Word: housemaids
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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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...
...buxom German housemaid, trapped by the flames, was coaxed by Jackson to slide precariously down a drain pipe...
...Brooklyn, arrested for turning in false fire alarms, Julia Callahan, 27, housemaid, said she would keep on until the City of New York indemnified her for live teeth knocked out by a fireman in 1929 when she playfully turned in a false alarm...
...mystery story which keeps a straight face. "Who killed Herbert Wynne?" is the question at the beginning. Mystery loves company and the murderer might have been: a butler with exaggerated hands, an old woman who lies grunting on her deathbed, a peeping-Tom physician, a mumbling housemaid, an arrogant young man, one of two immoral young girls, or a lawyer who wears pince-nez spectacles and casts a tremendously large shadow. On the other hand, young Herbert Wynne might have killed himself. The only persons in the cast not suspected of the crime are a detective sergeant (George Brent...
Noah, at least the story goes, was caught by Mrs. Webster in a somewhat compromising situation with the housemaid. "Why Noah." she exclaimed. "I am surprised"; to which he replied "No dear, / am surprised. You are astonished...