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Show - ! Sole survivor of the ship on which he ran away from home, Crusoe has a terrible fight with Moorish pirates and is captured. ill-fat- ed , Escaping from the pirate strong- hold, he becomes Navigator of a British privateer and then is east envoy on an Island in the West w Indies, where he finds the of the crew of a lost Spanish galleon. AND THEN STARTS the most breathless whirl of you ever experienced. Robinson Crusoe and Friday, the black that Crusoe saves from a horrible death at the hands of the cannibals, faee the dangers of the lonely island together and by wit and daring defeat the aims of the savage tribes which visit the island. There is the strange sprite of a girl known only as the Water Witch, whom Crusoe sees for the first time in the mists of the waterfall. Her strange connection with Torquada, the leader of the descendants of the Spanish Galleon wrecked near the island nearly a hundred years before, and who live in the strange Lost City of the island, will keep you puzzled until the very end. You will hope and despair with Crusoe ns the years trail by, bringing no sign of human life, and without the sight of a single ship through all the years. . Then when the white sails of a merchantman loom up over the horizon, you will be frantic for Crusoe to light the neglected signal fire, and will cry in sympathy when the sails disappear again, leaving the lonely white man in the midst of overwhelming dangers. The years travel slowly, but adventure comes and goes like lightning flashes. Daily fights with the savages, encounters with the strange wild animals which inhabit the isle, and the hazards of the untraveled jungle, beset the castaway and serve to whet your appetite for the new thrills to come. Look at the playing date, and then dont miss a single episode of this new kind of chapter play, a chapter of which will be v shown at this theatre every week. ' theatre angelbs JUNE 29th THURSDAY, ' SUmiKMENT CRESS OK TI1F. SPANISH F01IK . |