Evening star., 1924-08-18
M'C0Y FURNISHES !.
CHARACTER PUZZLE
Did Romance of Hollywood
Drive Him Insane? Film.
World Asks.
BY Consolidated Press.

BY Consolidated Press.
LOS ANGELES, August 1s-Did the
romantic insanity of Hollywood life tear
at the fabric of. kid" McCoy's brain?
Was Norman Selby, sheik of the Lasky
studio. Immediately groomed satanical-
ly handsome, driven to insane heights as
the elimination of romantic life that
often bordered on madness in his daring
exploits?
If you would know the reason. per-
haps, that Mccoy, or Selby. faces a
charge Of having murdered Mrs. Teresa
Mors, consider these facts:
Idol OF Hollywood.
THE Kid" became the idol of Holly
wood feminity soon after he played the
part of the LimenouSe Tiger in David
Wark Griffith's screen classic, Broken
Blossoms" Lasky signed him up. He
played in half a dozen pictures and lived
in Hollywood. immediately he bios
somed out in handsome deep-blue,
nickeled touring cara low-riding, soft
purring car.
There was always new girl with
him. Always one a little more beautiful
than the other. causing every one to
wonder. Once rumor had Mccoy en-
gagged to marry a famous movie actress
1t would not do to mention her name
now. Then he married Dagmar Dalgren.
internationally known beauty. pianist
and dancer, a former pupil Of Isadora
Duncan.
The romance lasted for three
weeks. They Were separated. Nc
Coy had always been romantic and
now even this exquisite girl could
not match his dreams. What was
wrong? Dagmar says the Kid often
acted strangely and seemed pre-
possessed and darkly melancholy.
Suddenly he left her. for no apparent
reason whatever.
Was "WOnderfulIy Kind"
"The Kid had been wonderfully
kind" Dagmar told her friends, but
he left and he would not even write
to me-"
The stories told in Hollywood OF
Norman Selby's love conquests tar
surpass any accounts of his achieve
ments in the ring. They are worthy
of the tales told by Radicals. Casa
nova, Cellini Balzac and DE Maupas
SAINT. He was always vital always
magnetic. Perhaps no one but Dag
mar Dalgren, who rallied to his de-
fense as soon as she heard that he
was suspected of the murder, can
describe so accurately his erratIc
temperament, his fierce romanclng.
He was a terrible and wonderful
man in love" is all Dagmar can say.
nevertheless.
Hard to Resist.
Kid" Mccoy possessed OF super
vitality-a complete man, he might
be called-thundered like centaur
over the world seeking his pleasures.
An abysmal brute with the sleek sur
face of ii gentleman; women WITH
whom he came in contact seemingly
found it hard to resist the combina-
tion.
That Mccoy was psychopathicaIly
romantic is the theory advanced today
in Los Angeles. Even the newsboys
bawl out: "All about Kid Mccoy, the
crazy lover. All about the Mors mur-
, der And this theory is no. without
foundation. For instance. the framed
photograph placed in Teresa Mors'
hand. the dying kiss, belong to the pic
ture. For all men kill the thing they
love"
Probably Doesn't Know.
Will Kid Mccoy ever tell the true
story of how Mrs. Mors died? Hardly
The Kid. the romantic Kid, probably
doesn't know the true story of that
tragic last scene in the violet-tinted
apartment.
Were the romantic pre-dispositions
of years heightened to a frenzy by the
colorful life of the studios in Holly
wood? Was the man who had married
eight times keyed to his deed by the
rich atmosphere of the Mors antique
shop. keyed to an ideal of super
romance. beyond that of the old Broad
way in the days when he was a middle
weight champion of the world, beyond
his amours with nobility in Europe?
Or, after all, is the Kids story true? ?
Is he what he appeared to be in the
district attorneys office. today, jaded
Cyrano de Bergerac, a aired satyr and
old man of 81, who finally found mel
lowed love, only to have it slip away
into the grasp of the beloved's self
inflicted death?
Did the erstwhile Mrs. Mors shoot
herself because she was deSpondent
that the idol of Hollywood was to be
parted from her by the iron hand of
poverty when her divorced husband S
lawyers tied up her funds.
Even the insanely romantic-or ro-
mantically insane-kid may never
know.