The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-10-29
II You Are David Warfield Fan (and Who Isn't?)
 Heres Story About the Most Adored Actor of the Do,
By DOLLY DALRYMPLn

"smallish' looking man with heavy gray hair, the sweetest eyes that anybody ever looked into. under thick, dark brows; a nose that started out to be straight but changed its mind and took a humorous turn right at the tip, and the most ador- able manner you ever beheld.
 That was MT. David warfield as he greeted me yesterday
 You've all seen him lon" the stage, behind the footlights" with the back ground of varied scenes.
 You've seen him as wes Bigelow in 'The Grand Army Man." incisive, delib- crate, pathetic.
 You've sen as Anton von Varwig in ''The Music Master" so quiet, so ominously still, yet by the way strange sublety of his art ingradating the character into your heart.
 You've seen as Anton von Barwig in The Auctioneer." clever. crafty, witty
 Always.
 You've seen him as the supreme artistl
 But
 Have you seen him as I did in another role-just David warfieid, the man and the genius?
 If you haven't, all I can say is that I wish you had, for he is the most ador- able, the sweetest. the biggest and the life.
 David Warfied is inexplicable, even as is all great genius
 He fascnates and he magnetises.
 He subjugates by his tremendous art, even as he challenges!
 This wonderful charm surrounds him off the stage just as 1t does 'on."
 He does not need the grease paint, nor the makeup, nor the scenic effects, nor the limelight to make him what he is, a personality, dynamic, keyed to the highest tension of sensitivity, spiritual, vibrating the deepest motifs of the Tristan and Isolde" tragedy of life.
 There is intellect, impersonal in its aloofness, its perspective, its comprehen- sion
 Yet
 More than personal in it's integral grasp of human tragic-comedy.
 It is this and more that makes David Warfield the idol of the stage today adored as few actors have ever been adored, re-eminent, masterful! a He really didn't want to talk to me.
 He was tired, worn out and l told him l thought 1t was "dog'' mean trick to trap" him the minute he entered the theatre. q didn't even take the chance of sending in card-I just waitedD
 But
 Had he thought, I asked, of the 10000 readers who were looking to me this morning for a story about him?
 He looked at me quizzialy.
 How can body describe the look that David Warfeld has when he is waiting assent to remark?
 It is so receptive that it is almost hol- low, so to speak the look of a little boy who has never had anybody to love him in all his life.
 It's the Oliver Twist look.
 You know what I mean.
 You sort of feel like he wasn't treated exactly right when he was a little bitty," and that no matter what life has given since, it has never made up what was lost.
 Oh, I don't know!
 Presently he said:
 T haven't my wits about me, so to speak, but-well I won't say no! I will talk to you. What is it you want to know?"
 Why" said I, happy. elated, delighted, is it that you always play old men
 He looked at me again.
 This time it was '"rhe Music Master look, all over again, settling vexed prob lems of art In garret talks with his con- freres, and then he answered with a merry twinkle in his eye.
 Perhaps because I am an old man."
 "But.' I protested, you are not!''
 Besides" said he, i've been doing 1t ever since I was young. was 36 when I played my first old man. You see in the 12 years I've been with MT. Belasco I've played only four parts. all old men; my previous first old man being the old Man in 'Catherine.' He was 80."
 What is 1t, after all. that gives you the power to reach the hearts of people as you do in these characters? What Is acting, any way?"
 It is intuition. a gift" he answered quickly.
 Gould you teach a person to acti Would you make good professor in g dramatic school?" I asked
 Never" he said. "I couldn't begin tc tell pupil how to go about acting. Yor can't teach people intuition. All I'd say would be, Take your part; get your owr conception of it and produce it. The truth is, I don't believe acting is an art ir the sense that 1t Is something you can de, scribe or tell about how it Is done. Art 1: