Wax figure of Alessandro and Ramona - Ramona Outdoor Play, Hemet
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- Source:
- Los Angeles Public Library
- Collection:
- Eyre Powell Chamber of Commerce Collection
- Date:
- Unknown date
- Description:
- View of wax figures depicting Alessandro and Ramona, key figures of the famed Ramona Outdoor Play in the colorful Ramona Bowl in Hemet. The novel, set in Southern California shortly after the Mexican-American War, follows the life of Ramona, a part-Scottish, part-Indian orphan girl that is raised by her foster mother's sister, Señora Gonzaga Moreno. The Indian maiden Ramona falls in love with Alessandro, a young Indian sheepherder who is also the son of the Chief of the tribe. Soon after, Ramona and Alessandro elope to the chagrin of Señora Gonzaga Moreno; have a daughter; endure hardship and misery; with Alessandro eventually losing his mind and being killed, leaving Ramona to find a new love in Felipe Moreno, Señora Gonzaga Moreno's only son. This immensely popular novel has had more than 300 printings, has been made into four film versions, and has been performed as an annual outdoor play since 1923, with only brief interruptions during the Depression and during World War II. The people of Hemet and San Jacinto have presented this spectacular dramatization of Helen Hunt Jackson's immortal love story, which is said to take place on the actual locale of the historical facts in the play.
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