Show MRS POTTERS WORK little did mrs james brown potter think when ehe she bankrupted a home for the sake bake ot of desolating a stage that she was going to set in motion a new development of theatrical craziness such as baa has been ushered upon the scene by means of the shakespearean pear eart etory story of antony and cleopatra one crie of the great bards pieces that bad had fallen into the most oblivious desuetude being only read at long intervals and in JI email sections by the mora antique and curious 0 of our cs es whether it was a stroke of good judgment as was the case with joe jefferson when his penetrating penot eye discovered something promising inrid in kip van fin win lle ile or simply a stroke of good luck has not been unfolded bat but it is safe to venture the assertion that it bat but little if any of ha the former condition obtained anyway cleopatra is all the rage now barab sarah bernhardt has made a big strike in it and mrs costumes havo have done likewise the infection is spreading and we may look for an edition of it in utah at any time now there is always it seems some atoning or compensating circumstance for every misfortune or untoward event those who have seen mrs potter act or rather try to act the writer is amone among them will bear witness to the fact that the effort is to the audience if it lit it is not to the lady herself and would be to her if she only realized what kind of impressions pres it is ia she is producing when she swings her long arms about her gaunt fidure fi uro and takes the stage as though she had bad a corn on each toe too bat but her efforts in ia tho the histrionic line have accomplished two distinctly useful thing things lor for the literary world the rescue of one of Shake most excellent ercol lent works from obscurity and the gratification of those who banker flanker after the erotic in literature with more healthful pabulum than euch such productions duct ions aa as the kreutzer sonata and the quiet quick or the dead in addition perhaps wa we ought to eay say that her remarkable career has furnished furnie hed the world with the lesson that a successful society woman is not necessarily a good actress ac treas |