Word: michaels
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...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 be missed...
...ancestor referred to is Captain Michael Cresap. No one has an ancestor in whom he takes more pride than I take in Captain Michael. He was an Indian fighter of rare courage. He took part in Dunmore's War in 1774 and drove the Indians from the frontiers of Virginia, Maryland and Pennsylvania back into Ohio. At the treaty of peace, Cresap was accused of having murdered the family of a friendly Indian named Logan. He paid no attention to the charges and soon was summoned to raise a company of riflemen for the Revolutionary War. His company marched...
Twenty-five years after Cresap's death, Thomas Jefferson published his Notes on Virginia. In them he criticized the white settlers for their inhuman treatment of Indians and he used as an illustration the alleged murder of a friendly Indian family by Captain Michael Cresap. That charge has been answered time and again. First by John Jacobs in 1820, second by Brantz Mayer, a Baltimore lawyer, in 1851, and finally by Professor James A. James, of Northwestern University, in his life of George Rogers Clark. Dr. James discovered that George Rogers Clark and Captain Cresap were together...
...Director Michael Curtiz keeps his picture off the ground by his comic talent supplied by Guy Kibbee as the country doctor and the doc's fiancee of twenty years, Margaret Hamilton. Mona Barrie and the amiable Fuzzy Knight do creditably in somewhat conventional supplementing roles...
...Soldier and the Lady" brings to the screen Jules Verne's great novel, "Michael Strogoff." Akim Tamiroff as the sinister and ambitious Ogareff, Anton Walbrook as Strogoff, and Elizabeth Allen as Nadia carry difficult parts with the utmost conviction. The story of the rebellion against the Czar by Ogareff and Strogoff's efforts to frustrate it is well known to lovers of Jules Verne. The program at the University for the balance of the week is one of the best to appear there for many moons since both features rival in excellence...