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...history of the Brattle is a rich one. Built by the Cambridge Social Union in 1890, the Brattle housed theatricals, plays and performances throughout the first half of the twentieth century. During the 1930s and 40s, the building was rented by professional theater companies where actors such as Paul Robeson, Uta Hagen, Jessica Tandy and Luise Rainer graced its stage. In 1953, Bryant Haliday and Cyrus Harvey Jr. took over the Brattle and converted it into one of the first repertory cinemas...
...Community theater often showcased Harvard students, including the young T.S. Eliot '14 who appeared as Lord Bantock in The New Lady Bantock; or, Fanny and the Servant Problem. Paul Robeson, appeared at the Brattle in his premiere performance of Othello...
...Liebert, Black History Month is beneficial when we remember such figures as Martin Luther King, Jr. and Jackie Robinson, who are agreeable to Liebert, but he becomes dubious when people glorify the Black Panthers and the "disreputable" Paul Robeson (these are characterizations which we would call very debatable and some of them are simply outrageous...
...Liebert, Black History Month is beneficial when we remember such figures as Martin Luther King, Jr. and Jackie Robinson, who are agreeable to Liebert, but he becomes dubious when people glorify the Black Panthers and the "disreputable" Paul Robeson (these are characterizations which we would call very debatable and some of them are simply outrageous...
...then there's the tendency to glorify the inglorious. Too often, through the lens of Black History Month, the Black Panthers begin to resemble the Twelve Apostles, and disreputable figures like Paul Robeson, a prominent actor and Stalinist during the Cold War, are mistaken for American heroes...