Word: othello
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Paul Robeson, great Negro actor-singer (Othello, etc.), who once sent his son to school in Russia...
...Edward Chodorov's Decision. War plays, to make any dent at all, had to abandon straight drama, become exultant paeans to martial youth like Winged Victory, comedies of adventure like Jacobowsky and the Colonel. But the season's only two revivals of the classics came through handsomely: Othello set an alltime Broadway record for Shakespeare, The Cherry Orchard had its longest Broadway...
Producing honors easily went to the Theater Guild, whose two smashes, Othello and Jacobowsky, flank last season's smash-of-the-age Oklahoma! Highest acting honors were almost solidly male. In a dead heat for first place were Elliott Nugent for his superbly natural sergeant in The Voice of the Turtle, Oscar Karlweis for his delightfully rueful refugee in Jacobowsky. Best brace of actors were Paul Robeson and Jose Ferrer as an eloquent Moor and supple lago in Othello. The most engaging performance by an actress turned up in musicomedy-Mary Martin's in One Touch of Venus...
Former members have gone into widely different fields. Richard Aldrich '25 has become a producer; Kenneth Macgowan '11 has tried his hand at script writing for 20th Century Fox; Robert E. Jones '10 has become a well-known designer and designed and lighted the sets for Paul Robeson's "Othello...
This week with the 1,001st performance of Angel Street, Broadway for the first time in history had three shows running at once that had passed the 1,000 mark (others: Life With Father, Arsenic and Old Lace). Also this week, Manhattan's Theater Guild-with its Oklahoma!, Othello, Jacobowsky and the Colonel all smash hits-gaily celebrated its 25th birthday...