Word: othello
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Boston a bad cold made his voice "tight and hard and unrecognizable." After that he took lessons. He has been abroad three times: to play in The Voodoo, in The Emperor Jones, to sing "Ol' Man River" in Show Boat. Now he is in London playing in Othello. The Robesons like London, have decided to live there permanently, have taken a house on Hampstead Heath. Fortnight ago U. S. radio-listeners heard Actor Robeson broadcast from London a talk on "How It Feels for an American Negro to Play Othello to an English Audience." Said he: Shakespeare meant Othello...
...Last week in London, Actor Robeson was acclaimed in Othello...
...Negro "Othello...
Paul Robeson, honored Negro actor in London last week gave his first performances of Othello. Audiences approved his making the character an Ethiopian and the play a Negro tragedy. Peggy Ashcroft, his white "Desdemona," he fondled and kissed. But if and where he takes the play to the U. S. he will cut that "business." Anticipated he: "The audience might get rough, in fact might become very, dangerous...
Locusts are good to eat. St. Matthew says of John the Baptist: "His meat was locusts and wild honey." Shakespeare in Othello refers ecstatically to food "as luscious as locusts." Last week in the French and Spanish colonies in Africa, where the locust swarms were a nuisance but not a plague, hungry natives ate their fill, played games with the hoppers, bet on their hops. Tourists from the U. S. on Mediterranean cruises took a different view, grew vexed and grumpy as the hoppers hopped into their berths, baths, soups. In Greece and Rumania the sudden arrival of the locusts...