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...speakers often pay tribute to the "great American working class." No one is allowed to forget that May I was chosen as International Labor Day to commemorate a strike in Chicago. Similarly, every Chinese school child knows and honors the birthdays of two Americans, Paul Robeson and W.E.B DuBois...
...world"--but the chief interest here is the portrayal of the title role by James Earl Jones. Life magazine's critic and others rate it above Olivier's. Alas! I am in no position to judge; but, in my own experience, I'd rank Jones above Paul Robeson, Orson Welles, William Marshall, Brock Peters--above all, in fact, except Earle Hyman...
Being largely a monologue, the play naturally depends heavily on its Emperor, the part first made famous by Charles Gilpin and later by Paul Robeson. The work has been a rarity hereabouts. I recall seeing only Rex Ingram's performance at the Brattle Theatre shortly after the War, and Harold Scott's at Agassiz Theatre in the mid-fifties--both admirable...
...membership is now estimated at some 50,000 throughout the South-including, for the first time, "Klansladies" -and seems to be growing rapidly. This represents a substantial rebuilding job since the low point in 1958, when an angry group of armed Lumbee Indians whooped into a Klan rally in Robeson County, N.C., sent some 75 Klansmen fleeing in panic. Chief rebuilder has been Shelton, a tire salesman who emerged from a bitter 1961 split in leadership of the old Klan to head the new United Klans of America...
...sickly old man was coming home after five years of self-imposed exile over his Communist sympathies. Paul Robeson, 74, has not sung publicly in almost two years, has been living in a London nursing home, except for the last four months, when he was taken to East Berlin for what his far-leftist wife, Eslanda, described as "a medical examination." Now "he is to all intents and purposes retired," says Eslanda, who does practically all the talking. "He does not wish to see anyone or give any interviews. Nor does he wish to be photographed, because he has lost...