Fatima Miris

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Quick change artist.
In "The Geisha" Miss Miris assumed eight characters, reappearing in each often, and persistently singing, not one verse of a number with each character, but two or three. With an almost marvelously flexible voice, Miris sang baritone when in men's clothes, and high soprano in girl's, running the register between while in other costumes, speaking or singing in several languages. The final change-play, "The King's Highway," is not as complicated as "The Geisha," but it admits of Miss Miris changing costume while running rapidly around a cabinet, an officer pursuing a highwayman, she taking both characters in a "chase."
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Variety 12:5 (10/10/1908)