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...Great Britain; Federal Judge Learned Hand; William H. Johnston, President of the International Association of Machinists; Nathan L. Miller, recent Governor of New York; Henry L. Stimson, former Secretary of War; Melville E. Stone, of the Associated Press; Mrs. Gifford Pinchot, wife of the Governor of Pennsylvania; Mrs. Ogden Reid, wife of the publisher of the New York Tribune; Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt, wife of the former Assistant Secretary of the Navy; Mrs. Frank A. Vanderlip, wife of the retired banker...
This thesis might be set down as film fatuity and the picture destined simply as another flyblown feature, if it were not for the name of WALLACE REID woven in lurid letters throughout its manufacture. Wallace Reid, screen star, died last Fall from the effects of a drug habit contracted among the noisome swamps of Hollywood Society. Human Wreckage is produced by " The Los Angeles Anti-Narcotic League " as the moral epitaph to round out the cheerless fable of Reid's death. Mrs. Wallace Reid is the production's star...
...Wallace Reid was, in, his own manner, an artist. Certainly there are few to dispute the statement that he was a cardinal leader of effective entertainment. Accordingly his wife and the Los Angeles Anti-Narcotic League might have spared his memory the fitful fever of an opiate post mortem. Each Human Wreckage witness will take back to the salesdesk, the farm or the schoolroom a graven imprint of Reid the addict-not the actor...
...word for Mrs. Reid. Seeing the film, one can hardly question her sincerity. She probably believes she has chosen a path where others may see her walking and heed the solitary figure as a warning. Yet her advisers all along have dressed the proceeding with most offensive taste. The strident commercialism of their advertising thrusts the bitter story on every billboard in the country. At the New York opening was included the " dance of the Addicts "; a group of figures writhed and postured under lights of ghastly green, adding a final touch that seemed almost to turn again the turf...
Sunday evening Mrs. Reid delivered a dignified talk on the narcotic situation from the pulpit of a Methodist church in the Bronx. A large crowd-" composed partly of curiosity seekers...