Frances Reid, one of daytime television’s most enduring performers, who played the family matriarch Alice Horton on the soap opera “Days of Our Lives” for more than 40 years, died Wednesday in Beverly Hills, Calif. She was 95. Ms. Reid, who had a long history in the theater and on television behind her, took the role in “Days” somewhat reluctantly, she said in interviews, but agreed to it because roles of any kind for actresses in middle age were rare. She began with the show’s first episode in 1965 and stayed long enough in the role for Alice to become...