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Chief prize of the exhibition, the Mussolini Cup for the best foreign film, went to a decorous, highly instructive spool entitled Man of Aran...
Produced by Gainsborough Pictures, filmed on a tiny island off the west coast of Ireland, Man of Aran was rehearsed, directed, filmed, developed, printed and cut by a U. S. citizen-the same Robert J. Flaherty who made a great cinema reputation with his Nanook of the North and Moana of the South Seas...
Like those two films, Man of Aran has only a rudimentary plot and no professional actors. Relying on superb photography, a strapping fishwife named Maggie Dirrane (who acted as Flaherty's housemaid between scenes), a handsome child named Michael and a curly-haired fisherman known as Tiger King, the film shows the daily life of the Aran Islanders, their barren homes where garden soil must be gathered in baskets from crevices in the rock, their frail seagoing curraghs of tarred skins stretched over basketwork frames. High spot in the film is the harpooning of a 30-ft. basking shark...
...Eamon de Valera deigned to pay his first visit to a cinema in Ireland for the film's premiere in Dublin.. Most of the Irish Free State Cabinet was also on hand. And smiling behind the fluttering ribbons of his glasses went William Butler Yeats. Man of Aran has not yet been released...
...been said that no one else has ever seen it. The same comment could be made on Authoress Roberts' Kentucky. Her Kentuckians, their ways of speaking and their goings-on, are as much a sublimation of actual Kentucky as the late John Millington Synge's Aran Islanders were of the Irish. This collection of seven short stories (of which only three have not before been published) will help fence in more securely her well-established claim to her Kentucky cloudland. Readers who pine for action had best look elsewhere. Nothing much happens in these stories; they...