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Right: Lon Chancy as Pew
Photo-Play Journal
Treasure Island
PAR AMOUNTARTC RAFT With Shirley Mason as Jim Hawkins
Jim Hawkins Shirley Mason
Mrs. Hawkins Josie Melville
Bill Bones Al Filson
Black Dog Wilton Taylor
Pew Lon Chaney
Long John Silver Charles Ogle
Israel Hands Joseph Singleton
Morgan Bull Montana
Merry .Lon Chaney
Capt. Smollett Harry Holden
Squire Trelawney Sydney Dean
Dr. Livesay Charles Hill Mailes
WE all have our gods and our heroes and favorite stories. Robert Louis Stevenson's "Treasure Island" is the best of them for most of us, old or young. It was therefore with trepidation that I went to see the picture play of this adorable story; I was afraid I should be disappointed ; I was sure that what Stevenson had done so admirably on paper would be spoiled in the picture. But I was delighted. I came away determined to sit right down and read the story again, and then dash off to see the picture once more as soon as I was finished. Maurice Tourneur loved his Stevenson and knew it in spirit as well as in text. There must be some of the Jim Hawkins in him, for he has made the Stevenson romance breath for us afresh ; his pirates are real pirates, the kind a boy imagines when he reads of Captain Kidd ; his Benbow Inn is just what the old Benbow Inn should be. And Shirley Mason is just the right sort of a Jim Hawkins. I felt a bit skeptical, I must admit, about a girl taking the part, but no boy could have done as well. Jim Hawkins had a highly developed love for romance together with a large amount of courage, and Shirley Mason is able to show these qualities as well as add a little wistfulness as she listens to the hair-raising tales of Bill Bones, which is very charming.
It is a great experience, to be able to forget one's thirty or forty or fifty or sixty years and be transported again into a land of pirates and buccaneers. We feel the delight of Jim and his mother as the old sailor, Bill Bones, takes up lodgings in their almost deserted inn. We get as thrilled as Jim and the guests of the inn as they gather around Bill Bones and hear his stories, tales which made us shudder and see things. We hear old Pew, the blind pirate, as he comes rat-tat-tatting with his cane along the road, and we feel more apprehensive for Bill Bones' ' safety than he appears to be, when Pew hands him the Black Spot as a warning that the rest of the pirate crew will kill him. But I may as well go on with the story.