Word: othellos
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...Robeson is still Robeson, and is tremendous as Othello. His voice, his carriage, his power are all massive in their import and raise the Moor to a height from which his subsequent fall is catastrophic...
Once again, Shakespeare's "Othello" has come to town; and now, after a year, during which the actors have been able to give more careful atention to the problems of the play, the performance shows a great deal more maturity than last summer's production at the Cambridge Playhouse, which was hailed as a brilliant piece...
...Paul Robeson is acting an extremely difficult role as Othello. At least, in spite of the duality of his character, Iago has a dynamic part in the play. He is the center of all the action; he is the force which is allowed to run freely through the characters in the play, tying them in inextricable knots as his "motiveless malignity" see fit. But Othello must stand as an object great enough for his fall to shock the audience. That is almost calling for the superhuman. And it's debatable whether Robeson is quite such a superman...
...Behrman (starring Lunt & Fontanne). But Comedy-Writers Kaufman & Hart, Clare Boothe, Rachel Crothers, Noel Coward have nothing announced; nor have Eugene O'Neill, John Steinbeck, Lillian Hellman, Clifford Odets. Katharine Cornell plans to revive Chekhov's The Three Sisters and Paul Robeson may go to Broadway with Othello (TIME, Aug. 24). Only serious plays definitely set for fall-both deal with the war-are Maxwell Anderson's The Eve of St. Mark, Emlyn Williams' The Morning Star...
...since he engineers every last detail of it, unloosing all hell with a dropped handkerchief. A great lago can usually steal the show. As a pretty good lago, Jose Ferrer (Key Largo, Charley's Aunt) could not, against Robeson, even hold his own. The result was unorthodox: an Othello that had emotional grandeur, but lacked psychological excitement...