Stella Boniface Weaver ( â€" June , ) was a stage actress from
Richmond, Virginia. In the late s and s she was an important member of
the company of Lester Wallack, at th Street and Broadway (Manhattan).
She appeared in Wallack productions of False Shame (), The School For
Scandal (), Our Club (), and My Son ().The daughter of George C.
Boniface, Weaver went on stage as a youth. Her fellow actors included
Sol Smith Russell, John Edward McCullough, John T. Raymond, and
Lawrence Barrett. In Weaver teamed with Charles Coghlan, Rose
Coghlan, and John Gibbs Gilbert in The Snowball. The same year she was
featured in Our Girls by H.J. Byron and appeared with Maurice
Barrymore in a revival of The Shaughraun. She acted with Gilbert,
Wallack, and Emily Rigl in an original production of A Child of the
State. She supported Wallack in My Awful Dad, somewhat later. At
Harrigan's Park Theatre, later renamed the Herald Square Theatre,
Weaver was in Old Levender with Edward Harrigan. She played in a
rendition of Ben Hur produced by Klaw and Erlanger and a staging of
The First Year, produced by John Golden.She died at the Home For
Incurables in . For many years she resided at the Percy Williams Home
on Long Island. Weaver was survived by a sister, Mrs. Horace McVicker.
She had a private funeral and is buried in Fairview Cemetery, in Red
Bank, New Jersey.
Richmond, Virginia. In the late s and s she was an important member of
the company of Lester Wallack, at th Street and Broadway (Manhattan).
She appeared in Wallack productions of False Shame (), The School For
Scandal (), Our Club (), and My Son ().The daughter of George C.
Boniface, Weaver went on stage as a youth. Her fellow actors included
Sol Smith Russell, John Edward McCullough, John T. Raymond, and
Lawrence Barrett. In Weaver teamed with Charles Coghlan, Rose
Coghlan, and John Gibbs Gilbert in The Snowball. The same year she was
featured in Our Girls by H.J. Byron and appeared with Maurice
Barrymore in a revival of The Shaughraun. She acted with Gilbert,
Wallack, and Emily Rigl in an original production of A Child of the
State. She supported Wallack in My Awful Dad, somewhat later. At
Harrigan's Park Theatre, later renamed the Herald Square Theatre,
Weaver was in Old Levender with Edward Harrigan. She played in a
rendition of Ben Hur produced by Klaw and Erlanger and a staging of
The First Year, produced by John Golden.She died at the Home For
Incurables in . For many years she resided at the Percy Williams Home
on Long Island. Weaver was survived by a sister, Mrs. Horace McVicker.
She had a private funeral and is buried in Fairview Cemetery, in Red
Bank, New Jersey.
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