THE MORNING OREGONIAN, TUESDAY, MARCH 21, 192S HDLYWOOD ORGIES GIRL ACCUSED OF BEING "GHOST" OF ANTIGONISH. o il Motion Picture Center Only Pretty, Staid Suburb. GAY NIGHT LIFE LACKING Horrible Debauchery , of Screen Stars, Vamps and Narcotics Vendors Are Fabrications. O o IE f T il'- -V 18 1 1 nr - v hi g ' - j : 1 sli i Il II . ,-r4 , Jt - - IB B I W S ' H ill I If ryM JH ill- . X H ' , j il I 13 ' I - 'fc J" II ! BYLH. GREGORY. LOS ANGELKS, Cal., March 20.- (Special.) Hollywood is a sad and bitter disappointment' to the visitor from afar, seeing it for the first time. It always is disappointing to have high expectations dashed. And after feeding: on the brain-storm pabulum of hordes of "speeial cor respontfits" who have gone so minutely and intimately into details of Wie-'iniquitous "parties" and gay nlghUjte' of the motion picture folk, who. oold not expect to be thrilled In "HoAwood by something just a litt fcr jCeial in the way of thrills? So it is disappointing, in, place of a. walled city sacred to the rites of Bin, to find a thriving suburb of 70,000 persons, only about 5 per cent nf whom r connected even remotely with the picture business; To note paved streets, big business blocks and beautiful residences, fronted by green lawns in the shade of graceful palms; Needles and Vamps Missing. To walk the length of the main street without having anybody try to jab a needle into your arm; "Instead of narcotics peddlers thronging the sidewalks and beauti ful and indiscreet girls vamping from every corner, to see little chil dren going to school and such women as are on the street too busy or in different to spare you even a glance; To ask to have pointed out the places where the notorious "nigh parties" of picture stars are held, and to have citizens of whom you inquire look doubtful as to whether they shouldn't call a policeman; - Ana imaiiy, to meet some or tne picture folk themselves, and in place of the wicked, luring beauties of the correspondents' tales, and dissipated men madly waving needles at every intermission, to see plain, rathe matter-of-fact every-day sort of folk to vtiain being "in the movies" is just part of a day's hard work, and who hurry away at 5 o'clock to home and supper. Hollywood 9 o'clock Suburb. As for the night life of Hollywood reference . to that brings hoarse laughjer from the major part of the citizenry the minority, getting mad In the belief that you are trying to he funny. Hardly to be wondered that Hollywood is a little sensitive just now at 'mention of night life and parties. . "Why, man," said a drug store proprietor in Hollywood boulevard "there isn't as much night life In Hollywood as there is in Salem, Or. I mention Salem because I used to live there. This is a 9 o'clock suburb and always has been you even must know where to go to get a glass of soda pop after 10 o clock. "As for the parties of the movie queens, if they have 'em, it must be somewhere else than in Hollywood Oh, there are some steppers in the movies, all right, just as they are druggists who evade the Volstead law and farmers who operate moon shine stills. But I know a good many moving picture people and those 1 know don't happen to be the steppers. Actors Staid as Factory Hands. "Most of them are as staid as fac tory hands, which in a measure they are, for after all the movie studios are motion picture factories and the persons who work before the camera are 'hands in the factories. "Most of my trade, in fact, is with motion picture people, but I can't see any difference- between them and anybody else. I do notice that the girls seem addicted to candy and chocolate creams, and that the men run to cigarettes and cigars and pipe tobacco, and that on warm days both sptas inrlulere freelv in ir.fi cream coda. A year ago I wouldn't have thought Anything about that, but now I don't know I suppose it is all evidence of depraved tastes. As for 'night life, we couldn't sell enough goods after 10 o'clock to pay for the lights, so we close up." But hold! There is a night life in Hollywood. It centers in John's restaurant at 6754 Hollywood boule vard, a few doors off Highland ave nue. "John's Cafe" is its official title, blazoned in electric letters above the sidewalk, but it goes more generally by the ribald title of "John's place." John's place is an all-night eating house, the only one in Hollywood. Midnight Orgies Frightful. Here, in the late hours when ministers and other righteous folk are in bed, come motion picture people to indulge in weird orgies. On high etools along a counter with a top of brown concrete, many a staT perches at the unearthly hour of 11 or 12 o'clock and buries his nose . lniquitously into a bowl of beans and chili sauce. It is even eaid, and not denied, that there frequently are mixed parties of movie folk at John's place. It must be true, for besides the concrete counter for men only, John also has tables where "ladies and their es- ems' mow hflhoifn Pnnlrlnoc ir or t hai f ease. The tables are there some body must use them. At & cost of 40 cents for soup and! spaghetti, Italian style, I tested the wicked possibilities of John's place. From the vantage place of that stool it was no trick at all to see Tom Moore or Rudolph Valentino, or any desired star, vault onto another stool and shout; "John, a bowl of chili and make it d- d hot!" . Debauchery Lurks in Beans. The surprising thing is that none of the special correspondents ever drew a word picture of Douglas Fair banks leering into his bowl as he tears into his beans in short, snappy bites and cries: "John, I may bring a lady to one of these here tables tomorrow night. Be. cursedly sure you put plenty of pepper in them beans." One man to whom I mentioned the omission of John's place from the scandal tales of Hollywood saidit didn't surprise him a bit, ." "The reason it doesn't surprise me," he explained, "is that none of the bright young men who have peddled these stories about the wickedness of Hollywood and the moving picture people ever came out to Hollywood or visited the studios, or made in telligent inquiry to find out. I don't suppose one of them even knows of the existence of John's place. "These stories about Hollywood and the depravity of the movies were not based on investigation. They i . Photo from Underwood. MARY ELLE.X MacDOXALD. i There was no ghost at the "haunted" MacDonald house at Caledonia Mills. Dr. Walter E. Prince, acting director of the American Society for Psychical Research, declared in a report from Halifax last week after a week's inves tigation. According to the reports, the mysterious fires in the MacDonald farmhouse were st by human hands. The knots tied in the tails of cattle were put there by the same hands. And the slapping of persons in the house by . unseen hands was imagined. Mary Ellen MacDonald, the 15-year-old foster-daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Alex MacDonald, is said by Dr. Prince to be the "ghost" that drove the MacDonald family from their lonely farmhouse in Caledonian Mills. were written in large part out of whole cloth. For some of the in sinuating stories about unnamed in dividuals there was a slight basis of gossip. , Stories will be told about any person who is before the public as much as is a motion picture actor, and everybody knows how even the most innocent tale becomes twisted and exaggerated and given an evil meaning as it passes from mouth to mouth. Fiction Peddled as Truth. "These fly-by-night writers there are many irresponsible correspondents in Los Angeles who pick up a living by grabbing scandal and 'selling it to newspapers in far parts of the country at space rates snapped up every luscious morsel they could find and sold it over the wires as gospel truth. The Taylor- murder provided the public interest, and nothing was too, far-fetched, too improbable, too fictitious for them to seize and peddle always at space rates. 'It was significant that no names ever were mentioned in these stories, and that every one of them was a ass of innuendo. The writers knew that had names been mentioned they would have been swamped with libel Hollywood. As a matter of fact, Hollywood, no longer a separate corporation but now a part of Los Angeles, is one of the choice resi dence districts of that big city. Many Studios Elsewhere. There are several motion picture studios in Hollywood, and ma.ny of the stars and players live there, but many other studios are not in Holly wood at all and many of the actors live elsewhere. It will be a further shock to the scandal enthusiasts to learn that Fatty Arbuckle's home, scene of his alleged wild parties, was far from Hollywood. Fatty worked at. the Mack Sennett studio in Hollywood, but his home was many miles away from there in the West avenue district. And as for William Desmond Taylor, whose murder two months ago still is the talk of Los Angeles, a seemingly never-exhausted source of theory and counter-theory, of wild surmise and scare headlines, and dumb work by the police, likewise was not in Hollywood. The house where Taylor lived and where an assassin's bullet shot him down is in the Wilshire section of Los Angeles, suits. But their innuendo stories i a fashionable residence section miles were hard to combat, for they were such a hodgepodge of miscellaneous falsehood that it was impossible to answer them." Investigation Is Courted. That, in short, is Hollywood's plaint. Both Hollywood and the motion picture industry say they court investigation, but complain that the scandal mongers never in vestigated anything. The visitor to Hollywood finds all concerned ready even eager to open doors to him, to answer questions, to give him a free hand to look about, if he desires, for himself. And here it should be remarked that the mass of stuff written about Hollywood and the constant repeti tion of its name in articles about the William Desmond Taylor murder, the Arbuckle Case and other and sundry scandals, have given a wrong per spective on Hollywood itself. Long before there, was a moving i picture industry there was a town of from Hollywood. Natural was Rates Upheld. WASHINGTON, D. C, March 20. The state of Oklahoma can regulate the price of natural gas according to the pressure under which it is supplied, the supreme eourt held in a decision handed down today. Best grades or coal, well screened. Diamond Coal Co Bdwy 3037. Adv. They come to stay The trying out of Heinz Baked Beans for the first time is quite an event in the home. Be cause Heinz Baked Beans always come to stay. So appetizing, so good, so satisfying. HEINZ OVEN BAKED BEANS with Tomato Sauce iMmuiiimmiiiiiimimmmimiiiiiiini Hazelwood 1 1 Orchestra 1 J. F. N. Colburn, Director. 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