Millionaires" Playground Gives "Palm Springs” Background

Manawatu Times, Volume 61, Issue 291, 9 December 1936, Page 11

Millionaires " Playground Gives "Palm Springs” Background

WALTER WANGER DIRECTS ELITE PRODUCTION

(Kosy: Screening To- ( day). The gay life of Palm springs, playground of West Coast millionaires and movie stars, forms the setting of Paramount’s ‘‘Palm Springs,” produced by Walter Wanger.

The name of Palm Springs has become synonymous with the Riviera, the Lido, and other world spots as the ultimate in luxurious idling. Like an oasis out of the Arabian Nights, this modern community is tho winter stamping ground of film stars, industrial magnates, diplomats, social leaders and cosmopolites from everywhere. Here, during the fashionablo ‘‘season” that lasts a few months, celebrities can enjoy every luxury of tho richest metropolis. Hotels, dude ranches, homes of motion picture notables and millionaires, and pleasure haunts dot tho sands into which even Indians hesitated to venture not so many years ago. Winter resorters to-day laze in marble swimming pools- under towering palms in a country where natives and animals once perished of thirst. ‘‘Palm Springs” offers in the stellar roles Frances Langford, Sir Guy Standing, Smith Ballew, Spring Byington and E. E. Clive. This is the first time that the inside story of Palm Springs has been told on the screen.