The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-01-19
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NOT YET
TOLD OF
Loss
Funeral VIII Include joint
Services BY Episcopal
Church and ElIss.
BY

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Thus In death did the Play boy
Of the movies win victory.
They were the last words OF
Wallace Reid, stricken motion pic
ture star, uttered to his wife, Dor
othy Davenport, during the last
moments of consciousness before
the coma which ended in death
late yesterday had enveloped him.
Studio World Sorrows.
He referred to his battle against
drugs. His last conscious thoughts
were that his friends should know
that even in death he had won.
Funeral services will be at an
Episcopal church tomorrow, with
joint services by the Episcopal
church and Elks Lodge, No. go. OF
which Reid was member. The
exact hour will be announced later
All Hollywood studios win be closed
tomorrow
Today Mrs. Reid faces another
great ordeal, that of telling little
Billy, the actors son, and Betty.
their adopted daughter, that their
father is dead. News of his death
was kept from the children. While
their mother wept in her room last
night they played and talked of the
day when daddy would come hack
to them.
The studio world that knew Reid
as a friend and companion and
the film-loving public that delighted
In Reds effervescent portrayal of
youth in kerosene roles joined in
sorrowing today over his passing.
Messages of sympathy poured into
the Reid home. where Dorothy
Davenport, his wife, was in a vir-
tual state of collapse as result of
her overpowering grief, and from
the strain of the months long vigil
she had kept with Wally in aiding
him in his fight first against drugs
and then to regain his health. The
messages came from stars and fans
alike-many from Europe.
Carl LaemmIe, president OF Uni-
versal. with which Wally worked In
the early days, telegraphed:
1.-THE motion pictures are suffer
ing a great loss"
This is one of the saddest things
I have ever known" said Theodore
Roberts, who had appeared as
Wally's irascible father in countless
pictures, and between whom had
sprung up an affection almost like
father and son. 81 have known
Wally since he was two years
then a little blonde-haired baby just
learning to prattle and walk.
Among a host of friends have on
the other side, Wally is one of the
closest and best thought Of"
Mary Sends Condolences.
my heart goes out in sympathy
to the wife and mother of Wallace
Reid" said Mary Pickford. His
death is a great tragedy, because I
know he would have lived down
every mistake he made. He was a
charming boy with great genius.
His physician announced today
that. the direct cause of his death
was hypostatic congestion OF the
lungs and renal suppression which
developed a slow poisoning, which
caused death.
Mrs. Reid's friends expressed serl-
Gus concern for her condition today.
The love story OF dot Daven-
port and ''Wally" was more charm
ing and beautiful than any he ever
enacted on the screen. 1t was at
the Threshold OF success that their
romance came. Miss davenport
had already arrived" She came
to the movie and he was assigned
as her director. He fell IN love,
wooed her impetuously and won her
much in the same dashlng fashion