Word: paul
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Arriving in London to play Othello at Stratford on Avon, booming Negro Baritone Paul Robeson bared for waiting cameras a scrubbier jowl than usual. Reason: he was nurturing his own beard, since "last time I played Othello I used a false beard, but it kept slipping with perspiration." Fellow-traveling Traveler Robeson seemed fit after a spell with the flu in a Moscow hospital, for which he had predictable praise...
...papers, but newspapers across the nation were carrying deadpan accounts that bore no hint of its whimsical beginnings. Wincing at the story's effect on alumni fund drives and student recruitment programs, Brown officials, with hopes of clearing the air, approved a debate between Thompson and Athletic Director Paul F. Mackesey...
...essence, Bird copies Cat. This time, the heroine is not a childless young wife, but a fading movie queen, Ariadne de Lago (Geraldine Page). The ineffectual young man, Chance Wayne (Paul Newman), is a sexual athlete, but an impotent failure as the actor he wants to be. The has-been and the would-be smoke hashish ("Moroccan, and the finest") and saunter to the footlights to tell their sordid life stories in monologue...
Considering the vehicle, perhaps James Paul's direction has to be exaggerated as it is. But, to my mind, there was too much competition for attention on stage too frequently. If Paul was aiming for an effect of motion, he certainly got it, but he may have prescribed an overdose...