“RAMONA”

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 288, 25 February 1928, Page 14

“RAMONA”

GREAT AMERICAN PICTURE A vast biscuit factory has been constructed around the little adobe hacienda wherein Mrs. Helen Hunt Jackson obtained most of the material for “Ramona,” her noval of the American Indian. This story is being filmed by United Artists, with Delores del Rio starred. The biscuit factory, says the United Artists, is owned by an early California settler who had so much respect for the history surrounding the hacienda that he arranged for his contractors to build his factory around the venerated adobe building. It was the De Coronell family which occupied the hacifu Wlien Irs - Jackson came irom the East to California, bent on telling America the tale of the poor Indian* %

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