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...white girl, then discovered that he was so far above her in mental calibre that it hurt. His aspirations to ward a lawyer's career came between them, and in the end he renounced them to devote himself to caring for her ? whereupon she kissed his hands-Robeson, a Negro of exceptional scholastic and athletic prowess while at Rutgers, played the black man; Mary Blair, the white girl...
...dramatic miscegenation will shortly be enacted in the Provincetown Playhouse, Manhattan, by a brilliant Negro named Paul Robeson and a brilliant white named Mary Blair. The producers are the Provincetown Players, headed by Eugene O'Neill, dramatist; Robert Edmund Jones, artist, and Kenneth Macgowan, author. Many white people do not like the idea. Neither do many black...
Paul Leroy Robeson, of the 1918 Rutgers football eleven, was on Walter Camp's all-American eleven. Incidentally, he was Phi Beta Kappa, with one of the highest scholastic records ever made at his Alma Mater. He is also a graduate of Columbia Law School, but theatrical interests have so far kept him from the practice of Law. As an amateur, he has played the title role in Simon the Cyrenian, by Ridgely Torrence, and the leading male role in Taboo, opposite Margaret Wycherly in Manhattan and Mrs. Patrick Campbell in England. For some weeks he was a professional...
...Robeson is generally spoken of as "a good fellow." Of the play he says: "It is not sensational. It is a beautiful and moving play...
...Senior Class in the Yard Dormitories, was appointed as follows: Hampton Robb, of Burlington, N. J., chairman; Parker Kingsley Ellis, of Cambridge; Alfred Gardner, of Garden City, L. I., N. Y.; Felix Whitman Knauth, of New York, N. Y., William Moore, of Gloucester; Ludwig King Moorehead, of Andover; Thomas Robeson Morse, of Falmouth; Charles Parker Reynolds, of Readville; George Richmond Walker, of Brookline; Aaron Davis Weld, of Boston...