S 4
£ HDix
AVIS
CHRISTIANSTED
THEATRE
8.15.
THURSDAY
EVENING
8.15.
“JACK DEMPSEY”
HEAVYWEIGHT CHAMPION OF THE WORLD.
IN
“DAREDEVIL JACK”
Jack
Dempsey,
champion heavyweight,
plays the title role and puts
many
convincing punches
into the picture.
Dempsey
1s youthtul enough
to fit into
the romance
of the story,
developing
later in this picture which
has
more
to
do with punches
than with smiles, and
believe
me,
1/
Real Punches,
not
Stage
Punches.
The Story:
Jack Derry
in *‘Daredevil Jack’’ accidentally
becomes
involved
in
a mystery
sur-
rounding Glory Billings, when fate
makes
him her
rescuer
in
a kidnapping
episor'
e,
In the early stages
of the story
two prospectors
are
searching
for gold ina
+
*=2rn
desert.
One
of them is obliged
to
return
to the
settlement
with
his sick
wife.
he
other,
after promising his partner
a half interest
in what
he finds,
continues
with
his
little girl into the
wilderness.
The stor
™en rXips saveral
years
ahead,
and
we
find
the
girl, Glory, living in the home
of he.
_ .u«®han,
Leonard
Billings.
One day,
when
she
is laotoring along the country
road alone,
she
is stopped
and siezed
by
thiree
men
with whom
she is struggling
when Jack Derry,
a college athlete,
happens
to
come along
in time to beat
off the kidnappers
and resue
the girl.
As the
story develops
Billings is found in possession
of a secret
told him by
Glory,
to
the effect that her fr.her,
on
his
last prospecting
trip,
discovered
a
subterranean
basin
of pure oil.
I
e various exciting
situations
that
develop, Derry
is always
on
havnd,
usually throt
the
informatior
<ent
him by the Billings butler,
as
the
rescuer
of Glory.
.
The
story bee
mes
even
more
inte:
sting
when
a
new complication
appears.
It
so
happens
that Bi'...gs
has
been
inst..
tal in placing Derry’s
father in prison,
by get-
tJi'ng him to sig/: a paper purported
to be
velease
of certain
mining interest
in favor
of
B s
but which is in reality a econfessio..
framed
by Biilings’ to place Derry
in prison
arn
‘ieve himself of certain
obligations.
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EXTRA,
EXTRA.
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Harry Pcllard
in
“W lirl of The West
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ONE REEL
C:
MEDY.
Be sure to get your tickets in time,
as many
‘eats
have already been
e ~gaged
in
ad-
vance for this
serial.
ADMISSION
B e
O .
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eeaey isl
BDE,
RRi
ie
bawess
e kO,
Children
15¢. and 10c.
FOR RENT.
THE LARGE HOUSE
AT RICHMOND
For particulars
apply to
L. P. PANTOPPIDAN.
15th November
1922
LOCAL.
The
S.
S.
‘“‘Guiana’’ is
expected
at
Frejeriksted
this
evening
at
7
o’clock
from New York.
PLANTTGOPS.
WANT
to buy good
Flanttops
in
the coming
14 days.
Bethlehem,
Novbr. 14th 1922,
WEST INDIAN SUGAR FACTORY.
The
Creole
sailed
for
St.
Thomas
at
usual
hour yesterday
afternoon.
Sky
rockets
from
the
eruiser
Con-
stance
got peopie busy
gazing lust night
and
wondering
as
to what
the
luminary
objects floating in the air could
be.
Th>
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LISTOF UNCLAIMEDMAILFOR THE
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WEEK ENDED NOVEMBER 11, 1922,
h
Mr. Tubald
Abramson,
|
Rebecca
Bell,
@®
‘
kandolph
Christian,
Mrs. Alliveder C. Giddenes,
r
Mr. George Milligin.Q
g
Mrs. Alice Reubel,
;
Mrs. Reubel;
Water
Gu
|
Hezekiah
Walcott;
12 Ph'\ce’s
St
|
Post
Office,
Christianstegl,
Virgin Is-
!
lands,
November
13,
1922.
i
B. R. LARSEN,
Pd¥tmaster.
|
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searchlights
of
the ship
®vere
later
on
|
thrown around.
|
Mrs.
D. L. Scanlon,
wife of
Chief
Ra-
'
dio Operator
here,
digd at her
home
in
l
this town early yesterci;\y
morning
as
a
;
result of poisoning.
It is understood
that
the unfortunate
la&' gnt
up
daring
the
night to take sum 2 m=dicine
and
in mis-
take
measured
and
drank
Lysol.
Much
sympathy
is feit for Mr. Sceanlon
on
this
|
sad
and tragic
occasion.
The
body
will
|
be sent
to the States
for burial
it
is
ad-
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vised.
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NEWS
NOTES.
!
Captain
‘A,
C.
Strautt
of
H,
M,
8,
i
““Constance’’
make
an
official
call
on
the
Despatehing
Secretary
yesterday
!
morning and expressed
his
appreciation
|
for the
many
courtesies
that
had
been
i
extended
to him
and the personnel
of the
|
ship under
his command
by the good peo-
|
ple of St.
Croix.
|
The ‘*Constance’’ saileds¥ate
yesterday
|
afternoondor Barbuda,
B.
W.
1.
TELEGRAMS.
ST. CROIX STATION.
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London, Nov. 10th.—Viscount
Birken-
!
head
is created
an
Earl
by
the
honours
'
list
of
Mr.
Lloyd George,
issued
today
{
and
Lord
Lee
of
Fareham
is
made
a
’
Viscount.
Viscount
Farquhar
is created
an Barl and
Lord
Leverhulme
becomes
|
a
Viscount.
The
following
are
made
[
Peers:
Sir
Joan
Bethell,
Sir
Joseph
!
Maclay, and
Lieut-Colonel
Francis
Mild-
|
may.
Sir
Edward
Gaulding,
barrister
and
member
of
Parliament
for
Worces-
ter,
was
also
raisead
to
the
Peerage.
In the list of political
honours
for servi-
ces
rendered
the
Coalition
Govt.,
Mr.
Winston
Churchiil,
former Secretary
for
the Colonies,
is
made
a
member
of the
Order
of
the
Companions
of
Honour,
which
was
created
by King
George
in
June
1917,
and
is
restricted
to
fifty
members.
The order esrries
with
it
no
title
and
is
conferred
for ‘‘conspicucus
l
services
of national importance’’.
1t ranks
next
to, and immediately
after,
the
first
’
class of the order of the British Empire’’.
Stockholm,
November 10th.—Protessor
Frederick Soddy,
former derronstrator in