Word: rhys
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Best and least batty of the exhibits are Emily Blachman, who runs the boarding house, and her husband Jim. Emily (engagingly played by Mary Philips) is a bohemianized F.F.V., bighearted, bossy, shrewd, who keeps a roof over her family while the blustering, big-shot Jim (well played by Rhys Williams) tries for the sky. A familiar rudder-& -sails combination, the Blachmans ship a lot of water, ride put a lot of domestic storms...
Born. To Signal Corps Private Alan Ladd Jr., 29, peacetime cinema tough guy, and Actor's Agent Sue Carol (real name: Evelyn Lederer), 35: their first child, a daughter; in Hollywood. Weight: 8 Ib. 110z Killed in Action. British Army Captain Glyn David Rhys-Williams, 21, grandson of Novelist Elinor (It) Glyn; in North Africa...
...Green is almost a photographed novel, is very nearly a silent picture with occasional dialogue sequences. Director John Ford has chosen the book's method to tell his story: his reminiscing Welshman is an offscreen voice (Rhys Williams) introducing and commenting on the picture's episodes.* For the most part, the actors are silent as befits inarticulate people...
...breeding, breathing, aging and division that make up all family chronicles produce many a memorable sequence. The agony and embarrassment of Huw's first day at a national school is exaggerated to just the proportions that a boy would recall. The drubbing that Prizefighter Dai Bando (Rhys Williams) and his craven crony (Barry Fitzgerald) administer to Huw's priggish schoolteacher is a masterpiece of comic justice. The viciously pious bigotry that is determined to make something out of the innocent relationship of Angharad and her minister is stinging social satire...
Here and there rose a less gloomy voice -that of Bryn Mawr's Archeologist Rhys Carpenter, who said that the "golden age" of Greece was tarnished and that even the Parthenon had ragged edges; of University of Paris' Professor Charles Cestre, who sent a paper praising modern U. S. poetry; of Dr. Hu Shih, Chinese Ambassador to the U. S., who, observing that President Roosevelt could not even carry his own Dutchess County, declared that the U. S. was in no danger of dictatorship...