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"LOST HORIZON." That which is oue of the most important screen events of tho year takes place at the Kegent Theatre to-night, where Frank Capra;s supreme directorial effort, "Lo'st Horizon," makes. its bow. Starriug Konald Colman, and f eaturing Edward Everett Horton^ H. B. Warner, Jane Wyatt, Margo, John Howard, Thomas Mitchell, Isabel Jew-ell, and Sam Jaffe, tho picture is an adaptation by Eobert Eislun of James Hilton Js celebrated novel of the same uame. Briefly, the story of "Lost Horizon" concerns iive persons who are kidnapped in an aeroplane in China, and flown deep into the lieart of Forbidden Tibet. Picked up by a caravan headed by a mystic and elderly Chinese, they are oscortcd to what is perliaps the most unusual place on the faco of the earth — the lamasery of Shangri-La. Herc, closeted securcly by mountains impenctrable to the uninitiated, is a sctting of indescribable beauty and serenity, peopled by members of the strangest cult of mod'Crn times. Komanco and adventure fall to the bewildered kidnap victims, and soon, all but oue surrendel* to the utter contentment and rare loveliness that is Shangri-La.
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 177, 13 August 1937, Page 12
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