WILD PARTIES AT GAY HOLLWOOD

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 164, 1 October 1927, Page 23 (Supplement)

WILD PARTIES AT GAY HOLLWOOD

DEATH RESULTS MORALS OF MOVIE CITY Writing to the “Daily Mail” from Hollywood, a correspondent says that two recent murder trials that have been proceeding in connection with the deaths of cinema actors “seem to show that conditions at Hollywood have not much improved since earlier notorious cases.” Paul Kelly, a film “juvenile,” was charged with responsibility for the death of Ray Raymond, another film actor, with whom he is alleged to have had a fight with fists as the result of a quarrel arising out of the attentions Kelly is said to have been paying to Raymond’s wife, the film actress Dorothy Maekaye. Raymond died in hospital following the fight. In the second trial, Mrs. Kerrick and others were charged in connection with the death of Tom Kerrick, the cowboy actor, who was shot at a “moonshine party” at his home six weeks ago, because, according to some of the witnesses, he refused a cup of coffee from his wife and accepted a glass of gin from Miss Burns, a film actress, who was one of the guests. The jury in the Raymond case have

not yet reached a verdict, but in the Kerrick case the jury found Mrs. Kerrick, Miss Burns, and three others who were at the party guilty of manslaughter.