The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1885-10-10
A RARE TREAT.
Miss Helen Potter to Appear at
Delaware College.

On Wednesday evening next the citi-
zens of this vicinity will be gi.en the
opportunity to hear one of the most
brilliant and talented publice women
that has sprung up of late years to aid
III the acquisition of deserved honor and
distinction for her sex. Miss Helen
Potter is woman of such remarkable
powers as we only look for in characters
that appear at distant intervals upon the
throne of @omans kingdom. This great
reader and impersonator early discov-
cred the paths wherein she was destined
to tread, and, unhindered by the advice
terests, she set herself sternly and ear
nestly to the tasks that must be per-
formed ere she reached that divine per-
lection i'll her art wherein lay fame and
pleasant notorietv. And we can safely
say that she has reached in
her art that perfection for which
she strove. In the delivery of her selcc-
lions from the works of the master
minds of the world Miss Potter uses
degree of philosophy much resembling
the methods of Rachel or a Cushman.
In play of ShakSpearc's she is the
character she attempts to portray: into
her rendition of the poems of TennysOn
she throws fire and touch of lofty color
fully as fine and vivid as the poets own
passion and inspiration; in her reading
of the simple pastoral legends and play
ful ballads of the words minor writers
she assumes quaintness and simplicity
of style 50 fitting to the subject, its time
and place, that it is herself becomes the
living poem, the epitone of verse and
metre and story. The one great com
mendab.e feature of Miss Potter's enter
tainments is the variety she makes in
her programmes. One moment dwelling
upon the sublime couplets of Milton or
Pope or Homer, or on the lofty epigrams
of Shakespeare, Byron, and Browning;
the next her clear and pliable voice
sounds through the house in irresistible
mimiery of life's humorous and ludicious
side. Her audience, composed however
it may be, of grotesque mixture of
the philosopher and school girl, will
never fail to be pleased and entertained
by her performance. One moment
plunged into the dramatic action of an
immortal epic, the next she rut1les the
faces of her hearers with hearty whole
some smiles at the quaint portrayals of
those curious beings whom Dickens,
have drawn with such impressive colors,
with mirth provoking spirit and grace.
Miss Helen Potter has won the first
place i'll her profession, and never fails
to win the highest place i'll the hearts of
her hearers. Her entertainment at Del
aware College on Wednesday evening
next will furnish one of the best means
for an evening of unsurpassed enjoy
ment ever offered in this vicinity. 1t is
under the management of the Delaware
College Press Association with Mr.. VIM.
Dullamel at its head. a great deal of
expense has cen incurred by the man
agement in securing Miss Potter and
their efforts should be appreciated SO
deeply that ever seat in the pleasant
Oratory will be filled. 1t is not often
that the people of Eikton, Newark, and
vicinity are given the opportunity to
hear the performance Of one who has
been honored i'll every city of the Union
by the brightest people in the land and
who last fall had the silent qualification
of drawing the largest audience that
ever gathered in the Philadelphia acad-
envy of music at Star course entertain
ment