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Show "ROAD TO RUIN"-May 8, 9 "THE DIVINE LADY"-May 20, 21, 22 "UNCLE TOMS CABIN" "THE GODLESS GIRL" TARZAN THE MIGHTY-SATURDAY ONLY Friday Only, May 3 REGULAR PRICES I1 NoYeJized by ARTHUJ\ B. REEVE, From an Ol'igtnal Serial produced bv UNIVERSAL PICTURES CORPORATION, by special arrangement with EDGAR RICE BURROUGHS Autbw TARZA.N 01' Tim APES. THE CAVB OUU.. I ol e&c. ..Obi ~'-':l" ... In terror }.hry pointed. The Patriarch and the others were closing in. Tarzan was overnumbered. a hundred to one. He turned, saw them coming. But there was no ftar in his heart. He drew himsel'f . to his full heigt!t. Suddenly from his mouth issued the weirdest of sounds-the cry of the jungle! Tantor heard it and trumpeted. Taug and Teeka heard it and answered. Everywhere, throughout the jungle they heard it-and it was returned. The Patriarch and the tribe ringed him now. Tarzan faced them. Trcv had no stomach for the nght. But the Patriarch cursed them and gave the signal En masse they overcame their terror and fell upon Tarzan. Mary and Bobby were swept aside. Tarzan was down fighting, overwhelmed by weight of numbers, pinned to the ground. Meanwhile Black John had revived. He scrambled to his fAt. grac;ping his spear, shoutipg. The tribe heard and in an instant they had Tan:::an bound to a huge stake in the enclosure, aa Bobby and Mary crouched back from the crowd. Black ] ohn raised his spear at the defiant Tarzan. Louder and louder now eame the trumpeting of Tantor the elephant. Nearer and nearer he was crashing through the jungle. Black John smiled at the impotence of it. Tantor would be too late. Defiantty Tarzan called to Tantor. There was a sudden change in Black John's countenance. Tantor was nearer than he bad thought ·-he was at the wall, crashing itl With a scream Mary turned her head away. Black John had heaved his huge javelin at Tarzan. who break suffer, are punished and perish. It is the same in the jungle and. th~ hut,_ the ~ost village and the Bobbie t>egained consciousness in,. cabm, m umvers.ttY and slum, Wall the hut of Tarzan. He looked ?treet and the Bowery-the game fright ened at first at the strange ts the same; only (he rules change. ~urroundings, th~n seeing it was i :FundaJ?entals. are the law of . . life, Tarzan holding him was r:!assured. i nexor able, umversal, eternal. far .. The face of Tarzan was a study. ' ~a n 'la~ much to learn. That was It was a new ser,sation that he was· ~np:rficta~. He had far more to experiencing, thi.s contact wi th his I :each. l hat was deep. . The boy own kind. There had dawned :!n I a nd the man we~e fast fnends. Yet him that ins~~nct which responds to! there was somethmg supplementary, the call of humanity to protect the I .:ompleme~ ta~y . that each lacked, Thl~ wonder£~1 day for weak against the strong, the eternal .ought. conflict of good and eviL .t'arnn ~ach was crowned by 1t. It was was starting in with the tun<ic.111 ··n ! Aaryl tal passions, love and hate ,1u;.;e 1 So 1t was that slowly, bit by bit, and fear courage and co~ardice Hobby succeeded in making his virtue a~d vice benevolence and jungle friend :realize Mary's peril. malevolence. ' wAnd with Tarzan once an idea was' "I want Mary," cried eobby r r~alized it was translated into ac"take me to her." Ag-ain and ·.J.ga in tx:m, he tried to make fanc..1 understand 1t was dark. now. With his but rould not. grass .rope in one hand, his dagger Once he went to the door of the about his neck, and Bobby caught hut, struck out into the iungle but up in his arms Tar~n iss-ued for':h stoppe(! suddenly as he caught a into the night noises and among the glimpse of N uma, th~ 1ion, snarling. prowlers of his jungle. Tarzan heard it, too, leaped into Once they encountered · Numa action, grabbing Bobby in the nick again. Quick as a flash in the silvery Chapter Yl of time, glaring at Numa who slunk moonbeams Tarzan had looped his GIANT EMOTIONI away. rol?e·~ l!wu-ng U{? int?. '!. t~ee. ~h~t Bobby was willing enough now to ou-t defiance- and again Numa· sluO:k Straining at his bonds with hia return to the hut and together they away impotent before his master. powerful muscles knotted in tense ~ th'ts · h t, a st,-<~.ng-e 'Oall, spent t h e mg Somelimec; from tree to tree, cords Tarzan broke loose from the man and boy. where that showed the mastery of stake just as Black John hurled his In the morning: when Bobhy dis· the jungle, ag~in along ground trail . spear. covered the old picture book the or ihrough soft meadow they hur· At the same instant Tantor broke roles were reversed. Here was th~ ried along. Bobby needed not now through the stockade and the nafhild ~nstructing the man. As ~ic·· to urge on his friend. :ives scattered in terror. Black tore after picture was turned up They were at the stockade. It John seized up Bobby and fled after Bobby found he had an apt pupiL was no mon. ot an obstacle than them as Tarzan took the swooning First it was a picture of a boy. the lines ot a tennis court. Tarzan Mary in his anns. The huge eleThere was no difficulty in getting was .a three-dimensional human ani- phant lumbered over to Tarzan and the idea over with that. Next a mal. They were over it in a jiffy, knelt. Holding the girl in his girl. The next idea was therefore Tarzan and Bobby, safe, high up in arms Tarzan mounted his back, of Mary. Tarzan himselt spied a the crotch of a tree. Tantor !"ose and crashed out of the picture of an ape. But Bobby ~tockade into the jungle and safety. shook his head, tt.rned the pages, Such a sight Tarzan had never Always in times of trouble or found a man. Quickly they agreerl seen or dreamed. Excitedly Bobby perplexity Tarzan was drawn back on the difference. These were a I! explained and as he did Tarzan's by a strange power to the lonely new ideas to Tarzan'<; keen mind. ~yes bl.Bn_,zleilkas Jhehg?t the !dea, mhore hut in the heart of the jungle. Mary 0 hn sb actwnsld t alnl opened her eyes, struggled from his Be absorbed th(:m r<' pidly. ~rom ach. But still thaL was not what trom anyt. mg t e oy cou te · arms and stood in this rude shack It was more than Tarzan could Bobby wanted. to convey. Quickly stand. He had reached the break- staring at him. be turned the pages. Ah, there "Where am I? What happened?'~ was what he wanted, tortunately. ing uoint. she demanded. lt was a picture of a girl struggiing He dropped suddenly, like a pan• "The witch doctor says he is with a man. ·with signs and ges- ther, l>efore John and Mary. Black God." Tarzan in his triumph was tures Bobby tried to get over what 1ohn released her, cowering back child-like. "But he and his people was in his mind. in utter surprise. Mary recovered ran from me and Tantor. 1 am "Mary needs us I She is afraid of herself with a rush, started back. • more mighty than Tantor. I am Blark John!" "Xt 1s Tarzan!" The Patriarch God!" Slowly Tarzan began to get it, and the tribe took it up and echoed Mary was aghast. But she that there was something wrong. it, scattering in wild flight. smiled, understanding the childH b;1d been a great day for Tarzan. An instant later Mary cried out mind of the handsome jungle giant. Comoressed into hours had been the and swept Bobby safe in her arms. "No, Tarzan-not God-but a man rudiments of education that with Together they watched, clinging. created by God in His own ;,.nage." Black John never 'took his eyes Tarzan echoed the girl's word, civilized man take years, iust- as comoressed into one sudden swift off Tarzan. Tarzan started slowly "Mar." He strode over to the old moment as he had first glimpsed toward him. There was no ruse of chest, opened it, and from it he \•la1y at the pool had been thrust Black John's that could stay Tar-- took a picture of a lovely woman. upon his emotions that cover chil<lIt was Lady Greystoke. hood, youth and manhood. ~·et zan now. "This-man?" he asked. Tarzan was not in a whirl. 'fhe They grappled. :Mary took it and shook her head, very simplicity of life in the iungle From b ehind trees and cabins smiling. "No. A woman.;.' was his protection against the com~ no"w the Patriar!!h was mustering Tarzan was puz2led. "Woman,'• ~1..-::; 1 j po o: 1~o d c rn ma n. the frightened natives, arming them. he repeated. "She. Like Taug'a ~··or the l ~·~.v s of the jungle are as The fight was swift and short. Teeka?" 1 'J aJ< ,i a s t n~ :: as 'th e sky. Man Tarzan flung the beaten Black John (To be continued): • r beast wh 0 ohey urosper. They at Mary's feet. Chaptn Y. . -r . , -ANT~ R .l RUMPETS I I ·S ' ' A Western Mystery Drama as 'Dhrilling as the Bark of a .45-Swift as Thundering Hoofs! Saturday Only, May 4 Sunday Only, May 5 .. VVednesday,Thursday Mon., Tues., · May 6, 7 May 8, 9 .... , .. ," lviOTHERSThe Shell-Shocks they Are your daughtcra stepping out 1 .. . muc.1: h~ .re t'••-cy getting away t oo got in France were mild compared to the from you? Do you know whAt they are really doing? Are we clrHting into the chaoa of Free love 1 Are honor and chutit}' lo•t virtue•? Ia marriage u aa She- Shocks they got when ln.atltutlon doomed? they wandered into the Women's Deatfi. Battalion In See HELEN FOS'f!ER uTHE ROAD TO RUIN'~ and decide of 1Women to the right of them! Women to ALL SEATS 35c the left of them! It was an undress parade . lll No Man's Land! • Endorsed by all Churches Childnn under 12 not admitted unless accompanied by parent~ • ,. • |