| |
| | Wallace Reid - Silent Star of December, 1997 |
 | | Wallace Reid might have made the perfect F. Scott Fitzgerald character, a Dick Diver or even a Gatsby, an eighteen-karat-gold Princeton man -- flaming, gentle, beautiful, and doomed. |
 | | Wallace Reid was born into a theatrical family in St. Louis, Missouri, on April 15, 1891, son of actor and playwright Hal Reid. |
 | | Reid's influence was such that, after appearing in a film in 1922 without the stiff, detachable collar that most men wore with their shirts, he single-handedly put the collar companies out of business overnight. |
| www.csse.monash.edu.au /~pringle/silent/ssotm/Dec97 (867 words) |
|