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...only notable of her race to whom the attention of millions of Negro tots was directed this week. All over the land black schoolmarms observed Negro History Week by discoursing proudly to their pupils about the life & work of such distinguished living Negroes as Singers Paul Robeson and Roland Hayes, Novelist Claude McKay, Poets Countee Cullen and Langston Hughes, and of such famed dead...
ALICE JAMES: HER BROTHERS, HER JOURNAL-ed. by Anna Robeson Burr- Duffield &Green ($2.50). Well-edited story of the invalid sister of the (Boston) James boys...
Howard v. Lincoln is the Big Game among Negro colleges. Last week they played at night on Atlantic City's Million Dollar Pier. Lincoln's Left Tackle Robeson, kin of famed Singer Paul Robeson, scored a touchdown after a blocked kick. But Howard's Quarterback "Showboat" Wares would not be stopped. He made one touchdown, made possible another...
...tragedy, since O'Neill's play as it stood opened too directly in medias res, and since the emendations take advantage of the wider possibilities of the camera, the changes are an improvement on the legitimate play. Photography and direction, and excellent suporting cast and good music aid Paul Robeson's magnificent interpretation of the disintegration of His Imperial Highness, Jones...
...London reporters, Negro Singer Paul Robeson declared that he would never again sing in Italian. French or German, was looking instead for a "great Russian opera or play, or some great Hebrew or Chinese work which I feel I shall be able to render with the necessary degree of understanding." Said he: "I do not under stand the psychology or philosophy of the Frenchman, German or Italian. Their history has nothing in common with the history of my slave-ancestors. So I will not sing their music, nor the songs of their ancestors. . . . The trouble with the American Negro...