Word: emlyn
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With the French Revolution and the battle of Waterloo rumbling in the background, "He Was Born Gay" is a fantasy woven about the legend of the Last Dauphin. Written by Emlyn Williams, staged by the Harvard Dramatic Club under the leadership of Jock Munroe, the play shows thought and skill on the part of the writer, director, and cast. Rough edges were smothed, the surface polished, and the performance was well-rounded and unified...
...what will be the American premiere of Emlyn Williams' romantic comedy, "He Was Born Gay", the Harvard Dramatic Club is rounding into shape its fifty-eighth production. The amusing drama of Napolconic England will be presented at the Peabody Playhouse in Boston...
...daring cinematic experiment. Any picture in which Robert Montgomery, whose previous contribution to the screen has been a seven-year marathon of ingenuous charm, gives a first-rate performance in a difficult role, rates as at least a major surprise. Night Must Fall, adapted from the play which Emlyn Williams wrote and acted for a year in London and two months in Manhattan (TIME, Oct. 12), scores on both counts, easily the most interesting item in the year's cinema file on criminology...
Night Must Fall (by Emlyn Williams; Sam H. Harris, producer) is a taut, slick study in psychopathic homicide, imported from London after a 55-week run there. In a prologue, a judge denies the appeal of a man convicted of two atrocious murders, whose reenactment then follows. Act I discloses the lonely Essex household of Mrs. Bramson (May Whitty), a querulous, malingering old lady who keeps in genteel British bondage her penniless and emotionally suffocated niece Olivia (Angela Baddeley). When the maid complains of pregnancy and her seducer is called on the carpet, he turns out to be Dan (Author...
...Welsh ironworker, Emlyn Williams, 30, retains a trace of Welsh accent. He spoke no English until he was 8 or 9, went to Oxford at 17 on a scholarship, saw a Somerset Maugham play which dissipated his notions of becoming a schoolteacher. Emlyn Williams has written five successful plays. He has grey-streaked hair, likes unpressed clothes, long, cold drinks and convivial company, haunts courtrooms, reads accounts of murder trials voraciously, claims that the character of Dan in Night Must Fall (first of his plays produced in the U. S.) is a psychological synthesis of five notorious British malefactors...