"LOST HORIZON."

Evening Post, Volume CXXII, Issue 68, 17 September 1936, Page 21

"LOST HORIZON."

Great pictures may come and great pictures may go, but in the Hollywood Studios of Columbia Pictures there is being'built' a monument of motion picture production which will undoubtedly go down in picture history as a great achievement. For over two years it has been planned, and by the time that it is presented for criticism it will have been a year in the making. It is now nearing completion. It will be known to the world as "Lost Horizon" and it is being achieved through the collaboration pf master minds of the picture industry. Naturally, Frank Capra, Columbia's ace director, has been entrusted with the responsibility of directing, and Robert Riskin, Hollywood's foremost writer, is handling the story. "Lost Horizon" is one of the very few pictures that has not been shot to schedule. The committee in charge gave all those concerned in the production ad; lib. on time and money. In securing Ronald Colman for the lead, no expense was spared, and it meant that -he had to be available for an unlimited time, '■■ thus preventing him from committing himself to any definite date for any other picture. The cost schedule to date has reached £400,000.