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...Iago. In Europe's capital Actor Aldridge also played other Shalespearean roles (e.g., Lear, Shylock, Macbeth.) He married a Swedish baroness (by whom he had three children), died as he was about to return to America to set the record that had to wait 76 years for Paul Robeson...
...ardent antifascist, Robeson later went to Spain, sang for the Loyalists on the battlefield, his great voice carrying into the Insurgents' camp. Late in 1939 he decided to come home...
...tough decision to make. To stay in London was a terrible temptation-life was easier there, success greater. To live in Russia had been an even stronger temptation: "I felt I might have functioned there better than any place else in the world." But, a proud man Robeson is almost proudest of being a Negro; a responsible man, he feels most responsible toward his race. "I couldn't live with my own conscience, feeling I was getting the gravy." He stands with his people, but against segregation and abnegation alike. But he came back, too, because he found, like...
Merely for a Negro to be able to play Othello on Broadway, Robeson feels, has justified his decision. In terms of morale, its almost as if they abolished Jim Crow in the Army." For him, it is "killing two birds with one stone-I'm acting and I'm talking for Negroes in the way only Shakespeare can." He will play it as long as possible, all over the country (except in the South) even though his $1,500-a-week salary is a fraction of what he can earn singing...
Lazybones. Two years ago the Robesons moved into a big colonial house with a swimming pool and tennis court at Enfield, Conn. (Cracked their repairman: "He'll have to sing a lot of songs to heat this place.") Once dubbed a lazy man by his wife, Robeson embodies a queer definition of laziness. Besides acting, cinemacting (Song of Freedom, King Solomon's Mines, Show Boat), carrying Water Boy to the ends of the earth, broadcasting and making hundreds of gramophone recordings, Robeson has been working on a vast treatise about African culture, has tackled an invention for improving...