The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1898-11-30
THE WHITE HEATHER"
A Capital MeIodrama and Thrilling
Scenic Sensation.

| it is a matter of sincere regret that
the blizzard deprived Worcester Of one
| performance Of THE White Heather, %
| for now there remain but two more
chances to see q thoroughly good Old
| fashioned melodrama, enhanced by
the most sensational example Of scenic
realism that has ever appeared on the
local stage, a scene so creepy and
startingly natural that hardened vet
Grams in stage craft shudderad and
watched with breathless intensity ev-
cry movement and few susceptible
feminine spectators were so far over
come as to require restorative assist
ance.
From its opening scene on Scottish
moor with rich, light effects and live
sheep capering around to the final
grand picture OF fancy all in Il mag
niticent hall with guests resplendent III
jewels and medieval costumes, the play
is a triumph of scenic art. The authors
have furnished a well constructed
story, simple but strong enough to car
~ the interest through the requisite.
four acts, with enough good charactoc
parts to make opportunities for capable
players and wisely left The rest to the
liberality Of the producer
The White Heather is the work of
Cecil Raleigh and Henry Hamilton, the
authors of THE Sporting Duchess" Il
is a peculiar fact that while an Amer
lean of average attainments considers
himself capable by himself of any sort
of dramatic authorship, the English
seem to do their playWriting in groups
OF two or more. Whether this be that
OT1fe 1rriy, it.
tensive enough to allow him to cope
with whole drama singe-handed or
because the English play is too mas
sive for any single intellect unassisted,
is an admirable topic for debating So
cieties
The story concerns Lord Angus Cam
eron, who having welded Marion
Hume, the daughter of a former ten
ant, seeks to deny the marriage in or
der TO be free to wed an heiress aud
free himself from financial difficulties
As the marriage was a Scotch one and
kept secret, the wronged wife finds ii
difficult to prove her case especially as
the only living witness has disappeared
me contest between husband and wife
brings about series Of interesting in
cldents and eliminates in a struggle at
the bottom Of the ocean between two
dlVers for the possession of the mar
mage register winch has sunk with q
foundered yacht.
This is the great scene of the plsv
Inc diver (Lord Angus hmself) stands
ON the deck Of his small craft sur
rounded by his assistants. He RECEIVES
instructions regarding the signals and
the management of the life line which
ne is warned must never become cross.
ed or cut, or death would be immediate
He slowly dons the Divers helmet
ana suit and prepares to descend Tho
men above pay out the line. and he
goes down, down, down throupb tbo
green transparent waters Soon huge
llsh and sea monsters appear swimmi5e
ABOUT then coral heaps and bushy ma
filne vegetable growths are seen. and be
mas reached bottom and the wreck he
searches eagerly for the hidden cbast
and the log-book whose destruction viii
make him free and wealthy man
When a second diver is let down--fbe
champion Of the injured wife IVA
Angus has the box, the other seizes II
and desperate, silent struggle ensuas
lasting probably so seconds, though II
seems as many minutes. A knife is
drawn. The struggle is fiercer the