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Miss Marie Tempest continues her success this week at the Globe Theatre in "Dorothy." The Duff Opera Company gives a very pleasing rendering of the popular opera, but Miss Tempest leads the troupe by far. This is the last week of the company's stay...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Dorothy. | 1/27/1891 | See Source »

Miss Marie Tempest, who took the part of "Kitty," is a remarkably good actress and singer for comic opera. She first acted this part in London, and there, as well as 11 this country, she has had great success. She so outshines the other members of the company that one can sorcery remember anything about them, when the play is over, except that they did not act poorly enough to be conspicuous...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Red Hussar. | 1/14/1891 | See Source »

...Princeton's prospects are concerned; at least, the game which will make or mar the undergraduate expectation of success, - will be the Harvard game on Saturday. The elements seem to be gathering for a storm. We cannot foretell the color of the sun-set after the tempest...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Princeton Letter. | 5/20/1887 | See Source »

...other respects there is dead-level, unvaried by a fresh thought or an individual expression. Almost all the writers use the same common-place vocabulary-a very small one-in the same confused way. One year, after reading 200 or 300 compositions on "The Story of the Tempest," I found myself in such profound ignorance of both plot and characters that I had to read the play to set myself right again...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: How English is Taught. | 6/3/1885 | See Source »

...point of culture and breeding, and from the best schools we have. They were all boys with blood in their veins, and brains in their heads, and tongues that could talk fast enough and to the purpose when they felt at ease. Many of them had enjoyed The Tempest-as who that can understand it does not?- but somehow the touch of pen or pencil paralyzed their powers...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: How English is Taught. | 6/3/1885 | See Source »

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