Word: eslanda
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sued for Divorce. Paul Robeson, 34, Negro baritone, actor and athlete; by Eslanda Goode Robeson; in Manhattan. Reason: "ennui." Grounds: infidelity. Actor Robeson admitted he hoped to marry an English society woman, denied it was Negrophile Lady Nancy Cunard...
PAUL ROBESON, NEGRO-Eslanda Goode Robeson-Harper ($2.50). Many a U. S. citizen, white and colored, has heard Paul Bustill Robeson, in the flesh or on a phonograph record, sing "Ol' Man River," "Water Boy" and many another movingly mournful song of his race. Those who have seen him know he is young (32), tall, powerful, coal-black, has a modest, engaging stage presence. Singer Robeson is married. His wife, much smaller, much less dark than he, sings for an audience too, but only sings her husband's praises. Paul Robeson, Negro is partly biography, partly propaganda...
...Robeson says her husband has a fault: he is lazy. Beyond that she will not go. To a friend in London who suggested someone ought to write Paul's life, Biographer Eslanda admitted she was trying to, had made several attempts already. But, put in Paul: "She thinks I'm a little tin angel with no faults at all, and so of course the book is stupid, uninteresting and untrue...
Biographer Eslanda thinks white people "astonishingly ignorant about Negroes." Says she: "The Negro problem is not so much of a problem as America would have the world believe. The Negro is a problem because he is described as a citizen of the U. S. by the Federal Constitution, and yet in some individual states he is placed in the impossible position of being a full citizen, but enjoying none of the rights of citizenship." Biographer Eslanda is a Harlem girl...