Paramount Press Books (1918)

J9 Cast and Story of “THE WHITE HEATHER For Use of Exhibitors in Their House Organs or for General Publicity in the Exploitation of this Superb Maurice Tourneur Production A Paramount-Artcraft Special Picture Maurice Tourneur9 s Latest Production, “The White Heather99 Based on Famous Thrilling English Melodrama ■ ; ,<m Remarkable Situations of Great Dramatic Power, With Undersea Views Make This Photoplay a Distinct Artistic Achievement. Lord angus cameron, of the White Heather country, finds himself seriously embarj rassed financially during a panic on the stock exchange, and goes to Donald Cameron on his country estate for a loan. Donald refuses because Angus will not contract a favorable marriage with one of his class. A Under compelling necessity, ruin staring him in the face, Angus decides to rid himself of a secret marriage made with Marion Hume oh board his yacht before it was sunk. Many fathoms under water lies the documentary evidence ; one witness is dead, and the other has long vanished, a sailor on some long voyage. During a hunt he accidentally shoots his own son by this marriage, and this leads to a revela “THE WHITE HEATHER” The Cast. Lord Angus Cameron . .VtT TT E. Herbert Donald Cameron Ben Alexander Alec McClintock .Ralph Graves Matron Hume Mabel Ballin Dick Beach • . ^...Jack Gilbert James Hume. . . , ..-rSpottiswoode Aitken ■ '/ S-VI'g ' tion,' Marion announcing the alliance to protect her injured child. When it is denied by Angus, she goes to her father, James Hume, while two modest admirers search for the missing witness^, in the London haunts of the underworld. David Hume makes a fight in the courts for his daughter’s honor, but the case is lost from lack of evidence, and Hume is ruined on the exchange, dying when Tie is unable to meet his liabilities The missing witness gjg; found, but Angus has not been idle, and; he bribes the witness To disappear: again. There remains only th^j papers on the< sunken yacht, enfj cased in a chest. Diving operaj tions are in progress there. Lord Angus and the two humble* admirers of Marion hasten to thd! ; : i scene. One of the latter goes; down. So does Lord Angus. Thejtj meet at the wreck, Angus armed with a knife. In the struggle he accidentally cuts his own air tube; and is lost. |i The survivor comes back with the ' much-desired "'proofs' of the marriage "‘'and claims Marion for his pwjL, while the other humble admirer dies confessing his love. Maurice Tourneuir’s Picture ‘The White Heather” a Triumph Maurice tourneur’S latest Paramount-Artcraft production, “The White Heather,” scored a triumph at the Theatre yesterday. The story is adapted from the famous Drury Lane melodrama of the same name. The background of this melodrama is divided between the Scotch highlands, the London financial district, the slums and the sea. The narrative chiefly concerns the efforts of an unscrupulous no bleman to repudiate his marriage to a pretty commoner, the only record of the wedding being in the submerged wreck of a yacht. The tale ends in a struggle between the hero and the villain at the bottom of the sea in which both are struggling to obtain the certificate, which is locked in a water-tight chest in the wreckage of the boat. The latest invention of the Williamson Brothers was used by Mr. Tourneur in taking the subsea scenes, and some startling effects were obtained. REVIEW Photographically, the picture is superb. Many of the exterior scenes brought forth applause from the audience, and the spectator will And genuine thrills in the fight between the villain and the hero on the ocean bottom. This feature of the production is in itself well worth seeing. Headed by Mabel Ballin as the heroine, the company includes H. E. Herbert, Ralph Graves, Jack Gilbert, Spottiswoode Aitken, and last but by no means least, little Ben Alexander. 5