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...Tell God all my Troubles" and "Joshua Fit de Battle ob Jericho." Robeson will remain in the U. S. for two months, will sing at Rutgers College. New Brunswick, N. J.; at Toronto. Pittsburgh. Detroit, Chicago, Madison, Wis., Columbus, Ohio. In January he returns to London to play the Moor in Shakespeare's Othello. If successful, he may return with it to the U. S. Certainly next year he will take a concert tour as far west at California...
...Another famed Negro to play the Moor was Ira Aldridge in the early half of the 19th Century. To endow an Aldridge memorial chair in the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre, Stratford-on-Avon, U. S. Negroes recentlv subscribed...
Paul Robeson, Negro actor (Emperor Jones, Black Boy, Showboat [in London]), last week signed with Maurice Browne, producer (Journey's End), to play the Moor in Othello. After performances in London next spring, Producer Browne plans to give Othello in the U. S. and Canada, has secured an option on Negro Robeson's appearance in the same role in cinema...
...being played in Manhattan by Lyn Harding (Macbeth) and Florence Reed (Lady Macbeth) in settings by famed Gordon Craig. These settings are the most notable circumstance of George C. Tyler's production; stairs in the castle, rocks along the moor, a road, a cave, a banquet hall-all of them are shadowed by the moods of the play...
...base of the little finger of his right hand. One English sports writer said that the match ought to be postponed. Hagen wanted it postponed himself. He explained that he had come all the way from Los Angeles in twelve days, and that except for that one day at Moor Park he hadn't had any practice except a few balls which he drove off the roof of his hotel into the Thames, and that he had been acting in the cinema all winter. Told that he would have to play anyway, he hired a detective...