The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1914-01-22
Gem Theatre

The program at the Gem today is as
follows:
"The Cave Mems War" A Kalem
two reel feature of prehistoric days.
His tribe defeate after terrific battle
with the Cave Dwellers, Strong Arm,
Of the Shell people, discovers the bow
and arrow. IL brings victory and peace
to his tribe.
"a Sense of Humor." An Edison
comedy. Reggie. an English youth,
who has always dreamed Of killing
grizzlies, and fighting savages in the
States, finally sails for America. His
new found friends get up magnificent
Indian fight for him, in which he is de-
cidedly the victor.
"The Blue or the Gray" Biograph
drama, proving that love knows no
uniform.
Fridays and Saturdays bill includes
the following reels:
Quality of Mercy" A providentisl
parson. A Selig two reel special. The
young girl, palled by the lonliness of
the country, is infatuated by the good
looking city chap with winning ways.
She does not lose her pres sence Of mind
in the big city and dlmands real
wedding. The smooth man tells his
friend it is "a mere matter of form"
and to get anyone who looks the part
to officiate. The friend, man of hon.
or, gets regularly ordained minister
so that the knot is tied properly. The
city man, firing of his conquest, bluntly
tells her their marriage was mockery
and leaves her with a broken heart.
He and his friend are killed in an acci-
dent, so she thinks herself neither
welded nor wife. She meets and mar
ries a good man and the same parson
happens to officiate and relieves her
mind of its haunting shadow.
Little Kaintuck." A Vitagraph
drama. He finds friend. The little
waif repays his kindness 10 more ways
than one, and becomes his inseparable
companion.
"The Good Old Summer Time" A
Kalem comedy featuring John Brennan
and Ruth Roland. On the same reel,
"Scenes in England.
Sundays program consists of the
following:
Partners in Crime" A Lubin three
reel feature. Jansen and Dobley, wild
overs, are high class crooks. Their
children, Frank Dobley and Esther
Jansen, are sweethearts, but neither
knows of their fathers occupation.
Frank, who is in newspaper office, is
assigned to run down band of crooks
and joins forces with Andrews, de-
tective. Frank is caught by the band
and on the point of being killed by
bomb when he is rescued by Esther.
Again they trail the bandits and Dob
ley is captured by Andrews and sent to
prison. Jansen tells his daughter that
she can never marry the son Of a thief.
Dobley escapes, but is wounded. Frank
agrees to assist Andrews to capture
the rest of the gang. Esther learns
the truth and Jansen promises tolassist
the young people. While doing SO he is
shot by the police and the rest of the
band is caught. Frank goes to Esther's
home to tell her of the death ofiher
father and there finds his own father,
also dying.
"Dolars. -Pounds-Sense." An Es-
sanay comedy. Charles Watson's s
father threatened to disown him unless
he married and settled down. If he
married inside of 30 days he would
give his son 500 for every pound the
girl weighed. Tall ones, fat ones and
small ones were proposed TO without
success and when Watson. called a
widow, who weighed 2S8 pounds, on
the phone and proposed, be was disap-
pointed when he arrived at the house
and found he had proposed to the
daughter who weighed only So pounds.
Watson makes good and marries the
girl and his father gives him large
check regardless of the girls weight.