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Who's Yho on BroadwayAnd Off FRANK J. McGETTGAN deserted a big niche in the news paper jrorld to become manager of the Orpheum theatre. But he's made a big thing of that, too. Success as author assured by "The Wife Saver." . 9 r 'fyj.j. ' ' ... laWL':W '; A I . rY ' T-m' 1 "rnTte v U ig'r3 i Yank e es ' Take . v....... . ........ t .. . Dance Business From Parisians 1 (By CnfniMl Berries) . pAKIS, i Noy. - . Americana are .mo . nopolizlng the" danciag business in Faris, and in. their, latestf venture; which indudes the transformation of the fa mous Ice Palace Iff the Champ IHyBees Into a dance hall, they are stirrtnff up a scandal which threaten to involve the prefect, of the department, the prefect of police and the jfjovernlng body of the town.- . . . . . .-. . , - . . While Paris society has been as dance mad as that of any other large city.- the average Parisian, has .-never succumbed to the fascination of syncopated music : In fact, he has been distinctly opposed to It. Back of the innumerable vexatory measures which have hindered the de velopment of dance hall in Paris, was not only the personal disapproval of the prefect ' of police, but public opinion which would not tolerate dancing and its accompanying- display of luxury while so many peopletill suffer priva tions due to the war. . . ' '. Furthermore, the '.Parisian looks upon modern dancee as an exotic product of Importation, foreign, and therefore, anti French, i , ...... The , announcement that a building which "'belongs to the municipality of -Paris is to be turned into a dance hall by an American concern, has caused a' flood of protests from all sides. Investi gations are to be. undertaken. '.Why is the right j of exploitation given to an American i concern instead of a French. Who has been bought and who has been old? If Paris has to Sell her buildings to foreigners to run dance balls; - says the Action Francata, the royalist , paper, the sooner new municipal counsellers are elected thet better. : -- ' i , little Girl Has Part Miriam BatistaV who as the little crip pled girt won ; personal laurels .In "Humoresque,". appear" in the George Fitzmaurice production of "Money Mad" for Paramount. -.. ,...v Stefansson to Open ; Lyceum Course Here I At The Auditorium i Vilhjalmur ' Stefansson. ' Arctic ex plorer', is announced by Ellison-White as the opening attraction of the Port land lyceum course. He Is to speak at' t"he Auditorium November 12. Eight numbers will be presented during, the remainder of the ' winter and early spring, months. Ths dates are : Albert Undquest and : assisting - artists, re vember IJ ; ; Frederick Warde, Pecem ber IS " Josephine Martino and assist ing artists, January, C ; University of Oregon Glee club." January 28: Lincoln McConnell, February 9 ; Herbert Leon Cope, March 11. ' j .Both the Harry Letter Opera com pany and vice President Thomas R. Marshall : will be presented some - time in April, the dates for these two num bers being indefinite. - . -,..-! tfational Theatre ; j At, Mexico City to Be Finished Soon ' I By tntemstionsl Hen SarHeer 1 . ! Mexico1 Clty.T Nov.N 9.Th great un flnlahed "marble- i-Iie standing. In- the center of the city like the ghost of the Dli regime, called the National thea tre, is to be finished, according to' plans of the government, which has $1,800,000 for the worki j :-, t The . buildins has : stood unused' for 10 years. It is said that one end has sunk four, feet below the original level. I A number of engineers and contract ing firms are trying . to get the work of finishing the building. They appar ently think that $1,800,000 will not be enough to finish the structure; as they want to. do the work on a percentage basis. ;-..:-".''.v--.i'r ; ; - ' . Efforts are also' being made by con tractors .to get the contract for the com pletion of the hall of congress. The bare, steel skeleton of the structure has -r By B. C. B. . Trobably Ben Selling doesn't know iC but it is his tault that Frank J. Me Gettlgan is manager of the Portland Or pheum theatre.-;, . , McGettigan, who is not French, was a perfectly proper Portland newspaperman 10 years, ago when he deserted the fourth estate to accept the. benefit of trwjueai pay cnecxa jrom iu Urpbeum folk as press agent. . t From that office it was, for McGetti gan at least, a short step to the man agerial roll top, ; before which he has been sitting, with his hat on, for some five years. The Orpheum manager got his start in life at Valejo, Cal., but he corrected that? as soon as he could safely leave the parental fireside and shortly entered upon a promising career as a Journal ist After many happy years on San Francisco and 1x58 Angeles papers Mc Gettigan 'was drawn to Portland and here he was found when the Orpheum needed a press agent to replace Mark Woodruff, who quit to concentrate his effort toward electing Ben Selling to the United States senate. That's how Selling comes to bear the burden of the blame for nipping in the bud a news paper, career. . The allegation that McGettigan wears ni nat in bed has never been proved, but he pleads guilty to. the authorship of "Hogan In London." which provided an entertaining Orpheum vehicle for Bert Leslie. Bert, once the "king of slang," is now in a -"hospital for the in sane. Draw your own conclusions. Aside from that little 'skit, though, McGettigan has written, since he be came a personage, on Broaway, The Wife Saver," and one other sketch. 'Th Wife Saver," as played oyer the Or4 pheum circuit by Franklin Ardell for three highly successful seasons, ' was characterized by critics as '"the great est laugh in vaudeville," without an exception. ., Goodness knows, there may be an other one like- It under that everlasting hat! ,.' ' r..: ' : ; The McGettigan family lives close to rthe field of harvest in a commodious, cosy apartment 'directly under the Or pheum balcony, as a matter of fact, and adjoining the quarters of other Heilig theatre folks. ' rean Francisco, in spite of the fact that Calif ornla people spell It "f-i-r-e," At that time McGettigan was on the staff of the San Francisco Bulletin, under Fremont Older, brilliant task " master, who"" used to Impress young writers whom he sent out for pictures for his paper, that failure to get a picture was synonymous with discharge. . . ; That exacting ; notion ' has ? not. re verted to th Portland show manager, but he does demand capable effort from show folks, from the artists to the box office girls. And he's a wisard at draw ing Crowds to his show shop, " weather or counter attractions notwithstanding. Meanwhile. Mr. Jeffrey, your orches tra might render; "Wtaere Did Tou Get That Hat?" . Peggy Joyce Loses Out With Third of Very Rich Hubbies (By tJaivenal Serric) - Xew York, Nov. 6. For cheery Peggy Hopkins, bright little star of "It Pays to Flirt" and other Broadway successes, husband - No. 3 is practically non existent. "And will No. 4 be "a French prince, aa Madame Rumor has it?" Pcrev un asked. But Peggy only pounded the silken bed quilts of her apartment and eriea, -iso. no, no!" Thfro worn himnra : ' VI DUIlta time that the former Ziegfeld Follies girl was at 6uta with her husband, but she denied It. These rumors were verified , when It came out that her husband, Stanley J. Joyce, Peggy's third millionaire husband, had pub lished a notice disclaiming all respon sibility for debts contracted -by his wife. Joyce is a Tale man and nw a Chi cago lumberman. They - were married in Miami. FUw last winter. It is un derstood that merry Peggy received as a wedding gift a $150,000 home and 150,000 In furnishings. She has been living In Paris alone for the last three months. '''; Goldwyn Reelected ; Head of Producing "Company He Formed Culver . City, CaL, Nov. ' 6.- Announce ment has .been made at the Goldwyn studios that F. J. Godsol had been elected chairman of the board of directors and that Samuel Goldwyn, who recently re signed, had been reelected ' president of the Goldwyn Pictures corporation. ! . When Abraham Xehr," Goldwyn 'vice president in charge of production! left for New York recently to confer i with home office - official . it , was predicted that important announcements would follow; A telegram from New ;York rto the head of the company . which he organised four years ago and with whose growth and - progress he has been so closely identified. ; i 1 WaUy Reed in a New One: ' Wallace Reid has started work at the Lasky studio at Hollywood on an adapta tion of "The Daughter of a Magnate," by Frank H. Spearman, which has been scenarlzed by Eugene B. Louis. He will soon be seen In "The Charm School." Tango Is Itfst Art Among Movie Supes Finding 50 couples who can, do the tano dance and who possess also a working knowTWge ' of French proved more difficult than Hex Ingram, who is directing Metro's picturization of "The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse," an ticipated. A' few yeaw ago the tango dance was the craze of Europe and America, but Ingram was compelled to call about 300 'persons before be -could get 100 who could perform the steps of this 'sinuous dance. 1 ' s 5UNDAT-1C0ME!-M0NI)AY NORMA TALMADGE IN "SHE LOVES AND LIES" Can a Man's Wife Be His Affinity With - out His Knowledge? Norma Talma dge takes the part of an old woman to win a husband, and the part of a young woman to hold him. ' You WiU Lilre This .THE LARRY SEMON in lE',The Stage Hand" Opea From f o'clock la the j Monlnsr Uitll o'Cloet the FoUowisy Moralag -. if1 i1 p , mm iwmni vj5' l xrri (i: , y ( Wplp ' " rW0tm ill VJ mi of the ! ! e 'bimai. t I M' -- arid the nexl. 1 - Ill o i..- ; .! - NOW PLAYIMC ' p towered in the air since the days of President XHas,' the revolutions having put a stop to publio works. - , - Children Praised Por Their Program The Coming Generation Dramatic club forged into attention at the Multnomah hotel a week ago when, under the direc tion of Miss Belle Williams, . the club produced an entertainment program and concluded with the sketch. "The Home' of Witchcraft"" Every child appeared ; creditably in the part assigned and es- -peclally did 'Donald Confrey score as 4Scafecrow.B ' switch" was Eleanor fraaler. The program was the first of a' series to be presented by th children who are being coached by Miss Williams. - " For the first time an Insurance policy has .been taken out on a horsa acting ( a movie., Vltagraph has protected Itseir to the extent of $30,000 on the animal , that; plays the , name part In "Black C Beauty.". . Today for 4 Days 5 Acts Vaudeville Hi . v . imRitrni .- I f ;k mm, 3$ your husband wild enMhf crsneite gay rascal ns made ifou believe VI tif not, do you. tkink he could pc ? ! jrse some cftkejfueslions Angelica ask herself BEDROOM 77 m, A O JDil JOJL STAI CAST Qom, the fiwms33rtaduaif Stage Comedy C.W. BELL and jMLARPv SWtV success btt SWAN - H nobil, town wd& 1 ,,hc ever, made? W SUM" z v'uTntft . ' from the famotr? BomcI : I -l y H.Hcrbcrt KnVbbSB' ; ' u.S!f-f ' . . . - - ; ' NOV PLAYING! 1 -: :.
