REGENT THEATRE
■ ' "LOST HOEIZON." That which is one. of . the most important screen events of the year takes place at the Kegent Theatre to-night, where Frank Capra's suprerae directorial effort, "Lost Horizon," makes its bow. Starring Eonald Colman, and featuring Edward Everett Horton, H. B. VVarner^ Jane Wyatt, 'Margo, John Howard, Thomas Mitchell, Isabel Jewell, and Sam Jaffe, tho picture is an . adaptation by Eobert Eiskin of James Hilton 's celebrated novel of the same name. , Briefly/the story of "Lost Horizon" concerns flye persons who are kidnapped in an aeroplane in China, and flown deep into the heart of Eorbidden Tibet. Picked up by a caravan headed by a mystic and elderly Chinese, they are escorted to what 'is perhaps the most nnusual place on the face of the earth — the lamasery of Shangri-La. Here, closeted securely by mountains impenetrable to tho uninitiated, is a setting of indescribable beauty and serenity, peopled by members of the strangest cult of modern times. Eomance and adventure fall- to the' bewildered kidnap victims, and eoon, all but one surrender to the utter contentment and rare loveliness that is Shangri-La.
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 182, 19 August 1937, Page 8
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186REGENT THEATRE Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 182, 19 August 1937, Page 8
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