Relax!Fifteenmenon a deadman’s
ch est!Yo-ho-hoanda bottleonRobertLouisStevenson’staleof pirates,
pi ecesof eightanda boy’sadventurehits
thescreen.Nowtry notto shiveryour
ti mberswiththesequestions.
(^1) What’sthenameof theshipon which
youngJimHawkins(JackieCooper)sets
sail to findtheislandof treasure?
A TheAdventureGalley
B TheHispaniola
C The JollyRoger
(^2) Ji m’scompanionon theshipis pirate
LongJohnSilver(WallaceBeery).
What’sthenameof Silver’sparrotpal?
A Bi llyBones
B Bl ackDog
C CaptainFlint
(^3) AfterplayingSquireTrelawneyin
Tr easureIsland, actorNigelBrucewent
onto appearin anotheradaptationof
Stevenson’sworkin 1938.Whatwasit?
ATheBodySnatcher
BKidnapped
CTheStrangeCaseofDr. Jekyll
and Mr. Hyde
(^4) IncludingTreasureIsland, Jackie
CooperandWallaceBeerystarredin
fourmoviestogether.Whichwasthe
fi rstone...andwonWallacean Oscar?
ATheBowery
BTheChamp
CO’Shaughnessy’sBoy
(^5) There have been over 50 adaptations
of this tale, including a 1990 TV picwith
Charlton Heston as Silver. Whichfuture
Oscar winner played Jim in that?
A Christian Bale
B Heath Ledger
C Jared Leto
Answers: 1: B; 2: C; 3: B; 4: B; 5: A
TREASURE ISLAND
PREMIERED
85
YEARS AGO
It Happened This WeekI N STATE D :
Hawaii
Aloha! After
being annexed
back in 1898
and made a
U.S. territory
in 1900, the
Pacific Ocean
archipelago of
Niihau, Kauai,
Oahu, Molokai,
Lanai, Kahoolawe,
Maui and the BigIslandof Hawaii
becomes the 50thandmost
re cent state tojointhe unionon
Aug. 21, 1959.KILLED:José and Kitty Menendez
Onthe evening of Aug. 20, 1989, the
BeverlyHills entertainment exec and
hiswifeare murdered — leading to a
series of sensational TV trials which
end in 1994 with the convictions of
their sons Lyle and Erik for the crime.30
YEARS AGO
TOURED:
Yeah! Yeah! OnAug.19, 1964,
Jo hn, Paul, GeorgeandRingo
ki ck off the Americanlegof
their very first world tour at
the Cow Palace outside of San
Francisco...and play 24 concerts
in 26 hard days’ nights!