COLOUR GLORIFIES FILM.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 29 June 1937, Page 4

COLOUR GLORIFIES FILM.

“RAMONA” AT REGENT. WORLD’S GREATEST LOVE STORY. Tremendously effective because it is absolutely and indisputably true to life, the, now perfected technicolour makes a charming film of “Ramona,” which opens to-night at the Regent Treatre. This is one of the most important pictures of the year, an exciting pieturisation of Helen Hunt’s immortal love story. Loretta Young is featured as Ramona, with Don Ameche as Alessandro, and the splendid supporting cast includes such players as Kent Taylor, Pauline Frederick, Jane Harwell, Katherine De Mille and John Carradine. In addition, hundreds of persons were recruited, from the Mesa Grande district representing settlers and local characters. “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. The main location was a on,ooo-acre ranch in the Mesa Grande area, about 140 miles southeast of Los Angeles. The site is an almost endless succession of green expanses rolling toward the dusty purple of the far-off mountains, every shade and tint defined in the clear, dry air, lending itself perfectly to the new Technicolour photography.