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Dickey County Leader, Ellendale, ND, 13 March 1913
BEAUTY DIES OF STARVATION
New York - Many actors and actresses stood with bowed heads on the sidewalk in front of an Eighth Avenue undertaking establishment recently as the coffin containing Lillian Lorraine Hollis, known as "the child of tragedy", was borne out to the hearse which conveyed it to a cemetery.
"Here ends the career of the girl whom California proclaimed twenty two years ago as its most beautiful product", soliloquized Albert Curtis, an old time stock company actor. "In a voting contest conducted by several California newspapers in 1892, Miss Hollis was proclaimed the prettiest woman of the Pacific Coast."
When her body was found in a little furnished room at No. 223 West Forty-Ninth Street it seemed drawn and sallow. The beauty of 20 years ago had faded.
A score of cats were slinking about the room. Among them was Charley known to every theater almost throughout the United States because Miss Hollis always insisted on this big ugly cat accompanying her.
How long Miss Hollis had been dead is not known. The physician said it was inanition and lack of nourishment. Others used the plain word starvation.
Her greatest affluence was attained when she owned a company of her own, but this soon faile. Her last marriage is said to be to a man named Andrew Hynes.
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