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■ : ."LOST HOEIZON." That' which iss ono of tho most important scrcen events of the'year takes place at the Eegent Theatre to-night, where Frauk Capra's supreme dircctorial effort, "Lost Horizon," makes its ■ hoir. Starring Eonald Colmaxi, and featuring Edw ard Everctt Hortou, H. B, \Yarnei\ Jaue Wyatt, Margo, John Howard. Thoinas Mitchell, Isabel Jewell, and Sam Jaffe, the pieture is an adajitation by Eobert Eiskin of James Hilton 's celebrated novel of the samo naine. , . ' Bricily, the story of 44Lost Horizon" eoncorns fivo persons tvho aro-kiduupped in an aeroplane in Ghina, and flown , deep intp the heart of Forbidden Tibet. Picked up by a caravan lieaded by a iuystic and elderly Chinese, tkey are escorted to what is iierhaps the mdst uuusual placo on the face of Ihe earth — the lamasery of Shangri-La. Here, closcted securely by mouiltaius> impenctrable to the unjnitiated, is a sctting .of .indescribable beauty and scirenity, peopled by members of the strangest cult of modern times. Eomance and adventure fall to the bewildered kidnap victims, and eoon, all but one surr.ender to the utter contentment and rare loveliness that is Shangri-La.
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 179, 16 August 1937, Page 10
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