The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1923-01-02
BIG SHAKEUP PROMISED
IN THE LAND OF MOVIES
THE PLANS OF WILL HAYES
STIR NIGHTLY THE COLO
NY AT HOLLYWOOD.
VICE AND DOPE RINGS LIMITED
One of Biggest Men in Film World
Is Alleged to Have Put "Wally"
Reid on Poppy Path" Drugs and
Liquor Are Plentiful.

Is Alleged to Have Put "Wally"
Reid on Poppy Path" Drugs and
Liquor Are Plentiful.
LOS ANGELES, Calvin Hays,
screen Gear of the movies" rushed
excitedly into the maze of revelations
growing out of the Wallace Reid case
today, shouting, "You bet I'll take
action"
Wallace Reid, the brilliant movie
Hstar, ruined by years of morphine and
whisky, taken in wild carousals in
many a modest appearing Hollywood
home, may be the means of bringing
the long awaited "clean up of the
movies"
With an emphatic smash Of his fist
against his open palm, Hayes declared
he was going to inquire into the sto-
ries of the dope ring in the movie col-
ony.
Then he dug his heel into the carpet
the interview was held in his room
at the Ambassador.
"I'1l crush this dope ring if there is
a dope ring like | would crush a Vi
per-" he declared. Rather he shouted
He caught the astonished reporter
by the neck.
Not Morals Critic.
eff rattlesnake reared up at you,"
he demanded, wouldn't you strangle
it?"
He grew caimer presently.
!. 41or1,.n-I,f.vO H.
went on. my job is to weld the NOV
ing picture industry into a peaceful,
prosperous unite make a happy
/ am not the criterion of public or
private morals.
IF this evil exists, the duty of
stamping it out rests with the district
attorney, with the police and the city
administration and the business men
of Los Angeles. They are called upon
to cope with such conditions. For me
to attack violations of the law would
be butting in, in that respect.
To Make Industry Clean.
Butt am concerned with the well
fare of motion pictures. That is the
job I am filling. And | will bend ev-
cry possible effort to make the indus
try as clean, wholesome and happy as
possible"
Hayes attempted during the course
of the afternoon to get into commune
cation with Jess Lasky, head Of the
Famous Players-Lasky organization,
which employed Wallace Reid. Lasky
finally phoned Hayes at the Ambassa-
dor and said he would refuse to issue
statement regarding the stricken ac-
tor.
"Reid is a poor, sick boy" Hayes
said as the interviewer left. Il hope
he wins back his health"
The fact that Will H. Hayes is maxi
ing an investigation has caused much
apprehension in the movie colony.
1t is predicted that complete
shake-up is in store for movie land:
1t is limited that Mr.. Hayes may find
that more than one OF the big men
with whom he has been comforting
on the uplift of the moving picture
business are as rotten as some OF the
stars whose contracts the producers
seek to break
Hayes was told today that one of
the biggest men in the film world is
the man who creased the skids for
''Wally" Reid, is the very one who
first started the idol on the poppy
path.
A Man With an Urge.
1t was just at the time the head of
the Moving Picture Producers Asso-
citation was preparing to go into a
conference with leading producers.
Il can hardly believe it." he said.
why, this man has been apparently
cooperating with me in the effort to
clean up the industry, to make clean
err and better pictures. 1t isn't reason
able 1t can't be-"
Hayes was told, it is said, this big
man with the urge for cleaner pictures
made use Of "Wally's" popularity, en-
couraged him III rounding up the pref
ty girls necessary for. the staging Of
wild parties in many a rose covered
bungalow in Hollywood or Laurel
canyon.
It was at one Of these wild de-
bauches, where the drugs and the hq-
uor were plentiful, that the great star
was introduced to the drug which in
a few years has dragged him down
to physical, financial and moral ruin.