Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 40, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 February 1908 — Mrs. Fiske Joins Belasco Group. [ARTICLE]

Mrs. Fiske Joins Belasco Group.

David Belasco has announced the appearance of Mrs. Minnie Maddern Fiske and Mmo. Kalich in his theaters next season, this being his answer to the theatrical trust which had captured Miss Blanche Bates. The Schuberts, who are managing Mrs. Fiske this season, have been absorbed by the trust, so that the Fiake-Belasco union brings the last of the independents together. Belasco regards Mrs. Fiske ns the "grentest dramatic artist now on the American stage.” Although her more recent successes have been in Ibsen parts, she will not play these under Belasco.