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MASON, LILIAN JANE (1874 - 1953), actress radio productions. She was also involved as a council member of The Stage Guild. Another attempt at a Welsh National Theatre was made in the summer of 1933 when another play by J. O. Francis, Howell of Gwent, was staged in south Wales. Lilian played the part of Arianrhod. She continued to act until in her 60s; in the 1939 Register she is described as a 'retired actress'. Tragedy had struck when, in
OWEN, GERALLT LLOYD (1944 - 2014), teacher, publisher, poet . He was acutely aware too of the importance of creating work in rural areas and of keeping property in the hands of Welsh people, and so with others of similar mind he formed a financial company Arianrhod to invest in property in Gwynedd. He inherited a house in Sarnau and ensured that when the time came to sell, it went to a local Welsh family. It was his literary skills with cynghanedd and his

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