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Almost 30 years after he last boomed through the title role of Othello in England, Actor Paul Robeson, 61, was the tormented Moor again at the Shakespeare Memorial Theater, opening the 100th season of the mecca in Stratford-on-Avon. Free to roam since his eight-year U.S. passport ban was lifted last June, Fellow Traveler Robeson got an ovation from the audience, almost unanimous huzzahs from the critics, but his Desdemona, blonde British Actress Mary Ure, was rapped for her lack of pathos...
Moments later, some 30 Russian seamen scrambled up from the beach. Fanning out over the moor, calling Teayn's name, they beat their way through the furze and heather. While they continued their man hunt up to and past Fraser's house, the crofter coolly phoned the police, set a warm meal before the exhausted man. The Russians did not abandon their search until 2 in the morning, and as they pushed off from shore emptyhanded, the blue, green and white curtain of the aurora borealis shimmered above them...
...billboard in front of Manhattan's Carnegie Hall is a picture of a blue-eyed, shock-haired Texan, partly obscured by a green-lettered streamer: SOLD OUT. Long before the concert was scheduled, Berlin-based Musicologist Paul Moor, a onetime professional pianist himself, went to Moscow to cover the Tchaikovsky International Competition for TIME, soon began to file glowing reports about 23-year-old Van Cliburn's performances, and his triumph as a winner of the first piano prize. At the request of Cliburn's parents, Moor became a kind of ex-officio manager...
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William D. Roberts has provided the play with highly effective colonnade settings which, with alternations, serve as a study, an English park, a Spanish moor, and a hacienda. The grass in front of the stage, moreover, makes a perfect roadway for the introduction of Tanner's early-model automobile...