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' "LOST HORIZON." That which is one of the most important screen events of the year tak?s place at the Regeut Theatre to-nigiit, where Frank Capra's 6upreme directorial effort, • "Lost Horizon," makes its bow. Sta'rring Ronald Colman, and featuring Edward Everett Horton, H. B. Warner, Jane ,Wyatt, Margo, John Howard, Thomas Mitchell, Isaboi Jewell, and Sam Jaffe, tho picture is an adaptation by Robert Riskin of James Hilton 7s celebrated novel of the same oame. Briefly, the story of "Lost Horikon" concerns five persons who are kidnapped In an aeroplane in China, and flown deep into the heart of Forbidden Tiber. Picked up' by a caravan lieaded by a mystic and elderly Chinese, they are escorted to what is perhaps the most unusual place on the face of the earth — the lamasery of Shangri-La. Here, closeted securely by mountains impenetrable to the uninitiated, is a settiug of indescribable beauty and sei'enity, peopled by members of the strangest cult of modcrn times. Romance ahrj adventure fall to the bewildered kidnap victims, and . 60on, all brt one surrender to the utter contentmcut and rare loveliness that is Shangri-La.
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 181, 18 August 1937, Page 8
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187REGENT THEATRE Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 181, 18 August 1937, Page 8
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