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«'LOST HORIZON." That which is one of the most iiuportant screen events of tho year takss place at tho Kegent Theatre to-night, where Frank Capra's supreme directorial effort, "Lo-st Horizon," makes its bow. Starring Ronald Colman, and featuring Edward Everett Horton, H. B, Warner^ Jane Wyatt, Margo, John Howard^ Thomas Mitchell, Isabel Jewell, and Sam Jaffe, the picture is an adaptation by Robert Biskin of James Hilton 'a celebrated novel of the same name. Briefiy, the story of "Lost Horizon" concerns flve persons who are kidnapped Ln an aeroplane in China, and flown deep into the heart of Forbidden Tibet. Picked up by a caravan headed by a mystic and- elderly Chinese, they are ©scorted to what is perhaps the most' unusual place on the face of the earth — the lamasery of Shangri-La. Here, closoted securely by mountains impenetrable to the uninitiated, is a setting of indescribablo beauty aud serenity, peopled by members oJf ■ tho strangest cult of ruodefn times. Bomance and adventure fall to the bewildered kidnap victims, and soon, all but oqe surrender to the utter contentment and rare loveliness that is Shangri-La'.
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 180, 17 August 1937, Page 4
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