Show MRS JAMES BROWN POTTER What She Says About New York Society and and People in Glass Houses Special to TIE HERALD Kxaminer Diapatcl NEW YORK Jan 14 Before leaving for Australia on the Oceanic Mrs James Brown Potter granted an interview to a correspondent of Dunlaps Cable society Mr Kyrle Bellow who accompsnies heron her-on the tonr was present I am very indignant in-dignant at the way I have been treated in the United States Society it seems tome to-me has something better to do than to frown upon women of the stage Surely i t is better to strive for an honest living than to be party to a society of general wickedness New York society in enera part cular should not throw stones she has too many glass houses In my opinion there is as much purity honesty and good breeding on the stage as in the proudest New York houses All my holiday friends have deserted me when I was in need of sympathy the press has hounded me for months and made insinua tions that were utterly unfounded Mr Bellow has been a friend and but for him I would not have one in the world Mrs Potter said she did not want to talk of her future but might come to America some day where her efforts to improve the tone of the stage would perhaps not be misunderstood mis-understood She further said she was sick and disgusted with interviewing particu larly when conducted by women as they made it a pretext to look at her clothes and then go and write long indelicate articles about her most intimate belongings Bel lew standing by frowned and urged Mrs Potter to say nothing more They quitted London without any notice from the local press Mrs Potter was accompanied by her nurse and ladys maid She said she went out under an engagement engage-ment to Mr Garner for a series of theatrical cal performances which would begin at Melbourne early in April and last twhnty w ek Mrs Potter said that she had purchased pur-chased exclusive rights for Australia of La Tosca Theodora and Wills and Groves new play Pompadour Worth designed her costumes for La Tosca and Theodora and shf considers them the triumph tri-umph of his genius Mrs Potter goes well equipped in other respects taking with her letters of introduction from royal personages per-sonages and others of high social distinction distinc-tion and celebrity in the world of arts and letters addressed to governors judges bishops bankers and others of general and local repute Mrs Potter is quite confi terprise dent of the success of her Australian en |