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...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...
Pithy and popular is Australian-born Lord Atkin, ardent Welshman by adoption, one of Parliament's five "law lords" (who act as a sort of supreme court, reviewing cases on points of national importance carried from the Court of Appeal). Lord Atkin is noted for his liberalism regarding divorce legislation. He once attacked a proposed bill to make divorce impossible until after five years of marriage, citing the case of a soldier whose wife had deceived him. Said Lord Atkin: "It seems to me a monstrous thing that that man should not have been entitled to be freed from...
...Welshman John Cowper Powys is concerned, it has that too. It is about Wales during the years 1400-1416. The title character is that subtle, flawed part-genius who led a Welsh-French army toward the London of Henry IV, and died a hermit. Its hero, a venturesome Oxford student named Rhisiart, is a young man with a "narrow skull . . . predatory beak and snatching lips." He becomes Owen's secretary, engulfs himself in an almost pathic loyalty-love for his boss, and has become an English Justice by the time Glendower dies...
Some 60 other characters, invented and actual, supply the color. The wild Stone-Age magic that survives in Welsh blood has been responsible for much of the greatest in English poetry. But Author Powys, a professional Wild Welshman (and proud of it), has never got his wildness quite under artistic control. In his thefts from Homer, Keats, Joyce Kilmer, the marriage service and Shakespeare, Burglar Powys invariably knocks over the china closet or steps on the cat. The following not untypical sentence should be engraved on the tomb of Krafft-Ebing: "He was witnessing . . . what few men have been privileged...
...nationwide strike of 1,500,000 construction laborers. The issue was a threepence-an-hour wage increase. If the strike motion carried, it might mean the end of the peaceful building of the common man's Britain. After four hours of argument a 48-year-old grey-haired Welshman named Owen Jenkins stood up. Owen Jenkins said he had two sons in the service. "Could I face my boys if they came back, looked me in the eyes and said to me: 'You voted for a strike while we were defending our country...