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Show mvm MOVIE MM MYSTERY Florence Deshon Expires After Her Removal to Hospital (International News Service) new rORK, rob- a. Another aen- .itirm of the motion picture world developed tonight In tlie death of Miss Florence Dashon, beautiful movie actress, ac-tress, who at one time whs reported engaged to marry Charlie Chaplin. I Authorities are Investigating tho case The young actress, who formerly was a well known member of the Hollywood Holly-wood Mm colony, died this afternoon ,,t st Vincent's hospital, where she was removed Friday night after being found unconscious in a bedroom of her apartment Gas was escaping from the room where she lay when friends forced entrance to the apart-j ment At the hospital it was .stated J It had not been determined whether, death was due to gas poisoning or; an overdose of medicine. In heroic effort to save her llf-. Max Eastman, noted radical lender and editor of The liberator submitted to a blood transfusion operation. mi KKI I RUMORED According io residents of Greenwich village Jind to persons familiar with the affairs Of the actress, and East-; man. the pair had been unusually and remarkably friendly with each other since Eastman separated from his wife. Ida Rush, an actress, who is said to be in N'-v Mexico suing for divorce. Friends refused to discuss rumors that Miss Deshon and Eastman had quarrelled seriously Eastman, it was learned, was one of the first to be summoned to the hospital and appeared to be greatly disturbed. He was at heir bedside when she died and was on the verge of collapse when he departed from the hospital. I Charlie Chaplin became an ardent admirer of the young actress soon after her debut in the Hollywood film colony as a featured player with tho Goldwyn company. Through her he met Eastman in Nw York and the comedian and radi-cul radi-cul leader later became close friends. The romance between Chaplin and the actress came to an end. but, according ac-cording to gossip it caused an estrangement estrange-ment between Ml- I 'eshon and Eant-man Eant-man which was never wholly healed. 1 BED Sid l PING POl lOJi Friends, insisting that the young woman had no motive for suicide, declared de-clared she was in the hatiit of taking 8 sleeping potion They nay If she took an overdose it was by accident. Those questioned by tho city medical medi-cal examiner presented the theory that while half asleep she accidentally turned on tho pas. Sho was found in her bed partially undressed. How long she had lain there unconscious, no one knows Tenants in the house had not seen her since tho previous night and. according ac-cording to them, she had not appeared appear-ed in the morning, as was her wont, to receive her mail and newspaper. The maid who cleaned her apartment apart-ment reported the door locked when she cams -i herausual hour. The apartment is on the third floor at 160 West Eleventh street. It be-longs be-longs to Mrs. Dudley Field Malone. who was formerly Miss Doris Stevens, a friend of both Miss Deshon and Max Eastman. The Malones are now In Europe Eu-rope on their honeymoon and the apartment was sublet to Miss Deshon during their absence. The dead actress was about 20 years of age. Her dark statuesque beauty made her a favorite moving picture type She made her moving picture debut in Beach's "Auction Block" For a long period she was a featured featur-ed player with Vltagraph and made rapid success- She had returned from Hollywood only a short lime afto She appeared there in Gbldwyn and Fox productions She had also enjoyed a successful career on the stage. She had expected to return to the stage in a now Broadway Broad-way production. |