"RAMONA."

Evening Post, Volume CXXII, Issue 132, 1 December 1936, Page 4

"RAMONA."

State Theatre on Friday

The current outstanding event in the film world is the presentation of Helen Hunt Jackson's immortal 'love idyll, "Ramona," produced by 20th CenturyFox in the new perfected technicolour, coming on Friday to the State Theatre. The cast of thousands, featuring Loretta Young and Don Ameche, in-, eludes such brilliant players as Kent Taylor, Pauline Frederick, Jane Darwell, Katherine De Mille, .' Victor Kilian, and John Carra.dine. As long as two years ago, preparations were begun for the picturisation of this beautiful love story. Darryl F. Zanuck,Twentieth Century-Fox studio production chief, spent'nearly an entire year in search of the perfect Ramona. After covering carefully his Own contract list and combing the entire field 'of free-lance players and "unknowns," he felt assured that he had found the fight Ramona when he selected Loretta Young. Scores of eligible players were tested for the rolje of Alessandro, Ramona's great love, and it finally went to Don Ameche. "Ramona" was filmed in the beautiful San Jacinto mountain meadow land of Southern California, the actual spots where Ramona and Alessandro lived and loved many years ago, as described in the story.