Silver Screen (Apr-Sep 1936)

SlL read James Hilton's "Lost Horizon," and immediately was consumed with a desire to appear in the production should it ever reach the screen. Then . . . wonder of wonders, Frank Capra sent for her, to test her for one of the important parts in the picturization of the book. Almost concurrently with this action, her father began to regain his eyesight. Moreover, out of a clear sky the owner of the house she had been eating her heart out to occupy, since first she had entered it two years previously, decided to go to Europe and offered the picturesque little bungalow to Isabel. And . . . Capra, for whom she would give years off her life to act, gave her the part in "Lost Horizon"! Lost horizon? Found horizon! Peculiarly, a strange parallel is to be drawn between Isabel Jewell, the actress, and Isabel Jewell, as Gloria Stone, in the production of "Lost Horizon." Both have been searching for peace of soul and attainment of ambition, and simultaneously both find these qualities. All the more wonderful is the fact that Isabel Jewell, the woman, arrived at her goal, as she was enacting the part of the girl in the picture, with a similar object in mind. As you undoubtedly know, "Lost Horizon" has topped all best-selling book lists for months. Its translation onto the screen is a worthy, but daring, feat. Telling a deeply-moving story of a group of persons who have found real peace, most of the action of the picture unfolds high up in inner Tibet, in Shangri-La, whither Isabel Jewell, Ronald Colman, star of the picture, John Howard, Edward Everett Horton and Thomas Mitchell have been borne via airplane . . . kidnapped as they were evacuating Baskul, a settlement somewhere on ' the Chinese frontier, before an approaching horde of ravishing native demons. Ruled by a High Lama, who is said to be three hundred years old, Shangri-La is a garden of contentment, a spot free from the greed and fears of a world gone mad with avarice, where life goes on forever. Into this idyllic state the little group is transplanted. Colman, a famous explorer held high in the esteem of the British Empire, learns that he has been abducted at the suggestion of Jane Wyatt, a girl who has read his books and gleaned from them that he was a man searching for peace . . . one who needed Shangri-La. "The purpose of Shangri-La," Colman is told by the High Lama, "is to preserve the treasures of beauty. The time will come when brutality and lust for power must perish by its own sword. It is against that time that you were brought here. You cannot leave." This rather formidable and philosophical but intensely fascinating premise has been taken by Director Capra and Robert Riskin, his scenarist, and woven into a script proclaimed by all who have read it as one of the most complete works ever to be fashioned into a picture. Certainly Frank Capra is exerting every force at his very facile command and from all indications the finished film will be one of the great pictures of the season. "The mystic spell of the book seemed to extend even to the players," Isabel, who plays the best role of her career, observes, in touching upon the merits of the production. "I have never worked with a cast, either on the stage or screen, so imbued with an established mood. We were swayed by the book, but under Frank Capra's direction ... we were inspired." "Lost Horizon" is a fitting climax to the directorial career thus far of the Academywinning Frank Capra. But, more particularly, it strikes its shaft straight home in the life of Isabel Jewell. Isabel has found her own Shangri-La! ver Screen for September 1936 FAMILY DOCTORS KNOW THAT VERY OFTEN.. 77 ## "Inco/mpatiblb For years, countless women have depended on "Lysol" as a means of antiseptic feminine hygiene . . . 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