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[Continued from January 13 (reply #6.) ]

January 15, SATURDAY. Went with Ellie last night to Dodworth’s rooms and heard Mrs. Kemble read The Tempest. She is fat, but not comely. Very admirable performance. Vocal resources wonderful. She has half a dozen voices in her; drew a separate stop for each character; produced a deep, sullen, brute roar and snarl for Caliban that seemed an impossibility from any feminine windpipe. Prospero’s tone was grand, and nothing could be more tender and gentle than her Miranda. Her tipsy Stefano was transcendent; equal to Burton in The Toodles, and all her comedy was rendered with a spirit of fun I did not in the least expect. No stage performance could be more satisfactory or bring out the beauties of the play (poem rather) more vividly. And what a glorious poem it is!

The Diary of George Templeton Strong, Edited by Allan Nevins and Milton Halsey Thomas

[Homer_J_Simpson]

This would be the Mrs. Kemble who performed the reading.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fanny_Kemble

[Homer_J_Simpson]

Continued from January 15 (reply #3.)

The Diary of George Templeton Strong, Edited by Allan Nevins and Milton Halsey Thomas