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...play is subject to serious criticism on the grounds of unoriginality in both idea and treatment. The story of a philanthropic spinster attempting to educate Welsh miners and her discovery of a man of great talent among them hardly makes a sufficiently interesting plot even though the author, Emlyn Williams, has added many complications along the road to education. The wiles of a bottle of rum and a serving wench are almost enough to put an end to the spinster's hopes but she finally is successful in getting the brilliant miner a scholarship to Oxford. The situation, obviously...
...power and persuasiveness. There is very little of the social consciousness that made the movies so fine. The local squire who has done everything to stop the school so that the old ways may continue, is treated only with a humor that makes him wholly likeable and amusing. Yet Emlyn Williams--perhaps better known as an actor on the British stage and screen--has built up two well-developed characters and created a powerful, if subjective, conflict between them. Around this he has built a play which though weak in itself provides an excellent vehicle for Ethel Barrymore...
...Stars Look Down (Michael Redgrave, Emlyn Williams; TIME, July...
...Stars Look Down (Michael Redgrave, Margaret Lockwood, Emlyn Williams; TIME, July...
...seventh ballot Watch on the Rhine triumphed with twelve votes, Saroyan got six, Critic Burns Mantle (New York Daily News') held out with one ballot for Paul Green & Richard Wright's Negro tragedy, Native Son. The Circle had no trouble producing 16 votes (three not voting) for Emlyn Williams' The Corn Is Green as the season's best foreign play...