Word: eskimo
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's W. S. ("Woody") Van Dyke (White Shadows in the South Seas, Trader Horn, Eskimo) dislikes being pigeonholed as a "location-director." Yet such he was until he made The Prizefighter and the Lady last autumn. Since then he has made Manhattan Melodrama and The Thin Man, both smash hits. He rarely makes more than two "takes" of a scene; many directors make a dozen. He is a reserve captain in the Marine Corps. Most of his friends are military officers. Military maneuvres are his hobby and he maps out his pictures like a general planning...
...Eskimo is not one of the languages written by King George but he lately signed a message in Eskimo to his Innuit subjects in the Hudson Bay country. Last week the message was released as Governor Patrick Ashley Cooper of Hudson's Bay Co. was on a 10,000-mile tour of trading posts in the remote North. Text...
Rockwell Kent sailed for Unamak, Greenland, where he will paint, write, live mostly on shark, seal & whale, initiate his 13-year-old son Gordon into Eskimo life. Said Artist Kent: "A very fine people, the Greenlanders. All marvelous physical specimens. . . . Their personal lives are free and unrestrained. . . . Their social life is a riot. If it weren't for the necessities of getting a living, they'd dance all the time, all night and every night...
...film, as the title and the press blurbs indicate, is an attempt to record the social structure of savage arctic communities; coupled with this aim, as one expects, there is a human story, that of the life of Mala, chief hunter of one Eskimo village. The role of Mala is taken by Francis Lederer, while all the other parts, with the exception of a few Canadian police and sailors who enter the story briefly, are played by genuine Eskimos. Naturally, Mala's life is not a complicated one: he eats and sleeps and lies down with the ladies; and that...
...other motive of the picture, as I remarked above, is to show the social structure of the Eskimo colonies. I cannot, of course, vouch for the accuracy with which this has been done; I imagine that the whole sequence has been rendered a bit too idyllic and too pleasantly pastoral to be an exact study, such as one might find in Prof. Tarbottom's third Ph.D. thesis on "Brow-ridge Variation in the Eskimo, with Concomitant Hypertrophy of the Frontal Sinuses." For all that, the photography is superb, the selection of scenes is accurate, and a coherent picture, a beautiful...