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Paul Robeson, honored Negro actor in London last week gave his first performances of Othello. Audiences approved his making the character an Ethiopian and the play a Negro tragedy. Peggy Ashcroft, his white "Desdemona," he fondled and kissed. But if and where he takes the play to the U. S. he will cut that "business." Anticipated he: "The audience might get rough, in fact might become very, dangerous...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: Negro Othello | 6/2/1930 | See Source »

...summary: Harvard Boston University Austin, Hill, l.w. r.w., Blais, Ashcroft Gardner, Burgess, c. c., Ashcroft, Provost Hodder, Howe, r.w. l.w., McCrae, Ling, Wenneberg Chase, Pratt, l.d. r.d., Provost, Brown Crosby, Hammond, r.d. l.d., Burke, Kontoff Newell, Cumings, g. g., Kelly...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SMALL CROWD SEES B. U. LOSE 5 TO 0 | 1/31/1924 | See Source »

...Boston combination was inclined to use dilatory tactics and continually tried to throw the Harvard team off its balance by deliberate passing in its own territory. For the scoring end of the rink the Terriers had to trust to Ashcroft and Provost, but these were never able to break through the Crimson defence...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SMALL CROWD SEES B. U. LOSE 5 TO 0 | 1/31/1924 | See Source »

...Company L: J. D. Ashcroft, A. Anderson, M. S. Bursteen, R. E. Choate, S. W. Coe, J. Holland, G. W. Howe, J. Israelite, H. Lazo, G. S. Levinson, T. A. Lightner, G. F. Ludington, S. E. Maloney, L. McElwain, D. McCord, A. R. Morse, W. A. Ridgeway, J. J. Robinson, B. W. Sayre, M. Spalding, L. G. Steuer, J. L. Welch...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Reserve Officers' Training Corps | 10/8/1917 | See Source »

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