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MARIE TEMPEST (1866– )

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Originally appearing in Volume V26, Page 591 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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MARIE See also:TEMPEST (1866– )  , the See also:stage name of the See also:English actress, nee See also:Marie Susan Etherington, who in 1898 ma-ried Cosmo See also:Gordon-See also:Lennox (" Cosmo See also:Stuart "), a See also:grandson of the 5th See also:duke of See also:Richmond, and himself an actor and playwright . She had a charming See also:soprano See also:voice and was educated for the operatic and See also:concert stage, but at first appeared in See also:light comic See also:opera, in which she became very popular . Abandoning See also:music, however, for the See also:comedy stage, she made an even greater success as an actress, notably in Becky See also:Sharp (1901); and under her own management in later years she produced a See also:succession of See also:modern comedies, in which her capacity for rivalling in See also:London the triumphs of See also:Rejane in See also:Paris was conspicuously displayed .

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