Gem Theatre
Beemer,
NE
68716
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The town of Beemer had regularly-screened motion pictures in its opera house from 1911 until discontinuing the practice in 1923. In 1925, the town’s merchants banded together to make the Gem Theatre its new movie house. As they readied the Gem Theatre’s location, summer screenings through December of 1925 were held for the Gem Theatre at Fireman’s Pavilion. On December 16, 1925, the Gem Theatre launched with four free screenings of Reginald Denny in “California Straight Ahead” supported by a Karl “Charles Puffy” Huszar comedy short and the first instalment of the Francis Ford directed serial “The Perils of the Wild.” Emiel Grosse operated the theatre and assembled the Beemer Orchestra to accompany the films.
The Gem Theatre likely had a 15-year lease. In 1930, the theatre was modernized which included the addition of sound. The talkies commenced on February 7, 1930 with Norma Shearer in “The Trial of Mary Dugan” supported by an Our Gang comedy short. The fun appears to have stopped on November 5, 1944 when The Lone Ranger starred in “Wolves on the Range”. Rose Nebuda was the final operator of the theatre.
After World War II, Nebuda would continue movie operations in the new Bee Theatre opening on May 1, 1946 at a different location.
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The July 15, 1937 issue of Film Daily had this item about the Gem Theatre: