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Othello (by William Shakespeare; produced by The Theater Guild) gave Broadway its first powerful drama in months, its first Negro Othello in history. Playing the noble, credulous Moor was Paul Robeson, who played him 13 years ago in London, a year ago in Cambridge (Mass.) and Princeton (TIME...
...year's thought has fashioned both a better production and a better-balanced one; in terms of tense and vivid melodrama, indeed, this Othello is as good as Broadway can hope to see. If Robeson last week was a less moving figure than he was at Cambridge, he had tempered the violence that marred his scenes of crazed jealousy, he had better caught the hang of his lordly speeches, the meaning of his crucial scenes. Magnificent in stature, magnificent if a little too solemn in manner, magnificent if a little monotonous of voice, Robeson did not bring...
Double Talk. The larger questions are often hard to handle. Lacking any clear-cut answer to the Negro problem, for instance, OWI has put Paul Robeson and other "experts" on the air to talk around and about it. Inconclusive as this is, OWI has at least tried to make a fair presentation of the issues...
...that we're going to divulge any trade secrets, but it's already out that Paul Robeson is the guest of honor at the Advocate punch And the honorable masters of Bow Street swore they wouldn't be outdone, and, as it's an old Lampoon tradition, we hear that the Poonsters have done it again...
...again, on Saturday night, the Poonsters have secretly let us in on the dope. They, too, have a guest. They, too, are not to be outdone. For their guest of honor is, unlike Robeson, well known. He's the famous music critic: Chauncy Rushton Skaekle...