THE MORNING OREGONIAN, TUESDAY, MARCH 21, 192S
HDLYWOOD ORGIES
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Stars, Vamps and Narcotics
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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
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. 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.
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TO-NIGHT'S PROGRAMME
6 to 8 and 8:30 to 11 :30
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S C. J. Robinson
2 "Thousand nd One Night." s
waltz John Strauss
3 "A p p 1 e Blossom." selec-
S tion Kreisler and Jacoby
4 "California." fox trot 5
........ Conrad and Frend
5 Sextette. "Lucia de Lam-
mermoor" Donizetti
6 "La Boheme"
. Puccini
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7 "B a k e r's Boy and
Chimney - Sweep".. .
......... ..Victor Herbert
S "Drifting"
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ilver Pumps Brocaded silver
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Silk Handbags Novelty hand
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Spanish Lace Shawls How 'ap
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Pearl Necklaces An extensive
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Spanish Combs A new collec
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Silk Hosiery New full-fashioned
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White Kid Gloves Direct im
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Evening Gowns A limited num- .
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evening wraps gorgeous creations
to be disposed of for less, much
less, than the actual cost of making.
Selection, can be made today on
the .third floor. . . ,
Taffeta
Crepe Roma ...
Crepe de Chine
Canton Crepe
Poiret Twill
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Here are dresses designed according to the latest decrees of Fashion the new full
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They're Exclusively at This Store in Portland
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Exquisite,' New Model Hats
The choice of a hat is a matter of so
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shapes that are delightfully trimmed with
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plenty of hats in black.
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