Evening star., 1925-11-09
A NJ i S E M E n T S

Tearle, and is full OF thrills and ro-
, nance served up in an expose Of the
queer tricks of fake mediums in
league with banded crooks, when a
gypsy band, headed by a master
crook, plans to rob millionaire or
phan Of her fortune. 1t Is well played
by good cast.
| EARLE-"The Trouble With Wives"
The Earle bill for this week brings
back Ford Sterling, with Tom Moore
and Florence Vidor, in THE Trouble
With Wives" a Paramount picture,
In which Esther Ralston also is fea-
tured. The story concerns newly
welded couple, whose cruise on the
sea Of matrimony is one of perfect
bliss, until the coming of a visitor
when 1t changes to very rough and
| stormy sailing. Many stirring and
comical scenes are shown before the
pretty. young wife finally decides that
the trouble with wives is husbands"
The Vincent Lopez Debutantes, in
an Offering Of dance-compelling Lopez
| musical arrangements, provide a
pleasant act. These young women are
a 'peppy" bunch, especially the saxo-
phonist and drummer, and are sure to
please. Healy, Reynolds and Saxton,
! in Execution" offer a comedy bur-
lesque on the jazz band that creates
laughter. Dorothy Taylor, with
Frank Marckley, in Blues and Syn
| copation." give snappy performance,
and Walter James Revue, with three
pretty girls. presents an offering Of
song, dance syncopation that seemed
to be popular with the audience last
| night.
Other acts include Roger Williams.
THE Boy From Dixie" in a comical
presentation of familiar sounds, and
Dunbar and Turner in Eccentric
ConglomorattonS."
METROPOLITAN Lost World 4"
Science and mechanical ingenuity,
| combined with the ever-progressive art
| of Photography, have given to the
| screen perhaps the most amazing and
| fanciful production since the birth
! of motion pictures in The Lost
World" which literally magnetized
those who were fortunate enough to
| jam their way into Crandall's Metro
| politan Theater yesterday for the
| Washington premier.
Monstrosities of the antedeluvian
era, created, of course, on visionary
| scientific descriptions and given an
! all too realistic touch by ingenious
| mechanisms. roams life-like before
| the very eyes of d somewhat mystified
>,
| dinosaurs, allosaurs and the ptero-
| dactyl, the feathered dreadnaught OF
| the air in the prehistoric age, and all
| the other frightful-lookinG monsters
| that science says Inhabited the earth
| 10000. 900 years ago. more or less.
The Lost World" is indeed a
marvel, an Incompatible triumph in
photoplay production as far as it
concerns the recreation of the world
ts-
! fore the coming of man. 1t Is based
on a novel that came from the imag-
| NATIVE brain Of Sir Arthur Conan
Doyle. In printed form the story tt
! self iS one of romance and adventure,
| but with the embellishments added by
| the film producers, coupled with the
remarkable and almost inconceivable
| representations of the monsters. il is
| even more vivid and thrilling
| The romance and adventure given
! the novel by Conan Doyle threads its
way interestingly through the picture.
| subsidiary. however, to the action in
the unexplored Amazon plateau where
the author placed the prehistoric
beasts for a scientific party to discover
for a doubling world The story is
| based on the trials and tribulations Of
an adventurous London newspaper
reporter who joins an expedition for
lnc Souln american jungle land to
| prove the scoffed assertion of a scien-
| tist that the prehistoric monsters still
| survived.
The thrills in the South American
| wtlds are beyond description. Giant
| beasts and birds of the air are de-
| picted devouring each other. uprooting
| trees and falling off high precipices.
In addition there is an eruption of a.
volcano with its molten lava spread
| ing death and destruction in its wake,
as we'll as the vicious antics of an
ape man to stir up already overtaxed
emotions. The return Of the explor.
ing party to London with a captured
brontosaur. which escapes and runs
wild through the congested streets.
bowling over houses. trampling hu.
mans under it's enormous feet and
ultimately falling through a bridge
and gliding along in the water brings
the picture to an exciting climax.
Wallace Berry has the role of the
| ilitempered scientist who conducts the
| exploring expedition to convince the
world that the frightful monsters still
exist, and Lewis S. Stone. Bessie Love
| and Lloyd Hughes have leading parts
| in the romantic tangle which is in
jected into the story. Joco, an in.
telligent monkey, also figures promi.
nently.