found: Wikipedia, October 19, 2015(Ronald Gow; English dramatist, best known for Love on the Dole (1934); born November 1, 1897 in Heaton Moor, Stockport, Cheshire; died April 27, 1993 in Beaconsfield, England; after training as a chemist, he returned to his old school as a teacher; in the late 1920s he made several educational silent films with his pupils: The People of the Axe (1926) and The People of the Lake (1928) recreated life in ancient Britain; The Man Who Changed His Mind (1928) was a Boy Scout adventure with a cameo from Robert Baden-Powell; The Glittering Sword (1929) was a medieval parable about disarmament; writing occupied his spare time during his years as a schoolmaster, and he wrote several plays for the BBC; at the age of 35 he had his first professional production, in London, with Gallow's Glorious (1933), a play about the American slavery abolitionist John Brown; in 1934 he wrote Love on the Dole, based on Walter Greenwood's novel about unemployment in Salford during the Great Depression; in 1937 Gow married actress Wendy Hiller; they later moved to Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire, where they raised two children; he continued writing plays into his eighties, providing material for his wife in adaptations of Tess of the D'Urbervilles (1946),and Ann Veronica (1949); Gow was co-credited for the book used in the musical version of Ann Veronica which premiered in 1969; his other adaptations include Vita Sackville-West's The Edwardians and A Boston Story (1966), based on Henry James' Watch and Ward)
