AMUSEMENTS.

Hokitika Guardian, 18 November 1925, Page 1

AMUSEMENTS.

PICTURES.

TIIK LOST WORLD.

TO-NIGHT AXI) THURSDAY

Imagination flees in awe before the l.lnill.s of prehistoric monsters and the strange fascination of dramatic grandeur compressed into Watterson R. Lotheraoker-l'ir.st National spectacle

!he Lost World,” which will be shown to-night and Thursday at the Princess Theatre. This adaption of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s famous adventure tale, " The J.o.st World,” has been translated to the screen by Karl Hudson with the uncanny elusiveness of a nightmare. Act the hair-raising episodes are transcended by a beautiful love story that grips the heart as the other grips the mind. “The Lost World” marks tin epoch in screen a enlevements because it combines into the structure of heart drama those elements of the spectacular which are sufficient in themselves to the creation of a gripping moving picture narrative. .Not only because it is different but because of its inherent excellence, the picture rises to front rank among the triumphs of .screen achievements. The fine reserve of the leading players, beaded by Bessie Love, Lloyd Hughes. Lewis Stone and Wallace llerry, is worthy of comment. Because of their extraordinary novelty, however, it is the animal actors that compel prior consideration. Xot animals. indeed, but monsters. Towering, 100 feet monsters, stalking through primeval forests in the nut racked heart of the Amazon eountrv—a ” lost ” world sur-

viving unchanged through 10,000,000 years of transition. Then conflict between those huge reptiles and the human actors stirs deep wells of feeling in the beholder. As a noevl. •‘The Lost World ” ranks as one of Hfr Arthur Conan Boyle’s most fantastic literary I’abrieations. It tells the story of a party of Knglislt scientists, newspaper men and a girl who venture into the v, ild.-, of the world, where life has remained unchanged in pristine wilderness through 100,000 centuries. Finally capturing one of the monsters—n brontosaurus bigger than ten elephants—the party returns with it to London to prove their discovery. One of the most thrilling stones ever liltned is that in which llte monster, escaping from its captors, charges through the heart of the Knglislt metropolis, wrecking buildings and terrifying thousands of pedestrians. The direction of the picture "’as in charge of Harry Hoyt and Willis 11. O’Brien. Prices: Circle 2s, .Stalls Is fid. Children tinder 12, (id.