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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...
...Territory's most sensational criminal case-Mrs. Thalia Fortescue Massie, the big-blue-eyed, 20-year-old wife of the naval lieutenant. She it was who last September had been roughly seized and ruthlessly raped by a band of five brown-skinned bucks near the Ala Moana Road. At their trial Mrs. Massie had identified Joseph Kahahawai Jr. as the one who broke her jaw with his fist before assaulting her. A "hung jury" in that case fired a chain of racial excitement and turmoil not ending with the start of the murder trial last week. For the past...
...collaborated with Director Robert J. Flaherty (Nanook of the North, Moana) on the story of Tabu. He built himself a house on Bora Bora, 300 miles from Tahiti in the Society Islands, and spent three months selecting natives for his cast. Six months ago he returned to Hollywood. Last fortnight he was killed when his car ran off the road some miles north of Santa Barbara, rolled down a 30-ft. embankment and landed on him at the bottom...
There is nothing in the White Shadows of the South Seas as convincing as the tattooing of a native in that honest old film, Moana of the South Sea Islands...
Only two characters in this second novel of Miss Warner's assume any importance--Mr. Fortune and his maggot--Lueli. Lueli is a youth who is the literary counterpart of the cinematic "Moana". He is lithe, graceful, ingratiating, childlike--and quite pagan. Worse than any vampire bat, he destroys Mr. Fortune's placidity; he creates have in a heart which had thought itself immune from any emotion except a fervent hatred for the world, the flesh and the devil. His innocence precludes any anger and his simplicity demands friendship. As Mr. Fortune's man Friday he wanders through the book...