Wallace Reid : his life story as related by his mother (1923)

Record Details:

Title:
Wallace Reid : his life story as related by his mother
Date:
1923
Publisher:
New York : Sorg Publishing Company
Volume:
Wallace Reid : his life story as related by his mother
Leaf #:
00098
Language:
English
Subjects:
Motion Pictures, Motion pictures--Biography
Collection:
Books
Format:
Books
Contributor:
Niles Essanay Silent Film Museum
Sponsor:
Media History Digital Library
Coordinator:
Media History Digital Library
Description:
Date Added:
December 28, 2023
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74 WALLACE REID There was a Christmas dinner with guests. But as they were all strangers to me, I can only remember Wanda Hawley and husband, because she was so wonderful to me throughout my stay. They were frequent callers, for Wanda is a fine musician and her husband played pool and golf and went hunting with Wallace, of which sports, with polo, Wallace was very fond. Another guest was Adela Rodgers (Mrs. St. John) who was very clever, having a daily article in the Hearst paper there, the Los Angeles Examiner, a warm friend of Dorothy's and a remarkably bright young woman. During the day, packages arrived, — Christmas gifts done up in fancy boxes, tissue paper, Santa Claus stickers, holly and ribbons, — just the same as any where else in the country. Friends dropped in in the evening and chatted, sang and played, and told about their presents, — told who were ill and who were spending the holidays in the country, very much as they would in Ocean Grove, New Jersey, or Evanston, Illinois. Most of them had been to the church of his or her respective faith in the morning. They talked children and knitting and golf and moving pictures, and altogether it struck me as almost dull. Wallace loved cars, as you all know. He struggled so earnestly and so patiently to be granted a racing driver's license. It came. Wallace was so pleased and so happy that he wore the pin night as well as day, for it was the dearest wish of his heart to enter the auto races at Indianapolis the following summer.