Like Lillie Langtry and Mrs. Leslie Carter, she was a well off society woman who, after divorce, turned to the stage and had an outstanding theatrical career. A rare large original 1889 program for Cora Uquhart Brown Potter and Kyrle Bellew in Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra at the Hollis Street Theatre, Boston. Four pages on heavy stock. Dimensions twelve by eight and a half inches. Light wear otherwise good. See Cora Brown Potter's extraordinary biography below.
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From Wikipedia:
Mary Cora Urquhart Brown-Potter (May 15, 1857 – February 12, 1936) was one of the first American society women to become a stage actress.
Mary Cora Urquhart was born on May 15, 1857 in New Orleans,[2] the eldest of three daughters and a son raised by David and Augusta (née Slocomb) Urquhart.[3] Her father was a merchant and her mother the daughter of a hardware merchant.[4]
She married financier James Brown Potter of Brown Bros. & Co., the son of Howard Cranston Potter in 1877 in New Orleans and they had a daughter, Anne, in 1879.[5]
They visited England in 1886 where they met the Prince of Wales and were subsequently invited to spend the weekend with him. James returned to the United States alone following the visit as Cora remained in England to pursue a career on stage. She made her stage debut in 1887 at the Theatre Royal in Brighton in the play Civil War. Later that year she started a successful partnership with Harold Kyrle Bellew at the Fifth Avenue Theatre in the New York production of Civil War.[1] She and Bellew toured the world and starred together for the next ten years.[1]
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In 1889, she played the role of Cleopatra and launched "a mania for Egyptian styles."[6]
She divorced Potter on June 4, 1900.[7] Her ex-husband would remarry in 1904.[5] She continued to use her married name as her stage name. In 1905 she produced and performed the first play of her sister Georgie Raoul-Duval.
Her last appearance on the London stage was in 1912. She made a further stage appearance in 1919 for a benefit production in Guernsey. In addition to her stage career she helped to raise money for war charities during the Second Boer War.[1]
Death
She died on February 12, 1936, aged 78.