“THE LOST WORLD.”

Shannon News, 26 January 1926, Page 2

“THE LOST WORLD.”

GIANT DRAGON'S OF THE PAST ON SCREEN. The much discussed “Lost World” comes to Shannon on Friday. We quote two opinions from leading New York papers on this astonishing picture:— New York Evening Post: “The scenes showing these monsters are so marvellous *in itheir ingenuity and so realistic that it is hard to believe that they do not live, breathe, and waddle through the streets of London.' If the troubles of the monsters drew hearty laughter, it was probably laughter composed of four-fifths tension and one-fifth unbelief. You’ll have an evening of fun and fine instructive entertainment at this film. It’s a great amazing exodus of the ‘saurii’ when a volcano, gets overheated, thrills, plenty of comedy, horrors, a love story, and—well, “The Lost World’ ;has just about • everything.” , • . ■ New York Graphic: “ ‘The Lost World,’ Arthur Conan Doyle’s-mucli-discussed and quite amazing story, opened last night at the Astor Theatre to an audience that sat in breathless suspense while* the scenes depicted before their eyes seemed to transport them to another and far different world. It is stupendous, original —and—and—biut what’s the use of trying? Words are inadequate to express just how breath-taking is this miracle of photography. There is a charming love story running through