The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1906-01-18
TO
SUE FOR NAME
MES BROWN POT.
TER'S PRESENT WIFE
is NERVOUS.
MATTER OF Sl5O,OOO,OOO
That is Sum Demanded by
Actress to Give Up Name
fpy AssocIated Press.l


London, jan Je-Mrs. James Brown
Potter, of New York (whc was Miss
May Handy, of Baltimore), is appar.
entity annoyed by the fact that her
husbands first wife, the actress. still
calls herself Mrs. James Brown Potter.
A few days ago Charles r. Honey,
of Honey a Keith. lawyers, OF New
York. called upon Messrs wontner,
lawyers Of Mrs. James Brown Potter,
Of London. and said he had come from
New York to see them in behalf OF the
present wife OF James Brown Potter,
who wishes to know IL Mrs Cora
urquhart Brown Potter couA not be
persuaded TO use some other name in
order to oblige Mrs. Brown Potter, of
New York, as the actress and the
New York woman are constantly mix
ed up in the imaginatlons of ignorant
persons
Strictly Business.
The Messrs wontner did not know
who James Brown Potter or the pres.
ent Mrs. James Brown ~ ter were,
but they talked r-cr the proposition
o. Mr.. Honey wi,h him on cold
blooded business basis. They pointed
out to Mr.. Honey that Mrs. James
Brown Potter, of London, has made
her name known throughout the
world as an actress; that Brown Pot
ter was practically her trade mark,
ANA that, though she had been his
wife, she had no claim whatever upon
James Brown Potter. and desired to
make none.
Her name" tho lawyers said,
brings her in an income upon which
she lives; and why. without well ar
ranged business proposition, should
she relinqulsh her name in order TO
enhance the social position OF the lady
who is now the second wife Of her
former husband2g
Mr.. Honey suggested that possibly
she might be open to inducement.
Certainly responded Mr.. Won't
ner, who knew his clients views on
this point. IT you want to buy =
trade mark you mus tpay for It. Mrs
Brown Potter will not cali herself Mrs
Cora Jones or Miss Cora Urquhart or
any other undistinguishing title un.
less she be paid s25O.OOO IN cash"
Consultation by Gable.
Mr.. Honey then withdrew to con
suit James Brown Potter by cable, but
so far no further proposition has been
laid before Mrs. Brown Potter's law
yers.
Mr.. Potter Declares He Knows
Nothing Of the Proposition
James Brown Potter told reporter
for the World yesterday that he
knew nothing about the proposition
made by Mr. Honey to his former
wifes lawyers.
MI iohtJ SUI noiu 'h1 hSHb VI
the firm had been In London recently
but so far as he knew. not On any suet
mission.
Mrs. Brown oPtter's stage career
has always been a sore point with hel
former husbands family, and especial
Iy has this been the case since The
marriage Of her daughter. "Fih." Il
James A. stlliman. Jr. II IS knowr
that James A. stillman. sr.. did al
that was in his power 10 prevent the
mother OF his daughter-inlaw from
coming to America. In fact. II hai
been said that he backed Mrs Pottel
financially in her last theatrical ven
ture. which ended 80 disastrously
solely TO keep her from coming u
America.
That the present wife OF James
Brown oPtter should take such action
as is related by the Worlds London
correspondent would be perfectly nat
ural, and II IL not unlikely that such
action has been taken. through motives
OF delicacy. without the knowledge OF
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