"Emlyn: An Early Autobiography"] takes up where its predecessor, "George," left off…. The book is an account of its author's gradual rise in the theatre and in the movies, both as an actor and as a writer…. Williams tells us everything he found out about acting, playwriting, directing, sets, auditoriums, and audiences, and if this were all, the book would still be invaluable. But there is another—and more important—lesson. For Williams also chronicles his emotional life—his loneliness, his torment, and his obsession with a young man, which almost destroyed what became a lasting love marriage. The youth turned out to be something new and horrible in Williams' experience—a complacently amoral criminal to whom friendship, loyalty, gratitude were incomprehensible. The reality of plausible, attractive, conscienceless crime, which had caused Williams so much pain, provided the vision for his first hit play, "Night Must Fall," on...