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Show SCIENTIST CHANGES BEASTS INTO MEN ON SOUTH SEA ISLE H. G. Wells' "Island of Lost Souls", eerie story of experiment and adventure, ad-venture, has been booked for the Cameo Theatre, where it will play Sunday, Monday and Tuesday, February Feb-ruary 19, 20 and 21, with a cast headed by Charles Laughton, Bela Lugosi, Richard Arlen, Leila Hyams and the "Panther Woman." The latter, Kathleen Burke, is the Chicago Chica-go girl who won that title from among 60,000 competitors in a nation-wide contest. The picture centers around Laugh-ton Laugh-ton in the role of a skilled scientist whose efforts to turn animals into men have driven him insane. But the South Seas Island, the center of his efforts, bears witness to his skill. It is peopled with brute men he has created from lions, leapards and dogs. And the "Panther Woman," a beauteous beau-teous girl, created from a panther, is his crowning achievement. Into tins scene comes Arlen, a young American, marooned there after being shipwrecked. He is shocked at Laughton's beastmen; he is horrified beyond endurance when he discovers that the girl, who has attracted him perhaps too strongly, is merely another of the doctor's creations. Aid reaches him ultimately when Miss Hyams, hiis fiancee, arrives on the scene in a vessel she has -chartered. But their escape is blocked and their lives endangered when the beast men, tasting blood for the first time, go on a rampage, intent on killing their creator and the other human beings on the island. I n |
