A FILM OF ARAN

Evening Star, Issue 21624, 20 January 1934, Page 6

A FILM OF ARAN

ISLANDERS IK LONDON FOR FIRST TIME Eight fishermen and peasants from Aran, off the nest coast of Ireland, are in London for the first time (says a recent London ‘Times’). They arc the principal actors in the film Man of \ran f which Mr Robert' J. Flaherty made on the island, living yith its people for over eighteen months while doing so. The film is now being finished at the Gainsborough studios in Islington 'and these islanders have been brought to London by Mr Flaherty to complete the dialogue. The visitors spent part of the day at the Gaumont-British studios at Shepherd’s Bush. There they had their first sight of the making of a picture by professional actors under studio lights.- Before the filming of ‘ Man of Aran ’ began Mr Flaherty took the fisherfolk whom he had chosen to be his chief actors on a trip to the town of Galway, a 30-mile voyage, to see what a film and a cinema were like. They had not seen such things before, though they were acquainted with broadcasting, for there are wireless sets on Aran. The first months of Mr Flahertv’s stay on the island were expended in making friends and persuading the inhabitants, much against their will, to help him with his picture. Of the islanders now in Londonshy courteous people—several are 6ft or ’more in height and splendidly formed. The only woman among them is Maggie Dirane, the heroine of the picture. The youngest is Michaeleen (or Michael) Dillane, a boy of 14. The others are Colman (known as Tiger) King, who plays the hero;. Eat Mullen,;

perhaps the most travelled man adiong the islanders—he has lived in Chicago;) Patch Ruadh (which word means “red” in Irish); Patcheen Faherty, Tom O’Rorke, and Big Patcheen. These last three appear in the/ film as the crew of a curragh, the islanders’ primitive craft, iu a wild storm*