Word: welshed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Corn Is Green (TIME, Dec. 9, 1940). The warm story of the education of a talented Welsh miner, with Ethel Barrymore playing teacher...
...Belmont; Perry E. Haines, West Medway; Wesley N. Haines, Boston; Glenn P. Holman, Neponset; Leonard W. Holmberg, Woonscocket, R. I.; Robert LaV. Jacobs, Belmont; Paul G. Kuntz, Philadelphia, Pa.; Albert A. Martin, Middleton; John A. Martin, Rochester; Kermit Schoonover, Clintondale, N. Y.; Oscar J. F. Seitz, Medfield; Clement W. Welsh, South Groveland; and Robert T. Weston, Lexington...
...Valley (20th Century-Fox) is Hollywood's answer to Wordsworth's definition of poetry: emotion recollected in tranquillity. Its story (from Richard Llewellyn's novel) is an aging man's remembrance of his boyhood among a lyric, godly race of coal miners in a green Welsh valley. Because his recollections ring true, they are certain to evoke a similar nostalgia in all but the most slab-sided of moviegoers...
...camera moves over the brick, mortar and stone of the hilly Welsh village, wanders-up & down the pleasant countryside, down into a grim mine, pauses a moment on the black slag (waste of the coal pits) which will some day engulf the valley and drive the people...
Song is as immediate among the Welsh "as sight is in the eye," and How Green is eloquent with melody. Music is beautifully supplied on & off the screen by 80 members of a Welsh choir discovered in Los Angeles. When these singers were moved into the picture's expensive Welsh village in the California hills, some of the elders thought it was supposed to be an exact replica of their home towns in Wales. They made no bones about complaining of inaccuracies in the buildings, of names on tombstones of people who had never lived in their town. According...