San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1925-09-06
DOYLE :
NEW PICTURE
At PALACE

Imagine huge brontosaurus-
one of these prehistoric reptiles of
which we have read as being associat-
ed with the ages of long ago-eighteen
| times as large as an elephant-with
head erect, eyes agape and tail aswiri
weaving its devasting way through the
streets of a civilized community Of to-
! davl That is one of the things you
will see when ""The Lost World" takes
its place at the head of the Palace
program for the current week.
According to the advance reports
Conan Doyle's most impressive work
of fiction has been adapted to the sill
yer sheet in a way that would even
bewilder the author himself. Seven
years are said TO have been spent i'll
recreating images of the monsters that
are said to have inhabited this world
during the upper Jurassic age, about
| 100000 years ago. And these crea'
lures fight. work. eat and generally
disport themselves in the manner that
we have associated them in our con-
cept of the period. Learned critics
have admitted themselves at loss for
words to adequately describe THE
Lost World" 1t is said TO be one of
those pictures that is so spectacular
and so great that mere verbal descrip-
| ton cannot possibly do it justice.
Dealing as it does with an age that
assumes the vague proportions of
mythology, its interest compelling
qualities are assured and the fact that
there is a present day love story and
romance laid in this background of the
dim. distant past guarantees entertain
ment of an order that has never be-
fore been seen on the silver sheet.
| 1t is claimed that there is scena
after scene where the nerve exciting
action exceeds the point of thrill and
becomes terrifying in their tensity. \
brontosaurus engages in death duel
with an allosaurus that can only be de-
scribed in terms that would defy the
imagination of the most assimilative
and conceptive mind of the day. A
forest fire is said to take place, caused
by a volcanic eruption the like OF
which has never before been depicted
in movies, and the creatures of the
antediluvian ages, the agathamausus,
the tperdociles. the tyrannasaurus, the
triceratops. the diploducos and other
reptilian monsters that are claimed to
have roamed the earth during the
existence of the continent of Lemuria
will pass before your eyes much after
the order your minds eye has con-
ccivcd them when reading the ac'
counts of our autediluvinn ancestors.
The Lost World" is reported as be-
ing film production that will always
stand in class by itself, mere words
cannot possibly describe its import
There are said to be so many scenes
and sequences that defy imagination
and verbal description that each spec
tator must judge for himself its worth
and qualities.
Lewis Stone, Bessie Love. Lloyd
Hughes, Wallace Berry, Virginia
Browne Faire and Alma Bennett head
the cast of human actors who appear
in this narrative of the dark ages
and their work is reported as being
commendable and adding to the enter
tainment value Of the film, but re-
viewers contend that there is no. actor
or coterie of actors that could posi-.
bly, detract from the impressive actions
and movements of the monsters We
have visioned since the days of oul
] childhood