The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1918-04-25


and the revelations Of the strong pho
toplay has had its sting for the cohorts
of Prussianism. Numerous times have
attempts been made TO destroy the
films. playhouses where the picture
has been shown have been dynamited,
and the posters that have heralded the
picture have been torn down. pointing
out that the activities of the pro-hun
in this country must be watched out
for and guarded against.
The Beast of Berlin was presented
to thousands in Portland last week So
strong is the picture and SO graphic
are its descriptions that the people are
swept from their feet. Mr.. kolstad
brought the show here at the special
request of a number of Hood River
people who saw it in Portland. Mer-
chants and business men are cooperat-
ing with him in making the show a
success, and an endeavOr will be made
to show it to the people of White
Salmon, Mosier and Underwood during
the two days it is here.
Despite the increased accommoda-
tions Of the Liberty. the house will
likely be crowded at night perform
ances, and Mr.. kolstad requests all
who can do so view the picture at mat
inee performances.
The big Jewel production comes to
this city almost first among the cities
west Of the Rocky mountains, thanks
to the promptness of Mr. Kolstad N
booking it almost as soon as 1t reached
Portland.
The will back of Germany's war and
ruthlessness of German methods will
be brought home to citizens Of Hood
River as never before. At the same
time revolving scenes will not be con-
spicuOus. Audiences will see IN ter
rife review the massacre and sack of
louvaln and German ruthlessness at
work in Belgium, even as it hopes
some day to be at work in America
They will see the decoration of the
kaiser placed on Capt. Won Neigle,
commander Of the U-boat that sunk
the Lusitania, and will see how the
captain went mad with remorse over
the crime he was ordered TO commit by
Europe's "man with a withered soul.
They will see the kaiser smashed in
the jaw by the captain of his guard
whom he insulted. They see him
swagger in gorgeous uniforms and
hear his boasts and threats in the his.
toric scene with Ambassador Gerard.
They will see him fall, and will see
the prediction Of the end of the war
and the end of the kaiser and his i'm.
prisonment in Louvain, the first city
to fall victim to German aggression.
All OF the scenes and episodes, up to
the entry of America into the war are
historically accurate. and the words Of
the kaiser in the play are correct quo
tations of his actual utterances.
In connection with the present big
drive in France the picture assumes a
new interest and gives one an especial
ly vivid glimpse of the actual forces
against which America is arrayed in
this war for freedom from the curse of
autocratic ambition. A short synopsis
of the story follows:
Summer 1914, and the world wa IT
peace, love and friendship ruled the
glad business of every day. Marcas,
blacksmith of Louvain, was a mighty
man. Marcas lived in faith and love
and friendship, and by the sweat of
his brow had won peace and prosper
ity.
There was another man who lived in
a palace in Berlin. He was twice a
king, Is times a duke, twice prince
nine times count, besides being a
bishop, William of Hohenzollern, King
of Prussia, Emperor of Germany.
August J., 1914, and William of Ho-
henzollern spoke the word that set the
world afire, came the crash, titanic,
colossal, staggering. JOY died, hope
fled, desolation, became supreme. Up.
on that day the world passed into twi-
light The baneful autocracy Of Prus-
sla had spoken.
In two years q million men were
killed, manned or made prisoners.
Twenty-Five million families mourned.
Then came the master crime. An un.
offending people was ground into ex-
tinction beneath an iron heel, a nation
was destroyed, the crime against Bel
gium completed to its fullest; the
Prussian stalked onward with his twin
comrades. Frightfuness and Horror.
A new blotch of infamy, the Lustania,
was added to the Black Name of the
Beast.
There was another man who lived in
a White House. The chief and spokes-
man of great nation that believes all
people were born free and equal with
right to peace and happiness.
Then came the end The dark cur.
| tain which, like shroud, had envel.
oped the earth. cleared away, and,
when the echo of the last cannon haC
died upon the air, the silver -throated
bells of all the world rang forth the
glad tidings
William of Hohenzollern Has Fall
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Liberty Theatre, Wednesday anC
Thursday, May and 2.