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MARIE SUSAN, an English actress, born in London in 1866, her father's name being Etherington . She went to a convent in Belgium and studied music in Paris and London. She began playing at the Comedy Theater in London in 1885, her first rôle being in "Boccaccio." Her impersonations of Nell Gwyn and Becky Sharp brought her into prominence as a leading comedienne, and TEMPLARS her later parts of Polly Eccles in "Caste," Peggy O'Mara in "All-of-a- Sudden Peggy," Becky Warder in "The Truth," and Kitty in "The Marriage of Kitty" established her position on the English stage. In 1915 she revived "The Duke of Killiecrankie." Miss Tempest in 1898 married Cosmo Gordon -Lennox . seven

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