The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-02-25
Clever Little Sydney Reynolds Tells Dolly About
 Her Stage Work and Her Dramatic Ambitions
By DOLLY DALRYMPLE

Along in the lovely springtime of the year when flower gardens are a-bloom with panses "a asmling at you from their saucy little faces, and crimson geranums nod and beckon to you as you pass along the wayside, and you fairly pine for arms full of roses from some rosebush laden with beauties; yes, along in the lovely springtime of the year these things make you feel as if there's nothing so beautiful in all the wide, wide world as just gar dens of flowers.
 I'd been trying to think of something in the way of simile yesterday morning all during my y7chat with lovely little Syd- ney Reynolds that would do justice to this charming child; I ransacked my memory for a comparison and fell flat down on the job; then suddenly I said to my self
 Yes, that's what little Sydney Key holds, with her wonderful hair and fair skin and wide-eyed sweetness and inno- cence reminds me of; those punches of roses and pansies and geraniums and flowers in the springtime gardens; deli cate and fragile, all pink and white, that Sne IS ana not QulLG SOllUlN real, except when you've talked to the child and seen her without the grease, paint and the makeup" and realize how truly re- markable she is.
 I remember back in the days that we had in our big flower garden bed of tea roses, growing in the midst of broad, smooth sward; of course, this isn't 1f ATal1 Tyrt, -laI-fc stuff" but really little Sydney Reynolds is mighty reminiscent of that little bed of tea roses that I used to love so well.
 You see this child is only Is; the young est little creature you ever saw; just think how young! And she hasn't had the peach blow rubbed off yet, because she's very new to the stage and when you see her in the clever little skit, "The Moonlight Age" you feel exactly as if the director had reached right over the high wall surrounding some big semi nary for girls and snatched away the prettest and most attractive girl in school while they were all studying their Latin or learning how to make crazy quilts out of cigarette coupons.
 Yes, the dew of youth is still upon this pretty child; she hasn't grown up yet; she is just unfolding like one of those pale pink tea roses I told you about, in the garden I loved; she sparkles and shines and seintilates, and with her won derful boise reminds you of the fact that although young in years, she is wise in theatrical experience.
 There is so much rant and roar on the stage today that when you plant dimu- nitive little girl of this particular calibre right in the midst of it all, frank com parison is inevitable, and you can't help saying over and over again:
 What a wonderful child"
 Just as Ethel Barrymore stands out from among the others, little Sydney Reynolds rises above the chatter and noise; she's a whole lot in a little package it's a case of quality, rather than quantity.
 Little Sydney Reynolds is just an em- bryo star; sweet child who is still un- spoiled by the administration and success she has had and when I told her that I hoped she'd never realize just how de- lightful she is, for as soon that hap pens the charm goes; she said in the most unaffected way:
 q shant ever be spoiled; at least, I hope not; that would be very dreadful"
 "Tell me something about yourself" I asked and your stage career?"
 Tt all goes back to the time when was oh ever so little and lived in Louisville and went to dancing school and used to dance in various enter