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...request of many of his patrons, George Kaska, manager of the Fine Arts, has secured a return engagement of "Man of Aran" and "Power...
Essentially a pictorial film, the present version of "Man of Aran" is more complete than its former self and has been provided with an entire musical score based on Irish folk songs. The struggle of the Aran fishermen against the elements is handled with strong sincerity and complete simplicity by Director Robert Flaherty, and it is here that the strength of the picture lies. Devoid of plot, "Man of Aran" has an innate power that holds one's interest throughout, and the acting of Michael Dillane, King, and Maggic Dirrane is superb. This is a great moving picture that should...
FINE ARTS--Power: 1:10, 4:20, 7:40. Man of Aran: 3:10, 6:30, 9:45. Both excellent...
HERO BREED - Pat Mullen - McBride ($2.50). Author Mullen (Man of Aran) keeps his heroine out of the way to the end so as to give plenty of room for his hard-hitting, quick-tempered Irish fishermen and smugglers...
Held less to stimulate the almost non-existent Italian cinema industry than to attract tourists, the International Motion Picture Exposition in Venice always succeeds in producing mild surprises. Year ago first award went to Man of Aran (TIME, Sept. 24) but the most popular picture at the show was Extase, of which the climax was a close-up of the heroine's face while the rest of her anatomy was occupied in carnal misbehavior (TIME, Aug. 27, 1934, et seq.). Last week the Fascist Party's special prize for "the most artistic" foreign film of the year went...