Lost Horizon

Lutz presents Hollywood. The Lutz Radio Theatre brings you Ronald Coleman in Lost Horizon with Donald Crisp and Lynn Carver. Ladies and gentlemen, your producer, Mr. Cecil B. DeMille. Greetings from Hollywood, ladies and gentlemen.

Tonight's play gave the language a new word for an old dream. The word is Shangri-La, the name of the beautiful far country in James Hilton's novel, Lost Horizon. And the dream is man's eternal vision of a land completely civilized, peaceful and free.

High in the rugged mountains of Tibet, lies Shangri-La, a world apart from war and rumors of war. Whole century is ahead of its time. But even the best of all possible worlds must have people, and people will always be human.

That's what makes Mr. Hilton's magnificent adventure tale a fine human drama, and the story of a very human love, too. If you saw Lost Horizon on the screen, you wouldn't picture anyone else but Ronald Coleman in the starring role, and neither could we.

I still have the many fine letters you wrote about his performance here last year in libel, and I believe this play will inspire you even more. With Ronald Coleman you'll hear Donald Crisp and Lynn Carver, as two of the people that are part of the strange story of Shangri-La.

And luck soap by the way will be perfectly at home with Mr. Hilton's globe trotting play tonight. Right next to the distant mountains where our story takes place is Turkestan, a wild, forbidding, sparsely inhabited country.

Just the other night, Mrs. Demill and I were reading a book written by an adventurous gentleman who'd traveled straight across Tecostan on horseback. Far up in the Himalaya Mountains, his party stopped for the night at a native home, and following the custom of the country, he gave a present to the three ladies of the household. He gave them each one cake of Lux