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Show Why not let us make you ..JHPPi some real swell pictures? Open Sundays from The Ridges Studio ;' Read the Classified Ad. " Head the Classified Aa j next j The Thcalrc Going Public j 7" rl WEEK I Whole armies have seen duels in the air. j j BE But a duel on the ocean's bed a fight to the death between diver9 i w "TH Hv at the bottom of the sea that, up to a few weeks ago, was a ccene ;! I 1 nursaay i Which no one In the world had witnessed. It existed only in the won- M - r- i derful imagination of Maurice Tourncur, the great motion picture pro- S Friday j ducer. J lm Saturdftv Now millions of theatergoers may view this thrilling scene, for Mr, i i H ay journeiJr hat put It Into film form In his latest Paramount-Artcraft i S Special picture "The White Heather," which comes here from next j I Thursday to Saturday. It was taken at the bottom of the Pacific ocean S m i I ) ky cameramen Inside the newly-Invented Williamson submarine appa- I SsSL ratus- ' lb f& I japfflsBx This is Just one of m.iny extraordinary biU of action in tins produc- lwi I jHSjjV tion, which establishes beyond question the international reputation H l of Mr, Tourneur as a producer of massive pictures The dramatic story I j I ', is based on the play of Cecil Raleigh and Henry Hamilton, which ran I MB I S with enormous success at the Drury Lane Theater in London The ? I J$ Sam's lavishness in big scenic effects, the same quality of cast and the I I hQU ( same artistry in production that characterized this director's other fa- ) HJ ( GS I mous pictures, are found in this new triumph JL. H MHmI If your heart is weak, don't come Otherwise be sure to see this I ' B '! 9rPPm9 photoplay. S I j 5 Sincerely yours, j H U 1 MANAGER H. E SKINNER. wwJ I Trade Press Indorses "The White JMAU ICE TOUflNEUI) 1 Heather." All agree that Maurice gS(tg 6PEAT othjpy LAWEuEWnc Tourneur's Paramount-A r t c r a ft -jggt M I i L A J 1 1 1 VM h L'-l 1 j Inf t pBoraaR' i9 CECIL RALEIGH ,mJ HENRY HAMILTON ' H special picture s one of the great jggBg J Paramount-tfrtcm ft Special fl est produced in many years. iya .yiaurke Voumeuj- Productions -fnr.'' S The motion picture trade pa-I pa-I pers as well as the dally journals of New York are most emphatic EH in their expressions of approval BH of Maurice Tourneur's Para-vm Para-vm mount-Artcraft special picture, H "The White Heather," which H was presented with triumphal Bj results at the Rialto theater, H New York. Some of the leading IM viewpoints follow: M INTERESTING UNDERSEA VIEWS. Louis Reeves Harrison, writ-jgl writ-jgl ing in the Motion Picture World, IM has this to say . "English melodrama, strength-j&fl strength-j&fl ened by highly interesting under. bM sea views photographed by the H Williamson submarine tube, H "The White Heather" portrays Em some tremendous efforts to get fl the 'papers' in the case of a H young lady, Marion Hume, who BB married Lord Angus Cameron aboard his yacht by the Scotch In ceremony of declaration before H two witnesses. The document- M ary evidence of the marriage, en- fl closed m water proof wrappings Eg before the yacht was sunk, con- W stitutes the sole protection of jH Marion and her child, as one wit DM ness disappeared in the deep, and the other in the flotsam and jetsam of the London under- H world. 22 "Lord Angus, finding himself i JMJ in serious financial circum- MM stances, urged to marry a wo- I man of wealth, denies his secret CD marriage to Marion, and fights with high bred selfishness to MB make his own son a bastard, a K&j conflict ending in his own death, pB and that cf a lad who tried to B51 clear the young wife's name. S3 Such is the tragic plot of the jH Tourneur production, the theme JfiS embodying venement denuncia- JLw tion of class prejudice in Great P5?j 3ntan. Iwj "Just as Liszt paraphrased WM fcnd transformed a lot of barbaric Ptj Hungarian medolies into rhapso- rSJ dies of beauties, so Tourneur ijjj transforms these Drury Lane JJS melodramas into visualizations QH of scenic charm by consummate HKI skill in accomplishing fine pic- Lj3 ture effects. Some of his exter- 99 iors arc filled with the instinc- rA tive delights of beautiful Innd-scape, Innd-scape, his interiors gems of light- IM ing effects. jSffi Successive audiences appreci- H ated the acting of H. E Her- L'fl bert as Lord Angus, and Mabel tlA Ballin as Marion Hume, and they BJ thoroughly enjoyed Tourneur's Kg artistry of production in con- 9 junction with Rialto skill of pre D sentation, just as they enjoy the j Rialto's orchestral skill of inter B pretation, but interest centered H on the undersea combat as the last of the melodrama, and this They All Agree "The White Heather" is a Wonderful Pic- j ture "Scenes are masterpieces of s their kind." N. Y. Hiraes. "Superb photographically ' N. Y. Telegraph. j S Big feature hit " N. Y. Re- j view. i "Outdoes Jules Verne." N Y. Sun. 5 "Many stirring scenes." N. j Y. Evening Teleegram i "Photographically all that j i can be desired." N. Y. Eve- ning Sun "Story thrilling, photogra- juy uciuuiui. ii i inuiuK,. s "Realistic achievement." N. Y Herald. ' ' Effects thrill and amaze. ' ' j N. Y Evening Post j "Beautiful genre studies " N. Y. Globe. "An absolute masterpiece.' ? Variety "Interesting undersea views. " Motion Picture World ' ' Gripping screen thriller. ' ' Exhibitors' Trade Review. "A splendid picture." Mo j ? tion Picture News. will be the story's chief value to exhibitors generally throughout this country." GRIPPING SCREEN THRILLER Alfred Gleason, a leading reviewer, re-viewer, has this to say in the Exhibitor's Trade Review, one of the leading trade publications: "The Drury Lane melodrama has splendid material for a screen thriller It has an abundance abund-ance of highly flavored action, opportunities for fine outdoor settings, and a gripping story which works out in constantly ascending dramatic values to the powerful climax in a submarine fight between the hero and the villain, cS'Kainly the ultimate in melodramatic action. "For the recording of this episode epi-sode the Williamson submarine photographic patents were used, and the fact that the smashing dramatic incident is adequately recorded on the screen goes a long way in giving the story a punch" that undoubtedly will carry it to success anywhere. "However, the photoplay does not depend solely upon the one I incident for its power. Inde- I pendent of the novel submarine I fight, it has a capital story that I justifies itself as cinema mate- I rial, and the climax is rather a Be feature addded for good meas- I ure to a picture already interest- I ing and at times absorbing. "Several 'Shots' of the dogs I pointing the game were splen- g did. There arc passages on the u9 London Stock Exchanges, where I the director has brought about HQ some fine mob effects, and the I search through the underworld of London for the missing wit- I ness involves numerous flashes I of types and picture effects By which are well managed. ' The feature without a 'big H star name, but the playing at all I times is well balanced and in- I deed works to the advantage of EM I h nirtiir n r 'rt n q ctir i f IH 1 hide would not. Arguments I against the star system would 9 find support in the satisfactory HJ working out of the plan employ- SB cd m the present case No char- HJ .ictcr is given a monopoly of the HJ t' I center of interest, but each fits HJ into the complete narrative in HJ balanced proportion. "The Tourenur scheme has HJ the advantage that it leaves the t3 director a free hand in his single- 2& minded purpose of interesting an HJ audience. A SPLENDID PICTURE The New York Motion Picture jflj News says ' The White Heather" I is a splendid picture. The f ol- HJ lowing is worth while: '"The White Heather,' so has U been chronicled in Mot, on Pie ture News, is a splendid picture Hi adapted from the Drury Lane HJ melodrama. The title comes JH from the good luck flower of the HJ Scotch highlands, the white BJ heather The action centers HJ H around the recovery of a mar- HJ rlagc record from the hulk of a HJ destroyed yacht, called "The HI White Heather" The big scenes HJ j of the melodrama take place at HJ l the bottom of the sea, where the 301 I hero and the villain, in the weird BS ' costumes of deep r?a divers, jrfl fight to the death on the ocean HJ floor. "Thus the thrilling portion of HJ "The White Heather" has the Rfl bottom of the sea for its back- 1 ground For those scenes Mr. jaw i Tourneur emploed the newest S inventions of the Williamson HJ Brothers, whose sub-sea photog- Hj raphy devices are famous Much 3k of the story centers in London, HJ revolving between the financial HJ ( district and the slums. In the HJ ! scenes "on change" Mr Tour- HJ I neur employed thousands of HJ players." Mb |