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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."
Source:
Variety 12:5 (10/10/1908)