New-York tribune., 1919-05-05
On the Screen
Fights Villainy at the
Bottom of the Sea at
the Rialto

When we were three years old we
went to see stock company play "The
Two Orphans" and our taste was set.
Ever after we refused to be taken TO
the theatre unless there were mvs-
terles, cases of mistaken identity and
girls who said, "Although 1 wear no
wedding ring l am an honest woman.
Lord Spottiswood married me unbe-
knownst to his family and this is little
Cyril, our beloved chee-ild."
But Of such things as we saw yes
terday at the Rialto in Maurice
Tourneur's production of N$he White
heather" we never dreamed. Think
OF having to go to the bottom of the
sea to prove that she really was an
"honest woman!" And think of the
villain! Instead of being shot by
someone who mistook him for fox.
or coming cropper and breaking his
neck, he dies on the floor of the ocean
after cutting his own air line in a
furious battle with the hero in the
hulk of an old ship.
put mere we are, running along and
telling the last part first, because it
is fresh IN our memory.
ii. E. Herbert hays Lord Angus
Cameron, and we rather fancied him.
ourself SO we hated to see him living
on the bottom of the ocean done up in
Divers suit while his wife married
another man.
TO begin at the beginning. Lord
angus married Marian Hume six years
before the story starts on the screen
But he desires her to keep it secret
ana she does so even after little Don
all appears on the scene to complicate
matters. Angus and Marian had been
Marfled OH yacht. "The White
Heather,' and as the yacht had gone
down IN gale the following season.
Marian could not prove her claim to
the title nor her right to wear q we'd
ding ring.
But Marian had two men who loved
her, Alec McClintock and Dick Beach,
so When the judge said "the marriage
r IS Illegal unless you produce the writ
ten evidence" each set out to find il in
his own way
Alec located the captain Of the YES
sci but, after admitting that the Ger
1lhcate had been in his log box and
mad gone down with the boat, he re-
fused to have anything to do with the
case. "-'-- '-'e
But Dick resolves to dive for it and
Lord Angus, rather than have the rec
ora produced, dives, too, and thew meet
IN the hulk of the vessel, and q ter
rlple hight takes place in which his
iordshlp very considerably cuts off his
own air supply by mistake.
ihese scenes are the real thing be-
cause cil!,; they were photographed with the
Williamson submarine device WI wb il'I inb
was used in the Williamson Brothers
ocean pictures
Little Ben Alexander, who played in
Hearts of the World" is Donald Cam
eron. He is charming child and we
are sure he has nice manners at home
Mr. Tourneur's picture was taken
from the famous Drury Lane melo-
Drama. 1t is thrilling story and the
photography is beautiful. The cast
has Mabel Ballin as the girl. Ralnh
Graves as Alec, Jack Gilbert as Dick
and Spottiswood Aitken as James
Hume. '''-- -
The Bohemian Girl" was plaved as
an overture with Hugo Reesenfeld and
Nat Flnston conducting. Eduardo All.
oano and Emanuel List sang the duet
from II Puritani" and GLADYS Rice
sang bonnie Sweet Bessie" There is
a Bruce scenic called "The Pale pack
Tram" comedy cartoon, Judge
Rheumatism," and the Rialto Mara-
zine.
Ihe programme at the Rivoli The
atro this weak 10 -