Monday, Jun. 02, 1930

Negro "Othello"

Negro "Othello"

Paul Robeson, honored Negro actor in London last week gave his first performances of Othello. Audiences approved his making the character an Ethiopian and the play a Negro tragedy. Peggy Ashcroft, his white "Desdemona," he fondled and kissed. But if and where he takes the play to the U. S. he will cut that "business." Anticipated he: "The audience might get rough, in fact might become very, dangerous."

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