private. The body was taken to the
cemetery at Forest Hills where 1t was laid
by the side of Mrs McDowells father and
mother.
Fanny Davenport was the daughter of
the late Edgar L. Davenport, of the
best-known and most versatile actors of Il
past generation the American stage.
Her mother was Fanny Elizabeth Vining,
daughter of the manager of the Haymarket
Theater, London. She was born in the En-
glish metropolis April 10, 1850
Her childhood was largely spent in Bos-
ton, and her flrst appearance on the stage
was as the child in "Metamora," at the
Howard Athenaeum in that city, then man
aged by her father. Subsequently, she act
ed at the Little fremont Theater, Boston,
and in the south, where she played sou
brette parts for a season. Then she ap
peared ''Stalacta" in the BLACK Crook.
Under the management of Mrs. John Drew
she acted at the Arch Street Theater, Phil
adelphla.
Augustin Daily saw her in Philadelphia
and engaged her for the Fifth Avenue The
ater which he then managed. For nearly
ten years she was his star, playing in
long list of parts: In Shakespeare plays
tod Pog iT,1'' it,. Ac T ilya II
"Imogen'' in "Cyrnbeline,'' 'Rosaline'' in
Loves Labor Lost" Beatrice in Much
Ado About Nothing and Lady Macbeth"
in which she was less successful than in
tragic parts which she played were Paul
ine'' in The Lady of Lyons and Leah"
in Leah. the Forsaken.' In the old COM
edies, including in that list the more mod
ern plays which common consent now
places there, she has acted Lady Teazle''
in The School for Scandal Julia in
The Honeymoon Miss Hardcastle' In
She Stoops to Conquer "Tilburnia" in
The Critic and Peg Wellington" in
MASKS and Faces" in addition to the parts
previously mentioned One of the most sue
cessfui of her representations was Nancy
Skies in a novel dramatization of ''Oliver
Twist while her Camille was particu-
lalry well acted; in fact. one of the best
on the American stage, although in person
al appearance she was hardly an ideal rep
resentative of Dumas consumptive heroine.
Other characters which she has given are
"Gilberte" in "Frou Frou," Este in "Blue
Glass; Bell Van Rensselaer, in Bronson
Howards 'Moorcroft," "Francine" of the
pearl gray in Daly's Two Widows"
Duchess de Septmonts' in THE Ameri-
can," Daly's adaptation of Dumas IL Et-
rangere," "Eugenia Cadwallader' in THE
Big Bonanza" Helen Graythorne' in
Weak Woman" Mary Melrose" in "Our
Boys" "Dianthe de Marer' in What
Should She Do?" and Madame Guichard'
in Monsieur Alphonse." The least sue
cessful of her impersonations were OLIVIA
in Wills dramatization of The Vicar of
Wakefield" and Kate Vivian in Anna
Dickinson's AN American Girl but the
failure of success in the latter case was
due more to the play than to the actress.
Miss Davenport had made several pleas
IRE trips abroad. but up to 1882 she had
rever acted there. Then she made pro-
fessional visit to England and played for
a brief season in London and elsewhere.
The principal piece in which she was seen
was ''Pique." which was played under the
title of "Only a Woman" but it failed to
win the success there which it had made in
this country.
In 1888 Miss Davenport began playing
in Sardous Fedora and later followed
with La Tosca,'' cleopatra and "Gis-
monda,' in which she won many laurels.
She had been twice married. Her first
husband was Edward II. Price an actor
and manager, whom she married in 1879
and from whom she was divorced six years
ago. Her second husband was Melbourne
Mcdowell, who has been the leading man
in her plays.