The Portland daily press., 1898-11-24
THE WHITE HEATHER.
A Brilliant Spectacular NIelodrama at the
jefferson,

that drew such crowded houses when pro-
duced in this city last seasons puo
,,,acbanical effects are on "a mucn nore
elaborate scale. and it's scenic oeauDies u
an unusually high order. % oA
are these mimic scenes ana bneir Aa9'.s
that ten stage carpenters have peeh az ono
JefYersou since Monday last preparing
for their reception.
The cast of characters OF Wnlse heDnael
80 Ianat Maclintook. Rose Coghlan
Marion Hume. uiaS S,..-a No.
Ta5v Mollie Fanshaw, O.se nay
la Hermoine de Vaux, Sara Maclaren
The Hon. Blanche Rossiter, Alice Arnold
Donald, pl 49, 4,,h Had I'd
Lady Lumley, noso Hu' Set
Mrs. Andrews, MRS. 49,
Lord Angus Cameron, John l. sullivan
Edgar Trefusis, pfeu I1h,X
Can't, Alec Maclintock, wallace S1inppo4lt.
19IIs Paach Richard Bennett
LIVE D u,,,na Thomas Mct5rath
Captain Dewar Gay, neipeto 1s5
Horace Saxonby, morgan CooE
IT, MITE III Shetland. Charles Rowan
ny p A. Nannery
ne. PIake Harry Lillford
a. Craxan douglas LLOYD
u,,dson Charles j. wilson
d nuuson' George Schaeffer
The White Heather is the name Oh Loru
Angus Cameron'a yacht.
Like all well regulated macnlne-haae
melo-dramas the play contains the USUAL
Quota of long suffering but ultimately
rriumnhant virtue, while yillainy, which
has everything it's own way through 'ne
entire scenic panorama, is compiee1iS
frustrated just before the hnal cur VAIL.
Lord Angus Cameron, dime hoseA
noblemap. contracts Scotch marrlago
with Marion Hume, the daughter VI
James Hume, once a Scotch 'gillie. pu5
afterwards member of the Stock ok,
change. An ordinary marriage wouia NOV
do in melo-drama, SO the couple are sup
,,osod Tn be welded ON board his lord
ships yacht before the play opens. Inc
YACHT has gone to the bottom OF the sea,
and sailor, Hudson by name the only
witness to the marriage contract, has dis
Appeared in some other direction Inc
marriage seems TO have been Kept secret
for Lord Angus gets himself into peck
of trouble because he denies that the mar
rage has ever taken place. This BASTARD
" conduct on bis part is prompted by
desire to marry the wealthy Lady Her.
monte de Vaux.
When Marion brings suit against LORD
Angus, he ruins her father on the STOCK
Exchange. but Marion's case is taken up
by Lady Jane Maclintocks Then his lord
shin GETS desperate. 1t seems that GER
tain Captain Alec Maclintock has long
been in love with the fair Marion. Alec
knows that record of the marriage has
heen made in the log book OF The White
Heather. All this leads up to the sensa-
tionaI scene of the melo-dranla. Lord
Angus and Alec both resolve TO secure the
log book. His lordship manages to silence
Hudson when he turns up, and reaches
the wreck of The White Heather before
his rival. AS he is unable to secure a
professional diver, he does little diving
on his own account. Alec, however, sends
Dick Beach, another of Marion's ad
mirsrs, after his lordship; and they have
a lively time of it at the bottom of the
sea, Dick deprives Lord Angus OF the
Cherished log book, and is duly stabbed,
whereupon Dick does the same thing to
his lordship. At all events. the noble lord
is drowned or asphyxiated. The log book
record establishes everything in regard to
the plot that the audience knew from the
start. and the devoted Alec is thus en-
abled to settle Gown to matrimonial
serenity with the fair Marion without
any immediate prospect of further melo-
dramatic trouble.
There are twelve scenes and not only
ara they perfect creations of the artists
brush, but they are also in several cases,
of completely in their mechanism that
exeites the greatest astonishment and
admiration. This is particularly the case
In the opening scene of the sunrise, with
the mist rising, on the Scotch moor, and
the great scene Under the Waters of the
EARTH where Lord Angus and Dick in
their divers suits fight their terrible
duel. The scene in the Stock Exchange is
excellently handled, and the grand ball
at Devonshire house at the end of the play
is a succession of gorgeous costumes,
sEThe play itself, although melo-drama,
Is handled in excell emit style. 1t is much
mora logical in some respects than most
of its class, and its situations are strong
without being strained.
Miss Rose Coghlan was the bright
particular star of the cast. Her part
fitted her like glove. She was bluff,
good natured Lady Janet and she had
plenty OF bright sayings at her tongues
and. Miss Grace Thorne, as Marion, had
a rather doleful part to carry, but she did
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