“LOST HORIZON”

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXI, 1 May 1937, Page 12

“LOST HORIZON”

There is keen interest in the Columbia Frank Capra production, “Lost Horizon,” starring Ronald Cblman, which is due to be released in New Zealand shortly. American critics who have reviewed the film give it great praise and have called it the famous director’s most outstanding contribution to the screen as well as one of the ten best pictures ever made. Columbia expended £400,000 on the making of “Lost Horizon,” which took two years to complete, while Ronald Colman heads a cast that, includes such well-known names as Edward Everett Horton. Jane Wyatt, Isabel Jewell, Margo, and H. B Warner. The production, which is of a giant nature, tells a fantastic story from the pen of the famous English author, James Hilton.

ACTOR PLAYS DOG SUPPLIES “NATURAL” BARK Events break in cycles. So do sound effects, according to Don Winget, Jun., chief sound technician of W.L.W. Within a few days recently Winget’s department was called on for a variety of dog barks. Recorded yelps were used on some, but Sid Sion, actor, imitated a vicious police dog bark in the ‘Unsolved Mysteries,’ when it was found the recorded dog barks were not “natural” enough.

WALT DISNEY MORE FILMS IN TECHN2COLOUR THE STORY OF “SNOW WHITE” Walt Disney has renewed his contract with Technicolour for one year, starting from Ist March. It calls for the production of 18 shorts and one feature, possibly the much-discussed “Snow White,” on which Mr Disney has been engaged for a couple of years or more. The reason why Technicolour did not get a longer contract from Disney is said to be that he has been considering the claims of the Dunning threecolour process, the technique of which has been worked out in London. Mr Dunning is the inventor of the famous background process. The Dunning colour process has been demonstrated in certain British cartoons.

GRACE MOORE’S FILM PLEASES LONDON “When You’re in Love” will make a pile of money for its producers, says a London paper. Grace Moore performs with an engaging charm throughout, being especially effective in comedy sequences. Her songs, ranging from the wiggly hotcha’s of “Minnie the Moocher,” to the sacred strains of Schubert’s Serenade, with two new Jerome Kern-Dorothy Fields items on the side, are all sung gloriously. Cary Grant, in the leading male role, reveals tt'en+s hitherto unsuspected. Further valuable assistance is rendered by Aline MacMahon, Henry Stephenson and Thomas Mitchell.

“GREEN PASTURES” One London paper commenting on “Green Pastures” says it may not be a fault but when the animals went into the Ark he noticed that, instead of one bull and one cow, there were two cows. All the animals I saw going into the Ark were most amusing, including the two mules, but that is what makes “Green Pastures” a negro idea of heaven. These are the homely animals that the Southern negro has about him always. It would be perfectly natural to his untutored mind to save his much prized mules, his two cows from a flood. London newspapers generally pour out praise on “Green Pastures,” one critic saying it is one of the few films ever made which may live in history.