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MARLOWE, JULIA [SARAH FRANCES See also:FROST] (1870– ) , See also:American actress, was See also:born near See also:Keswick, See also:England, on the 17th of See also:August 187o, and went with her See also:family to See also:America in 1875. Her first formal See also:appearance on the See also:stage was in New See also:York in 1887, although she had before that travelled with a juvenile See also:opera See also:company in H.M.S. Pinafore, and afterwards was given such parts as Maria in Twelfth See also:Night in See also:Miss See also:Josephine See also:Riley's travelling company. Her first See also:great success was as Parthenia in Ingomar, and her subsequent presentations of Rosalind, See also:Viola, and Julia in The Hunchback confirmed her position as a " See also:star." In 1894 she married See also:Robert Taber, an actor, with whom she played until their See also:divorce in 1900. Subsequently she had great success as See also:Barbara Frietchie in See also:Clyde See also:Fitch's See also:play of that name, and other dramas; and from 1904 to 1907 she acted with E. H. See also:Sothern in a notable See also:series of See also:Shakespeare plays, as well as in See also:modern See also:drama. MARLY-LE-ROI, a See also:village of See also:northern See also:France in the See also:department of See also:Seine-et-See also:Oise, 5 M. N. by W. of See also:Versailles by road. Pop. (1906), 1409. Notwithstanding some See also:fine See also:country houses, Marly is dull and unattractive, and owes all its celebrity to the sumptuous See also:chateau built towards the end of the 17th See also:century by See also:Louis XIV., and now destroyed.

It was originally designed as a See also:

simple hermitage to which the See also:king could occasionally retire with a few of his more intimate See also:friends from the pomp of Versailles, but gradually it See also:grew until it became one of the most ruinous extravagances of the See also:Grand Monarque. The central See also:pavilion (inhabited by the king himself) and its twelve subsidiary pavilions were intended to suggest the See also:sun surrounded by the signs of the See also:zodiac. Seldom visited by Louis XV., and wholly abandoned by Louis XVI., it was demolished after the Revolution, its See also:art treasures having previously been dispersed, and the remains now consist of a large See also:basin, the Abreuvoir, a few mouldering See also:ivy-grown walls, some traces of parterres with magnificent trees, the See also:park, and the See also:forest of 82 sq. m., one of the most pleasant promenades of the neighbourhood of See also:Paris, containing the See also:shooting preserves of the See also:President of the See also:Republic. See also:Close to the Seine, See also:half-way between Marly-le-Roi and St Germain, is the village of See also:Port-Marly, and one mile farther up is the See also:hamlet of Marly-la-See also:Machine. Here, in 1684, an immense See also:hydraulic See also:engine, driven by the current of the See also:river, was erected; it raised the See also:water to a high See also:tower, where the See also:aqueduct of Marly began (700 yds. in length, 75 in height, with 36 See also:arches, still well-preserved), carrying the See also:waters of the Seine to Versailles.

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