DREAM COMES TRUE.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 10 September 1937, Page 4

DREAM COMES TRUE.

“LOST HORIZON” AT BEGENT. LONG-AWAITED FILM. With the picturisation of James Hilton’s novel, “Lost Horizon,” finally scheduled to appear to-night at the jEegent theatre, the words of its creator, j Prank Capra, spoken shortly after the | start of production, are brought to mind. “I read ‘Lost Horizon’ when it .was first published,” said Capra, “and immediately I wanted to do it. I saw in the book one of the most important pieces of literature in the last decade. The story had bigness. It held a mirror up to the thoughts of every human being on earth. It held something of Any story that reaches into the hearts and minds of all humanity is a story that can be put on the screen successfully as good entertainment.” Then Capra went ahead and spent more of Columbia’s money than had been spent on any other film made by that company. Capra hand-picked the east. He had to wait a year to get Eonald Colman, but that didn’t bother him; Colman was the only man for the part. One by one, the director-producer selected Edward Everett Horton, H. B. Warner, Jane Wyatt, Sam Jaffe, Margo, John Howard, Thomas Mitchell, Isabel Jewell and scores of- players for lesser roles. Hundreds of extras were added for the huge scenes. The central setting of the story, the Shangri-La Lamasery, is the largest and most elaborate ever built in Hollywood. Painstaking research was accorded every production detail, as the scene is mysterious Tibet, unknown to any but a few white men. One of these, American explorer Harrison Porman, acted as techincal advisor on the film.