Marie Tempest
Marie Tempest (1864-1942) was a famous British actress.
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Biography
Born Mary Susan Etherington in in London on 15 July 1864.
Between 1914-1921, she toured America, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, India, Singapore, China, Japan and the Philippines with her own company.
She died on 15 October 1942.
Contribution to SA theatre, film, media and/or performance
Her period in South Africa (1918-1919) saw productions of many of her standard repertoire of plays, including Mrs Dot (Maugham), Penelope (Maugham), and The Duke of Killiekrankie () in 1918 and Mary Goes First () in 1919, at His Majesty’s Theatre in Johannesburg.
Sources
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie_Tempest
S.A. Pictorial, 9 November 1918
S.A. Pictorial, 28 June 1919
D.C. Boonzaier, 1923. "My playgoing days – 30 years in the history of the Cape Town stage", in SA Review, 9 March and 24 August 1932. (Reprinted in Bosman 1980: pp. 374-439.)
F.C.L. Bosman, 1928. Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel I: 1652-1855. Pretoria: J.H. de Bussy. [1]: pp.
F.C.L. Bosman. 1980. Drama en Toneel in Suid-Afrika, Deel II, 1856-1916. Pretoria: J.L. van Schaik: pp.
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