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LEFT MARLOWE 129 MARMOT his best work. Many believe him to have oeen the author of the second and third parts of Shakespeare's "Henry VI." He wrote also the first part of a narrative poem, "Hero and Leander," completed afterward by George Chapman. He died June 1, 1593. MARLOWE, JULIA, an American actress; born in Caldbeck, England, Aug. 17, 1870; came with her parents to the United States in 1875 ; joined the Juvenile Opera Company in 1882, and played in "Pinafore," "Chimes of Normandy," etc., in which she was known as Frances Brough; subsequently she took a child's part in "Rip Van Winkle." Afterward she studied in New York for three years and then appeared on the metropolitan stage as Parthenia in "Ingomar." In 1888 she began to star in Shakespearean and other romantic and tragic roles in the United States and became one of the most popular artists on the American stage. She married, in 1894, Robert Taber, but divorced him in 1899. In 1918 she married Edward H. Sothern, with whom she had acted as co-star for sev- eral years preceding. With her husband she toured the United States annually in Shakespearean repertoire. She retired from the stage in 1914, but in 1920, with her husband, again played Shakespear- ean roles in the United States. From an artistic standpoint the Sothern-Mar- lowe productions were the most notable of their time. MARMALADE, a semi-liquid preserve, made by boiling the pulp of thick-rinded fruits, such as oranges, pineapples, quinces, etc., with portions of the rind. The most common kind of marmalade is made from the bitter or Seville oranges, the common or sweet sorts being con- sidered inferior for this purpose, though also occasionally used. The woolly coat- ing on the interior being removed, the rind is cut up into thin strips, and boiled along with the expressed juice of the pulp and a quantity of sugar equal in weight to the other ingredients. MARMORA, or MARMARA (mar'-) (ancient Propontis), a small sea between European and Asiatic Turkey, commu- nicating with the .^gean Sea by the Strait of the Dardanelles (anciently Hel- lespont), and with the Black Sea by the Strait of Constantinople (anciently Bos- porus). It is of an oval form, and about 135 miles in length, by 45 in breadth, but has, besides, a large gulf, the Gulf of Isnikmid, or Ismid, which extends about 30 miles E. into Asia. Its depth is great. There is a current from the Bosporus through it and the Hellespont to the archipelago; but its navigation ig by no means difficult. During the World War the Sea of Marmora had great strategic value, as the only means of procuring supplies from Russia. To open this route the disastrous attempt to open the Dardanelles to the Allies was largely due. MARMOSET (-set'), the platyrhine genus Hapale, from the tropical region of South America. H. Jacchus is the common marmoset, which is readily tamed, and becomes an amusing pet. The fur of the body is darkish-bi*own, with different shades of color for each hair, which is dusky at the root, reddish in MARMOSET the middle and gray at tip. The head is small, the nose flat, the face black, with a long tuft of white hair sticking out from each side. The tail is long and bushy, marked with alternate rings of ash-color and black. H. humeralifer is the cloaked marmoset. The fore part of the body is white; the hands gray; the rump and underside deadish-tawny; tail banded with gray and black. Called also ouistiti. MARMOT, a popular name for any individual of the genus Arctomys, but more particularly confined to A. vutr- mota, the common or Alpine marmot, of the higher regions of the Alps, Pyrenees, and Carpathians. It is about 20 inches in length; dark brown above, and lighter