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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...
...thinking of C. I. Oligarch Lewis as a potential candidate; and few "influences" in U. S. political history have seemed so uninfluential. Of 40 Congressional candidates he blasted at in 1938, 39 were promptly elected; in Pennsylvania his support was politically fatal. Yet John Llewellyn Lewis, 60, shag mane, miner's pallor, pompous oratory and all, might be a forceful, effective, and sur prisingly conservative President...
Joker in it, to St. Louis newsmen, was that Ed Sullivan's column does not appear in the Star-Times, but in the Post-Dispatch. Another joker was that Columnist Sullivan got his names mixed: "Newspaper Veteran Larner" turned out to be news editor, William R. Miner...
Said Editor Miner with a straight face: "He [Sullivan] said he had only a few minutes-it was nice he could spend them in our office." Said the Post-Dispatch, preoccupied with weightier matters (see p. 56 : nothing...
...meeting prominent figures will discuss the many work camps which are open to College students who don't mind hard work, and want to learn something about social problems existing in this country. One camp, for example, will be located in East Millsboro, Pennsylvania, where a study of the miner's plight in the bituminous coal industry...