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...Corn Is Green (by Emlyn Williams, produced by Herman Shumlin) joins a good sound sentimental play with just the actress for the job: Ethel Barrymore. Although its young Welsh author is best known in the U. S. for his murder drama Night Must Fall, this is no story of a psychopathic killer. It is a warm, wise semi-autobiography. It ran for nearly 700 performances in London, many during the blackout...
Reigning London playwright, who has put even Noel Coward's eye out, is 34-year-old Welshman Emlyn Williams, known in the U. S. chiefly for his murder play, Night Must Fall. Son of a Welsh miner, Williams did not speak English till he was eight, did not see a professional show till he was 19. Playing in London are his autobiographical The Corn Is Green, packing them in after 600 performances, and The Light of Heart, story of a drunken, down-at-heel actor who gets his last chance to stage a comeback in a myth ical Charles...
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...