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While members of Chicago's Union League Club strove last week to find a successor to Calvin Coolidge (see below), members of New York's Union League Club hustled the nude figure of Paul Robeson to the club librarian's office...
These changes and the addition of nine new instructors were made known at Warren House. The instructors filling last year's vacancies are Robeson Bailey '29, Francis Bowman of New York University, S. H. Butterfield '29. Dean W. H. Cary '21, H. F. Folland '29, Dudley Poore '17, Leonard Stevens '30 and Dr. K. C. R. White...
...never able to find Virginia Dare and the other settlers. Twenty years later colonists at Jamestown heard stories that all but a few had been massacred by Powhatan, that the rest had been absorbed into an Indian tribe. To this day half-breed inhabitants (called Scuffletonians or Croatans) in Robeson County, N. C. claim, without historical evidence, to be descendants of Virginia Dare and the other "lost colonists" of Roanoke...
...Actor Robeson played in another O'Neill play. The Emperor Jones; then tried the concert platform. Again he was a great success. He had had no voice training, thought he needed none; but at a concert in Boston a bad cold made his voice "tight and hard and unrecognizable." After that he took lessons. He has been abroad three times: to play in The Voodoo, in The Emperor Jones, to sing "Ol' Man River" in Show Boat. Now he is in London playing in Othello. The Robesons like London, have decided to live there permanently, have taken...
...Robeson says her husband has a fault: he is lazy. Beyond that she will not go. To a friend in London who suggested someone ought to write Paul's life, Biographer Eslanda admitted she was trying to, had made several attempts already. But, put in Paul: "She thinks I'm a little tin angel with no faults at all, and so of course the book is stupid, uninteresting and untrue...