Show Super r Movie Houses Replace Portland's Last Road Theater By BEN E. E TITUS United Press Pres Staff Correspondent PORTLAND Ore United Press This city of population metropolIs of a state SOon will be without a theatre regularly housing or 01 available for road shows for the first st time in more than a half haIr century cen- cen tury With Yit the of the famous Heilig theatre 5 scene ene of attractions for twenty years yeah troupers troup- troup ers will fInd themselves without a ahome ahome home here The The Heilig On New NewY Y Years d day y was converted into a. a Ya Jd house ot of the ten variety va- va True there tha-e are a number of movie theatres so built that upon short notice and with the purchase or of scenery props and necessary mechanical mechanical me- me devices could be converted into theatres and then too there Is the municipal auditorIum already so equipped which could be made available a but as far faras farns ns as a regular roa sh v house Ii is con concerned on- on it p gust t does not exi ti BUSINESS POOR of at was given as I the TC reason son for the rental ot of the Heilig to the vaudeville enterprISe And s radio aut and high railroad fares all come In for their share of the of the faIlure of the business here There re have been less than a dozen traveling shows this season as r a theatre town has been or years years Time there was the war when the Heilig Hei- Hei played to capacity ty houses on continuous continuous' seven night stands and when the Orpheum Keith vaudeville house pla played ed its full seven day weeks throughout the winter It was ryas first to suffer and moved into the Heilig for a four day week the remainder beIng devoted to traveling travelIng travel travel- Ing attractions Last year ear the Orpheum Orpheum Or- Or gave ave up the ghost and its talent skips Portland entirely A sporadic showing of traveling tra companies companies com com- continued listlessly MOVIES SPRUNG UP 1 movie houses of the super type sprang up all over th the downtown theatre dIstrIct and throughout the sprang up in such profusion in In fact that it has been rumored for a long time that the movie movle business is is' not good A number of the downtown theatres closed or changed to see ond run houses The Tho are I all sUll struggling along n using count country tore store nights nIght and all theother the theother other Ices devices to draw trade While the business Is Isabol abol shot however ho and while the movie mo business is far from JOg a a. stock company playing legitimate legitImate legit legit- drama featuring guest artists art art- uch as Leo Carrillo Is selling to capacity houses seven senn nights a week Henry Duffy DuCr an n actor who Tho went to San Francisco WIth a a. heart and a a. dolar a a. few years rears n ago o. o and who ho now no operates a string of theatres the the- atres in all the leading C coast dUes cities owns this theatre theatre the |