The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1888-06-24

pensive for the manager as she poSslbl.
could, and would only do just what sh
was compelled to- do aid nothing more
what else can you expect? In New Or
leans she compelled me to close Mr.
BIdwell's Theatre on Sunday night be-
cause she refused point blank to play
there, when she had promised me faith
fully to do so, providing | would
threaten her with law suit. so that she
could have an excuse to her people that
it was against her will that she ap-
peared, and, of course TO satisfy her /
| promised so to do, ana when I agreed
10 do so she backed out of the agree.
ment.
Il have received letter from Mr..
| David Bidwell, manager of the
| Academy of Music in New Orleans, La,
where Mrs. Potter played, stating that
the receipts of her engagement there
promised to be $4,000, and that if she
had opened the engagement on Sunday
night, as per her contract, the receipts
would nave been increased fully 81 600.
He also stated to me in his letter that
he was informed by his lawyer, Mr..
Sawyer, that Mrs. Potter was legally,
by the laws of Louisiana, bound to play
on Sunday, but that as he and myself
AoN "L1iN1
have been of a pleasant nature, and as
he expected to do business with me
hereafter, he would not take any legal
action against me to recover damages
which he sustained by Mrs. Potter's
not appearing on Sunday evening. He
expected me to make il good in some
way hereafter. He also complains that
during the week Mrs. Potter was there,
or, in fact, The five nights when she
actually played, she used thirty reserved
seats valued a. $3.50. for which she
sent her card, az enclosure Of which l
show you"
KYLE WAS KIN INSTEAD OF NURSE.
"Did she pursrg this same practice
in other cities?''
Eyes, whereYec lie wanted to, and
not only passes whole boxes, and
my manager was compelled to submit
or stand the consequences. She seemed
to think it more glory than anything
else. When | asked her TO be inter
viewed she would stamp her foot on the
floor and declare she wouldn be inter
viewed"
do you think Mrs.. Potter was infu-
enced by anybody"
"She was, wholly and solely by Mr..
Bellew. She simply told me il New
Orleans when we had that interview
there which | have spoken of, between
the time she left the Fifth Avenue The
atre in this city, and the close of the
season, that she would not be inter
viewed or talk with me unless M. Be,
lew was present. "
How did she get along with men,
bers of the company"
Different members of the company
told ME that they did not want to travel
with pleasanter lady or more agree
able one than Mrs. Potter when Mr..
Bellew was not around.
Gould you not get anybody to taA-
Bellows placer"
Mrs Potter insisted upon having
him and no one else; otherwise she
notified me two or three times, and my
manager as many times more, that if l
did not do this she would serve me with
a physicians certificate and lay up
ana as | had contracts with certain
members OF the company which com
PEELED me to keep them so many weeks,
/ found that l had to submit or pay
these people for walking the streets" .
What do you, think OF Mrs. Potter s
dramatic ability
Had Mrs. Potter followed my advice
and allowed me to procure for her q
society drama fitted for her style OF
acting and her former mode of life
placing her among society at the
reception, in the ballroom and on the
promenade, and not been influenced by
bad advice, she certainly would have
been one of the leading actresses Of
America in a very short time"
Then you really think she has dra-
matte abiiitv?'
Il certainly Il. 'hink she has in that
line of acting, o. hardly think her
physique is g enough for the
classics"
is there anv in the statement
of Mrs. Potter in nicago paper that
you wanted n travel without a
nrrss III Rome Juliet?"'
"No. wan-e 9r toilet BelleW play
the nurse"