“ Potter is a handsome woman, and her stage work is characterized by great earnestness, directness, simplicity and intense dramatic force. She is rapidly rising to a high position among the foremost actors of the age. ”

“ Her father was a wealthy cotton-planter, and Cora in childhood lived a life of the typical southern kind, surrounded by wealth and refined associates. In her school-days she showed a talent for recitation, and she was early engaged in amateur theatricals and in elocutionary entertainments. She became the wife of James Brown Potter, of New York City, a man of wealth and high social standing in the metropolis. After her marriage she took a prominent part in New York society, and soon became famous locally as a reciter and emotional actor. ”