The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-01-27
HER NAME IS TEMPEST BUT TT
 SHOULD BE SUNSHINE" SAYS DOLLY
Rx DOLLY nALRYMPr.E

you secret;
 Little Miss Florence Tempest, who is making such Init" round at the Lyric this week. leads dual life.
 Doesn't that sound lovely and wicked.
 It's true and I was invited to choose either of them for the heart to heart talk with the pretty little star yester- day afternoon. when I called on her in her dressing room, just after her act at the matinee. :.
 Would I prefer to meet her as girl or would 1t be more novel to chat with her as boy?'' the obliging .P. A" asked me, in his usually nice. consid- crate way.
 Now, then; I've told you the secret; she's a perfectly good little boy some of the time, and a perfectly good little girl the rest of the time. Alasl l baked at the boy question. and accepted the less original invitation to chat with her as just what she really is-a most bewitching, lovely, fascinating girl.
 The result? Little Miss Tempest and Yours Truly are on very good terms. I thought if I talked with her about the boy question she'd probably tell me that vesta Tilley was her inspiration or that maybe when she was a wee tot,' she was a tom-boy and climbed trees and wanted to wear trousers, so Just let that go and turned the batteries good and strong on the girl question, which after all is the most interesting don't you think so?
 Miss Tempest whirled into her dressing room panting, perspiring, tired,
 There was winter in the outside air, and it was becomngly reflected in the little lady's face. for she was radiant she of the coal black hair, and the black. black eyes and the blood red lips-pretty as a picture-indeed, for all the world like one of the gypsies described by George Borrow, in "Romany Rye
 She's graceful and young is little Flor enze Tempest-woven of sunshine and sprightliness, and good cheer, and stitched. into place by that elusive charm, that for the want of a better word, we call per sonality'
 She's light and lit and laughter, and reminds you of a sunbeam that a child throws upon the wall with a mirror.
 She's gay and lght-hearted and fleet footed and nimble-t toed; she's youth and gayety and naivette combined, and her winsomeness is irresistible,
 Your name should be Sunshine, instead of Tempest" I said as the youthful star bade me be seated and flung herself carelessly into big, comfortable chair and surveyed her tiny form in the mirror opposite.
 Now isn't that funny" said Miss Temp h.,tr ,s let trhn pa is Sunshine Marion Sunshine; perhaps you know her She's coming here next week with Raymond Hitchcock in The Beauty Shop No, you haven't met her? Well. she's the sunshine of our house. hold"
 '"rhen there are twins in your family, I observed, "because you are to me the incarnation of sunshine and joy
 Funny said the little lady quickly, .how we got our names You see we really are not Sunshine and Tempest those are only make-believe names. We used them after we went on the stage. Our real name is flames. It's Spanish, al- though we were born in Kentucky, and our father is southerner When We were little bitties=''
 "As if you were more than that now" I interpolated
 "Oh. I'm very ancient" Miss Tempest insisted I've been on the stage 13 years. Went on when l was 8. If you are a good mathematician you can see quickly that I'm veteran-N years old, if you please
 .'Twenty-one years young" should put it. l suggested.
 How nice" said she quite pleased. but as I was about to tell you, when I was a little tot, my sister and I used to sing and play and do all sorts of stunts, and when Sunshine was 6 years old and I was 9 we used to sing the sextet from 'Florodora. One day we had a lot of company at the house. and we were asked to show off for the ladies'. We ap- peared in all our grandeur to render the ia nous sextet. Sunshine forgot her part completely. She must have had stage fright or something; anyway, I got furi- ous. I stormed and railed and ranted like wild person, and Sunshine merely smiled The company seemed very much impressed by the difference in our na- lures, so they nicknamed us Sunshine and Tempest The names followed us and later when we went on the stage, as I said before, we adopted them."
 What did you do first on the stage?" I asked
 Sunshine and l made our debut in Shakespeare with Mir. Robert Mantell in Richard the H. We were the little princes in the tower. I used to mem- orize pages and pages of Shakespeare, ana some day may play It again. Fun ny, though, how people have grown tired of Shakespeare and seem to care so little for it, isn't it?"
 I agreed with the young lady, and then proceeded to ask her about the next move she made in histrionic circles
 After that--oh let me see,'' Miss Tempest said reflectively, as if her career had been miles and miles long. 'I did a lot of musical comedy things and then l went on the vaudeville stage. As Sun shine and Tempest we were booked with the Ziegfeld Follies, and we were inter-