Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1925-12-07
SPECTACULAR FEATURE film
ATTHE OPERA HOUSE TODAY
Sir A. Conan Doyle's, Lost
World" to Open Weeks Pro-
gram-Augusta Favorite In
Picture Showing Last Half
of Current Week - Some
Headline Acts on the Vaude-
vile Bill

!. When the last half Of the week
mature and vaudeville program il
presented at the Augusta Opera
House, the audiences will have a
splendid opportunity of seeing in one
of the strongest roles Of her career,
q beautiful young film luminary, who
In her early work in the movies was
for a time located In this city, where
she appeared in scenes photographed
IN and about Augusta for the Holman
Day Productions.
Charming Mary Astor 10 that little
lady. who will be remembered pleas
antly by many Augusta folks. Miss
Astor plays the lead opposite Lloyd
Hughes in 1.-THE Scarlet Saint, which
will be the motion picture to be
screened at the Opera House in con-
junction with the five act vaude-
Vile program on Thursday. Friday
and Saturday of this week.
A girl who has never seen the
Follies, never visited a night club.
/. refuses to work without her mother
! being present, and who doesn't like
/. men under thirty. In nutshell, that
. is Mary Astor.
Conan Doyle Thriller
; For the first three days of this
. week the feature film showing at
! the Opera House will be Conan
Doyle's thrilling novel, 1.-THE Lost
, World" adapted for the screen by
Earl Hudson. Capital City people
who have seen this great picture In
! Boston or elsewhere pronounce 1t one
.. OF the most remarkable motion pic
. ture productions in the history OF
. the art.
: DOYLE admits now that when he
! wrote the story he hadn't the slight
est conception of it's film possibilities.
He painted u vivid word picture OF
!: lost world in the vast, unexplored
regions of the upper Amazon river
which Time had forgot.
There Doyle's band of adven-
/. turers found prehistoric monsters
. that roamed the earth 100000
wears ago and battled each other to
the death as in the days of old.
. Into the heart of this monster
infested district went this party OF
explorers-three men and girl.
Their mission was to rescue her
. father, if he still lived, and prove
to the world the existence of the
prehistoric beasts-the brontosaurus,
. bigger than ten elephants; the tyran-
),
that ever stalIed this earth; the ste
yosaurus, triceratops, the pterodactyl,
or great flying dragon, and other
gigantic species.
AS the modern humans watched,
awe inspired, these monsters gave
deadly battle to one another-such
battles as never before have been
witnessed on motion picture screen.
. During the countless millions of
years the twinkling stars have
watched over the earth, the blink
ing eyes of the skies. have rarely
. beheld a spectacular scene the
equal of the volcano forest fire
episode in. "The Lost World"
White hot lava from volcano
starts the fireworks by igniting
forest thousands of acres in extent.
Prehistoric dinosaurs bigger than
ten elephants and more dangerous
than a hundred tigers and lions roll
ed into one, are driven from their
lairs by the approaching flames.
As the flames bear down. the
fleeing monsters try to get to a big
lake. Characters enacted by Bessie
Love. Lloyd Hughes, Lewis Stone,
Wallace Berry, also make for this
watery refuge, and they are in peril
of their lives from the crushing legs
Of these mighty creatures.
Miss Astor's Picture
z THE Scarlet Saint. in which Miss
Astor co-stars, the film showing for
the last three days of the week is
adapted from Gerald Bea mont's
famous story. THE Lady Who
played. Fidele," the picture deals
with the dramatic romance of
young American girl who is forced
to marry much older man,
foreigner, to save her sweetheart
! from JAIL
: Mary Aston and Lloyd Hughes are
i supported by Frank Morgan, Jed
{ Prouty. Antrim Short, Lorna Duveen.
George Neville and Jack Raymond.