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Shall We Dance? (RKO). Since any picture concerning Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers is largely an excuse for them to dance together, one gauge of such a picture's merit is the speed with which this excuse is forthcoming. The plot of Shall We Dance? is so involved that the picture is almost half over before they dance together. Once it starts, Astaire & Rogers are well up to their par and most cinemaddicts will doubtless consider it well worth waiting...
Three generations later Annabelle appears as the descendant of the gypsy princess and proceeds to enliven the plot with her own liaisons with the Irish family. Henry Fonda, owner and trainer of Destiny Bay, candidate for the Derby, co-stars with Annabelle who also possesses a promising horse. Wings of the Morning. From this point the story itself is partially lost amid these attractions of Annabelle's personality and the beauties of the Irish countryside which are set off to great advantage in technicolor...
...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 be missed...
...tightly knit plot and a due sense of seriousness in your drama "The Dog" is not for you. If, on the other hand, you are attracted by a madcap romp around contemporary Europe, including Austrian (?) revolutions ("We have them every fortnight now"), a German lunatic asylum ("Everything for the leader"), and a London cabaret ("British love is the best"), by all means go to the Copley. Don't lot the fact that "The Dog" is supposed to be propaganda for rugged communism frighten you away either. The propaganda is there all right, if you want to look...
Thoreau-like Captain Doughty. Quietly, competently written, the result is a sea story consisting of gently anarchistic philosophizing, exact descriptions, a travelog plot, the flavor but not the vitality of Tomlinson's best books, Gallions Reach and The Sea and the Jungle...