Word: othello
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...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...
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...
...Author. Thin as a rail, Frank Thiess, when high-schooling, tried to look like Abraham Lincoln, his hero. Result: teachers dubbed him idiot. Becoming a famed author, "I loved as passionately as Romeo, hated as intensely as Othello . . . publishers ran after me like hungry chickens. . . . My countrymen disliked my attitude [when] I boxed in public, had photographs with few clothes on in different magazines. ... All my traits were labelled 'American...
...various sports against Cambridge. In other University and College activities, the Rhodes Scholars have taken and are taking a prominent part. For example, the O. U. D. S. have broken a precedent by making an American Rhodes Scholar, an undergraduate resident in college, producer of the Winter Play, "Othello". The names of Rhodes Scholars may be seen in the roster of many clubs and societies in which they are active and prominent. The success of the group as a whole augurs well for the future. Time out to be allowed by their critics. The historians of the next century...
...following program will be given at the Pops concert in Symphony Hall at 8.15 o'clock: "Tannhauser." Entrance of the Guests into the Wartburg Wagner Ballet Music from "Othello" Verdi Largo Handel Overture to "Gwendoline" Chabrier Symphony in B minor, "Unfinished" Schubert 1. Allegro mederato 2. Andante con moto Rossiniana, Suite from "Les Riens" of Rossini Respight a. Caprl and Taormina: Barcarole and Siciliana b. Lament c. Intermezzo d. Tarantelle (with a Passing Procession) Overture to "The Bartered Bride" Smetana Valse Triste Sibelius Gypsy Dance from "Carmen" Bizel Hungarian March. "Rakoczy" Berlioz