Word: years
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...University, he was educated first in the public schools of Princeton, N. J. His school record won him a scholarship at nearby Rutgers College (New Brunswick, N. J.). At Rutgers an average of over 90% in all his studies won him a Phi Beta Kappa key in his junior year. He was considered Rutgers' best debater. He won his R in four sports (football, baseball, basketball, track). The late Walter Camp called him "the greatest defensive end that ever trod the gridiron...
Paul Robeson meant to be a lawyer. He took a two-year course at Columbia University, earned his degree. During that period, however, he performed in a Y. M. C. A. play which Playwright Eugene Gladstone O'Neill happened to attend. So enthusiastic was O'Neill that he went backstage and begged Robeson to act in Emperor Jones. His law course finished, Robeson consented, and made a name as a big actor in Emperor Jones, All God's Chillun, Black...
...months, will sing at Rutgers College. New Brunswick, N. J.; at Toronto. Pittsburgh. Detroit, Chicago, Madison, Wis., Columbus, Ohio. In January he returns to London to play the Moor in Shakespeare's Othello. If successful, he may return with it to the U. S. Certainly next year he will take a concert tour as far west at California...
...Even in Ernst Krenek's Jonny Spielt Auf, presented last year at the Metropolitan Opera House (TIME, Jan. 28) and before that in many a European capital, there was much discussion because Hero Jonny is supposed to be a black-face comedian. The Metropolitan authorities worried about letting Basso Michael Bohnen wear full, realistic black-face makeup, thought perhaps his neck should show white to reassure prejudiced observers. At the dress rehearsal the neck was white. It looked so absurd that at the performance it was blackened like the face...
...troubles are not new to Mr. Mitchell nor has he often been bested by them. In 1898, a Junior at Amherst, he was troubled by his father's business failure, but got himself an assistant instructorship in public speaking and worked his way through his Senior year. In Chicago, where he went to work (for $10 weekly) for Western Electric, he found that his address, chosen for cheapness, excited criticism; further discovered that he had innocently selected a room in one of the Loop's worst dives. Solution: He moved, paid more rent, still made his $10 serve...