AMUSEMENTS.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XLV, Issue 12017, 26 March 1920, Page 8

AMUSEMENTS.

MARTON—TD-NIGHT. “THE WHITE HEATHER.” A scene of tremendous dramatic power is that in which two men engage in a death straggle on the floor of the ocean In Maurice Tourneur’s latest Paramount-Artcraft special picture, “The White Heather,” which will be screened at Everybody’s to-night. “The White Heather” is adapted from the Drury Lane melodrama. Indirectly, the title comes from the good luck flower of the Scotch Highlands, the white heather Yet Scotland.is the background for but a part—and a minor part of the melodrama. The action centres around., the recovery of a marriage record from the hulk of a destroyed yacht, called “The White Heatlier.” The big scene of the melodrama takes place at the bottom of the sea, where the hero and the villain, in the weird costumes of deep sea divers, fight to the death. Tims the thrilling portion of “The White Heather” has the bottom of. the sea for its background. For those scenes Mr Tourneur employed the newest inventions of the Williamson Brothers, whose subsea photography devices made possible the visualisation of under the water scenes. Either be early or book a seat at Mogridge^-s,