BRITANNIA
“ROSE OF THE GOLDEN WEST” The bells which ring: in the mission scenes of “Rose of the Golden West,” the colourful epic now at the Britannia Theatre, are among th 3 oldest in America. These bells hang in the missions of California, and were brought originally •rom Spain to When the Mission Fathers set out to colonise and convert the California Indians th e y brought these belis for their missions from Mexico. These bellr have been ringing vespers for more than 150 years in California, and wore used in churches in Mexico many years before that. ’*R os e of the Golden West,” a George Fitzmaurice Production for Fir3t National Pictures, Marv Astor. Gilbert Roland, •Montagu Love. Gustav von SeyfCertitz and Flora Finch.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 254, 17 January 1928, Page 15
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