Cora Brown-Potter
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Cora Brown-Potter (1857–1936)[1] was an American born and British trained actress.
Also known as Cora Urquhart Brown-Potter billed as Mrs. Brown-Potter or Mrs Potter.
Biography
she started a successful partnership with Kyrle Bellew at the Fifth Avenue Theatre in the New York production of Civil War in 1877, after which she and Bellew toured the world for the next ten years as the Potter-Bellew Company.
The company was brought out to South Africa in early 1892 by Luscombe Searelle and where they played scenes from Romeo and Juliet, Camille and Hamlet. They returned to England toward the end of February after the Exhibition Theatre in Cape Town burnt down, with all their costumes, just before a final performance of As You Like It.
