 It was at this time (1928–29) that Davies was invited to stay with D. H. Lawrence and Frieda Lawrence in France.Their meeting has been dramatised in "Sex and Power at the Beau Rivage" (2003), a play by contemporary Welsh author Richard Lewis Davies.Rhys Davies smuggled a manuscript copy of Lawrence's "Pansies" into Britain and arranged for it to be published by Charles Lahr.