Talk:Lydia Lopokova

16k Pounds/Month?

"she accepted an American offer of ₤16,000 per month" That doesn't make sense. Was she really offered that much money and why in British ₤ instead of dollars. That was a staggering sum of money back then. Even after WW2 a Pound was a good weeks wage. ₤16 a month was a very good salary. 68.215.94.87 (talk) 21:39, 29 April 2011 (UTC)David

the reference is obviously a mistake: her 2008 biography says she was paid 18,000 francs a month which was £13,000 by "today's" - i.e. 2008 - prices. I will correct the article to reflect this.Timetocheck (talk) 12:11, 30 April 2021 (UTC)

Various questions

• Do we know when and why she changed from Lopukhova to Lopokova?
• Was the reference to “Lapopka” a correct quote? If so, we need to insert a [sic]. If not, we need to fix the spelling.
• Was 21 October 1892 in the Gregorian or the Julian calendar? -- Jack of Oz ^{[your turn]} 22:24, 3 September 2011 (UTC)

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Birthdate/Broun

• Birthdate. I've changed to 1891 from 1892 in line with her 2008 published biography. Earlier sources claiming 1892 (e.g. obituaries) probably reflect the fact that a year was knocked off her age by Diaghilev/Ballets Russes. Should add explanatory sentence to article?
• Removed reference to Heywood Broun as her partner from the infobox - inappropriate for brief relationship.
• There's too much about Broun in the text of the article, given it was a minor episode. It might be more appropriate to move this to the article about Broun himself (where Lopokova currently not mentioned), especially as the reference is from a book about baseball? Timetocheck (talk) 11:19, 30 April 2021 (UTC)

Elucidate, please

A fortnight into the honeymoon they were briefly visited by the philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein. Lydia remarked to Wittgenstein "What a beautiful tree", Wittgenstein responded glaringly asking "what do you mean?" which caused Lydia to burst into tears.

Too obscure altogether. Could we have some idea what they were talking about? Valetude (talk) 21:15, 15 August 2022 (UTC)