Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1916-01-23
f Newspapers and Tell Then,
e Love Story of a Dramatic Critic
0zeGy the Actress He Couldn't Cyifici

Is mite mighty in enticement Never
nave We But no; we'll set no time
limit on our opinion, for Julie herself
complains: These Yankees they say
only that: love you always, forever
Why not they say: love you-all this
week.
And SO until Tuesday, October -,
We VIII continue to maintain that Lydia
Lopokova is the most charming young
person who has trod the stage In New
YORK this season. But she did not
tread. She did not even walk. She
skipped, she danced. She pranced and
as Ike as not she never touched the
stage. Or so it seemed
We 1oonld rather sec Lydta LopoEopa
rise to her TN four feet sercn inches
on extended toes than 4Uotch t1oo hun
drea chorus girls climb to the roof OF
the Hippodrome on their rope ladders
If electric lights"
Miss Lopokova did not express her senti.
ments. The manager did
Lydia, you've got 10 meet the chap who
wrote that. It's good thing to keep on
the good side OF a fellow who's SO en-
thusiastic as that. The washington Square
llayers can stand boosts
so the meeting was arranged.
heywood Broun, the author Of this per.
lerNin criticism, was not given unduly to
sfatnitous praise. He had studied the
drama in Professor Bakers class Mt Uar
ward lie had ambitions regarding NAV
wiring himself He took himself and his
work with the greatest seriousness He
was Just twenty-eight. However, after
sitting through Miss Lopokova's perform.
ahcc' studying it with critical gravity and
ANALYTICAL discernment. he had gone away
ana INDUCED in a poetic, exuberant rhap-
sody. r
IL vas after a performance one night
Whrh me players had retired to n restau-
RAM next door to the Bandbox where they
toll ohn,,
aHu more material things that the actress
anu the critic met Miss I.opokoya. four
leel seven. rose and took the hand OF the
young hashful. serious critic, six feet three.
she looked AZ him coyly and gratefully
Ihat vas very nice which You wrote
ABOUT me- but do not think it was quite
MISS .opokova lived up to the principles
81 serious profession in not being what
me general public often consider actors
ana actresses eyre Siously selfconceited
VAN and DESTROYS of fiattery.
Mr. bronn was pleased by her sincerity
ana ana inodesy and the next day recorded
ms romantic meeting in his paper
why postpone telling the inevitable?
t hcy zen III love with each other In
lact VT. Hroun had fallen In love with
me mite mighty in enticcment" the first
hight ne sa" her. Was he partial in his
oEerpfoiuse' rhapsodical praise? Although
newspaper man and critic. he was human.
ana without question. believed all he wrote
OF the dancer who was learning To act.
or our brains accept what our hearts feel.
n"Hiuiiy Nj. Hroun continued to attend
iirst nlshls. and gravcly reported his YER
aic' on ne" plays. When she was not en-
sascd al lhc Eahdbox, he took Lydia Lopo-
hoVa with him, ana together they considered
inc merits OF productions. When she acted
20 her colleagues observed. Lydia per-
formed with an unwontcd spirit and fire
Whcn Haywood Broun pounded the type
Copyright. 1915. by tho Star Company.