Salt Lake Telegram | 1928-11-29 | Page 15 | Compelling South Sea Drama Scores on Pantages Bill

Compelling SouthSea South Sea Dl Drama Diama ama Scores on P Pantages n nages ages Bill Filmed in in inthe the south Pacific Pacific- among the tue palm fringed atolls of of the he sun White Shadows In the South Seas presents at once once a n beautiful and amazing photographic spectacle and a powerful and compelling com corn pollIng story This picture with late ate and pleasing sound e effect ef- ef I and featuring Monte Blue and Raquel Torres opened Wednesday I at t the Pantages theatre Based on the thc book of the same i name by Frederick OBrien O'Brien White Whito I Shadows In the South Seas de- de more forcefully than th the th book boo ho tho contamination of at the tho happy I peoples of the by the thc whItes whiles Greed for wealth has brought rought th the white man to these Islands and his unscrupulousness unscrupulousness' has as robbed the natives naties of a. a Just share hare of this We wealth The beauty of the photography Inthis In th this his picture would have made It one of the best films of the year even If f the story had been rotten which It t certainly is not A A. young doctor dividing dividing- his love between Alcohol I and the natives is lured aboard a plague ship bound to the wheel I and the ship heads for the sea witha with a crew of dead med meri Wrecked weeks later on a tiny island the doctor finds a spot across which the he white shadow has not yet cast Its ts evil Here his body and soul grow whole again and he falls Inlove Inlove in inove love ove with the daughter of th the chief But he is after all a white and amI therefore greedy lie gathers pearls which are valueless to the natives nathe and lights a signal signa fire flore to attract a ship But his greed is overcome an and 1 flinging the pearls pearis away he puts puls out the fire only aft after r j- jIt It has been sighted by a ship The next nest day the ship owned by a a white trader trade put Into the tIlO Island Against the advice of the doctor dodor the w whites are welcomed welcome 1 and the doctor in a frenzied effort to drive the whites away away is slain Thus the white shadow f falls across new newfields newfields fields and in a short time the de degeneration degeneration de de- generation that will ultimately see sea seethe seethe the extinction of the sets In in It Is a picture that for sheer beauty should not be missed Many natives play in White Shadows and many of ot their customs are accurately accurately ac ac- ac portrayed On the stage the Stanley Brothers and Attree Attlee three acrobats with a number of unique and daring stunts open the bill Much clever dancing is found in the act billed Stars Toda Tomorrow as of Today and featuring the Aalbu Sisters and Carter The two girls score with witha a number of humorous songs For pure p comedy Brady and Mahoney Ma- Ma honey lioney in What Price Rent are the best on the bill Davis and Dawn with Gloria Lee and the Herman Horman Brothers close the bill with a brilliant and snappy dance revue