AMUSEMENTS.

Hokitika Guardian, 17 November 1925, Page 1

AMUSEMENTS.

fiVERYBODVC PICTURES, “TJIJ-: LOST WORLD”—WEDNESDAY AND THURSDAY. I’robbaly the most unusual love drama ever put on the .screen is “The bust World,” which tomes to the I'rin(yss Theatre next Wednesday and Thursday. The picture is an adaptation of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s novel nt the same title. Doyle admits now lAat when lie wrote the story he hadn't the slightest conception of its film possibilities, lie painted a vivid word picture of a lost world in the vast, unexplored regions of the upper Amazon river which Time had forgot. There Doyle's band of adventurers found prehistoric monsters that roamed the earth 10,000.DU0 years ago and hat fled each other to the death as in the days of old. Into the heart of this monsterinfested district went this party of explorers - three men and a girl. Their mission was to rest tie her father, if he still lived, and prove to the world the existence of the prehistoric beasts—the brontosaurus, bigger than ten elephants; the tyrannosaurus most fearsome creal lire that ever stalked this earth; the stegosaurus, t ricern tops, the pterodactyl, or great living dragon, and other gigantic species. As i he modern humans watched, awe-inspired, these ministers ga.ve deadly battle to one a not her-—such battles as never before have keen witnessed on a motion picture screen. Numerous motion picture producers have tried in vain to lilin Doyle’s story, Imt the reincarnation of the monsters was deemed impossible. Finally, however, an embryo sculptor named W illis H. O'Brien ''discovered’’ the monsters. He submit ten his strange idea to Waiterson It. Kothacker. owner of him laboratories in Chicago and Bus Angelo.-. Kol line.;'.';' sow its pos-ihilit ies. and. joining hands with First National Pictures,_ launched work on the project. I hat was seven wars ago. Since then work lias proceeded steadily, am! now the picture is (omph'le. it -establishes probably the record f.r time production in the film imlu.-trv as well as a record for

Ull lf| 1 1 < II OSS. U i i.‘ » s’. U’U IS Wallace Decry and Floyd Hughes head the human east, sharing honors with ,l:o prehistoric monsters. Sunjiorting them are mote than 2.009 other players who participate in the huge scenes showing the. leluru ot the explorers to H.iudou. They bring with them a brontosaurus which escapes. Running amok in tin- heart of Bond-. ids shopping district, the monster proceei.s to v.iec-v the metropolis and finally crashes into the Thames, when il-e famous Bomlon bridge collapses under his weight. lvirH ludsoii sutn-rvised 'he production for i’othaekor and Fust .National, the directorial stall' including O'Brien and Harry Hoyt. Special prices will be charged on Wednesday and I hursday next? Circle 2s. .Stalls Js (Jcl. Childion uni’uM* 12. fkl. Coming 'Frichiy next Bn by in ‘•(imtnin January.”