STAGE ROMANCE.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 17345, 18 July 1924, Page 11

STAGE ROMANCE.

ETON BOY’S LOVE FOR CHILD ACTRESS. (Special to the “Star.”) LONDON, June 5. As an Eton boy in the audience at Drury Lane twelve years ago Mr David Horne fell in love with Miss Renee Meyer, the child actress —and now they are to be married “ somewhere iu London ” next week. “ AVhen David first saw me,” said Miss Meyer to a “ Daily Chronicle ” representative last- nigbG, “ he was a boy of fourteen and T an infant prodigy on the stage playing in Christmas pantomime. Next Christmas he was sitting in the stalls again. So it went on for several Christmases, and he began to write to me and to ask for my photograph. I never answered his letters. During the war David became an officer of the Grenadier Guards, «nd wavs badly wounded in France. FIRST MEETING. “ AY© 'met face-to-face for the first time ten years ago. I was playing at the Colisseum, and on a Friday evening a party of friends introduced a young man to me. His face seemed familiar, but. it was not until I got home that I recalled the Eton boy who used to write to me. When we# met again £ charged him with it, and he admitted it laughingly, and said ho had .seen me play at the Coliseum on Monday, Tuesday, A\ r ednesdav and Thursday. “'Three years later he proposed. Mv answer was, ‘You may try again when Tam twenty-three.’ lam now twentythree—and the rest you know.”