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...Paul Robeson is a great baritone, a good actor (Othello). He is also a Communist-liner. "There is no such thing as a nonpolitical artist," he explained at a rally of Communist war veterans in Washington. "Either the artist serves the people or he serves those who would throttle them...
Albany's Mayor Erastus Corning, II, in effect, agreed. On that basis Corning had ruled that Robeson could not sing in Philip Livingston Junior High School. A public school, said the mayor, should not be open to an artist identified with Communism. But the New York State Supreme Court reversed Corning and, in effect, Robeson, by ruling that singing is an artistic performance "and nothing else." Robeson could appear in the high school...
Last week he sang. Some 1,100 people turned out to hear him. The songs were nonpolitical. So was the applause. At the end, Robeson made a nonpolitical speech: "I shall remember this with great warmth and affection...
...Albany, Baritone Paul Robeson (who likes the way the U.S.S.R. does things) had a singing date yanked out from under him by the Board of Education, which suddenly changed its mind about letting him sing in a local high school. Communist-liner Robeson's sponsors went to court, hoped to force the board to cancel its cancellation...
...Zealand) that New Zealand's Labor government decided to do something for him. This week he will board ship for three years at London's Trinity College of Music, a $10,000 musical education at Government expense. New Zealanders, who suspect they have found a native Paul Robeson, do not intend to let his sweetness be wasted on the native bush...