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...outside geography. There, while his playwriting became a tangled, stunted vine, his poetry blazed like a burning bush. There Prospero, the banished Duke of Milan, tended his daughter Miranda, shipwrecked his enemies by waving his magic wand, ruled over the spirit Ariel, all speed and light, and the monster Caliban, that "freckled whelp hag-born." There also the shipwrecked men tediously conspired and caroused. When, at the last - his enemies forgiven, Ariel and Caliban set free - Prospero forswears magic, he seems indeed (as many men have thought) to symbolize Shakespeare himself, breaking his own poetic wand...
...casting Canada Lee in the debasing role of Caliban. Miss Webster has invited the criticism of all who profess an interest in the race question. The choice of a Negro for the role of the misshapen monster, half-human and servile, suggests sinister implications. Lee, however, said during a backstage interview that he has attempted to play down all social connotations in his part, and that he feels genuinely honored to follow in the footsteps of Sir Herbert Tree and other English actors who have played Caliban...
...Peggy and I had long conversations on this," he remarked. "This Caliban's a rebellious guy, and that's the idea people must get. I thought I could get away from the Negro angle of it. I hoped I could open up things for the Negro never opened up before...
Canada Lee's fiery Caliban is brilliant. When Lee cries, "Ban, Ban, Ca-Caliban, got a new master, got a new man," Act II reaches a moment of dynamic crescendo...
With Cook as coach and a promise of petty officer ratings for players, Great Lakes at once attracted the cream of draft-age college basketball stars. It got University of Detroit's Bob Caliban, picked for an All-America basketball team two years ago; Indiana's Ernie Andres, who set a Big Ten record in 1938 when he scored 31 points in one game; Ohio U's Frank Baumholtz, voted the most valuable player in Manhattan's Madison Square Garden Invitation Tournament last year; Stanford's Forrest Anderson, All-Pacific Coast forward; Missouri...