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all the uncontrollable emotion of the red-haired daughter of Henry VIII.
It is a curious fact that the two greatest actresses who came to the United States played in French and in Italian to audiences not half of whom understood either language. But the genius of artistic and dramatic representation confounded the Tower of Babel. Rachel, Ristori, Sara Bernhardt, and Duse would be understood in the Choctaw. For them, and such as they, the Tower of Babel does not exist.
