[Illustration: AGE 4.
_From a Photo. by Levitsky, Paris._]
[Illustration: AGE 18.
_From a Photo. by Elmer & Chickering, Boston._]
[Illustration: AGE 24.
_From a Photo. by Filk, Sydney._]
[Illustration: PRESENT DAY.
_From a Photo. by Warneuke, Glasgow._]
Cora Urquhart Potter was born in Louisiana, her father being Scotch and
her mother partly Mexican. She was educated by her mother, and taught to
act and recite from babyhood, her mother making her play on all
occasions such as birthdays and Christmas. Her first appearance before
friends was at the age of five years. She was married at seventeen. She
never spoke English until fourteen, speaking entirely French and
Spanish, She played all over the States as an amateur, and when the
occasion came, and she was thrown on her own resources, she adopted the
stage as a profession. She has played in every country and city where
the English language is spoken. Mrs. Potter has, perhaps, the largest
_repertoire_ of any living actress.