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Show ! VOLCANO ERUPTS AS ;l NEW MOVIE NOVELTY Huge Spectacular Scene Is Filmed ! ; for "The Lost World" During the countless millions of years the twinkling stprs have watch- ed over the earth, the blinking eyes of the skies have rarely beheld a spectacular scene the equal of the,. volcano-forest fire episode in "The Lost World," which opens at the Princess theatre Thursday. '' While hot lava from a volcano starts the fireworks by igniting a 4 forest thousands of acres in extent. I Prehistoric dinosaurs bigger than I ten elephants and more dangerous I than a hundred tigers and lions rolled I into one, are driven from their lairs J by the approaching flames. There arc scores of these creatures of the' reptilian age in this spectacle. IU Paleontologists say these mighty monsters have been dead at least 10 million years, but First 'National and Wattcrson R. Rothackcr have brought theni to life on the screen after over seven years' work. As the flames bear down, the flee- ing monsters try to get to a big lake. 1 Characters enacted by Bessie Love, Lloyd Huges, Lewis Stone, Wallace Beery, also make for this watery refuge, and they are in peril of their i lives from the crushing legs of these i mighty creatures. I The volcano-forest fire sequence in i "The Lost World" is but one of many incidents in the picturt equally as I thrilling. In fact, all of the thrills of Conan Doyle's novel, from which the picture was adapated by Earl g Hudson ,are to be seen. |