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...response to an invitation, Antonio Salemme, Manhattan sculptor, shipped to the Philadelphia Art Alliance last month for exhibition a large, black bronze figure of Paul Robeson, famed Negro actor and singer, posed nude.? Never shown, the statue was promptly shipped back to Sculptor Salemme with this explanation: "The executive committee [of the Art Alliance] expressed their apprehension of the consequences of exhibiting such a nude figure in a public square, especially the figure of a Negro, as the colored problem seems to be unusually great in Philadelphia...
...Last week in London, Actor Robeson was acclaimed in Othello...
...Chinese Actor Mei Lan-fang made his U. S. debut...
...performing the piece. Gathered together for the first time on one stage, the cast was all-Adler; seven of the nine sons and daughters and one son-in-law of the late great Jacob Pavlowich Adler. Born in Odessa, Russia, in 1855, Jacob Adler became successively public official, journalist, actor in a barnstorming Jewish troupe. When he was 30 he migrated to the U. S., formed the first stock company to devote itself to serious Yiddish drama. He discovered Playwright Jacob Gordin, had him write vehicles for the troupe, among them The Wild Man. From time to time he played...
Retired. William Gillette, 74, oldtime U. S. actor (The Admirable Crichton, Dear Brutus, Diplomacy), dramatist (Held by the Enemy, Too Much Johnson, Settled Out of Court, Sherlock Holmes), member of the American Academy of Arts & Letters; from the stage; after a final performance in Pittsburgh of his revival of Sherlock Holmes (TIME...