Paul Robeson (179 page)

reviews,
277–8
,
663–4
n
43
,
n
44

tour,
286
,
288–91
,
670
n
4
; reviews,
668
n
21

black actors as Othello,
274–5
,
661–2
n
33
,
n
34

interpretations of,
274–5
,
476–7
,
664
n
45

London production (1930),
122–3
,
128–9
,
133–9

plans for film,
612–3
n
29

plans for U.S. production,
138
,
612
n
27

rehearsals,
134–6

reviews,
136–7
,
611
n
24
,
612
n
26

London production (1959),
466
,
474–8
482
,
519–20
,
733
n
32

PR's views on,
137
,
274
,
275
,
611–12
n
25

Othello Recording Company,
408–9
,
425
,
714
n
47

Ovington, Mary White,
76

Owanga
(opera),
615
n
43

Owen, Bill,
543

Owen, Chandler,
71

Pabst, G. W.,
131
,
193

Padmore, George,
171
,
192
,
197
,
258
,
634
n
34

pan-Africanism,
257
,
628
n
59

Panama Canal Zone,
320–1
,
680
n
12

Pandit, Vijaya Lakshmi (Nan),
225
,
378
,
471
,
670
n
2
,
705
n
38

Pankey, Aubrey,
358
,
426
,
518–9

Pankey, Kay,
358
,
426
,
518–9

Panyushkin (Soviet ambassador),
423

Paris

1925 visit to,
92

1927 concert in,
109–10

Paris Peace Conference (1949),
see
World Peace Congress

Parker, Charlie,
177
,
397

Parker, Dorothy,
430
,
654
n
51

Parks, Johnnie Mae,
456–7

Parks, Rosa,
447

Parks, Sam,
418
,
456–7
,
499

Parsons, Louella,
376

Patterson, Haywood,
387

Patterson, Louise Thompson,
see
Thompson, Louise

Patterson, William L. (Pat),
42
,
106
,
107
,
190
,
208
,
220–1
,
318
,
324
,
337
,
347
,
354
,
389
,
390
,
431
,
439
,
442
,
444–5
,
542
,
681
n
20
,
717
n
12
,
761
n
12

friendship with PR,
41
,
293
,
422–3
,
444
,
540
,
710
n
19
,
721–2
n
37

and Eslanda Robeson,
41
,
187
,
629
n
7
,
691–2
n
49

Soviet and CPUSA ties,
187
,
311
,
338
,
383
,
429
,
628
n
59
,
629
n
7
,
684
n
42

UN genocide petition,
397–8

Paul Robeson, Negro
(ER),
139–40
,
225
,
566
n
2
,
613
n
32
,
n
33

first draft of,
121–2
,
606
n
33

Paul Robeson
(Seton),
568–9
n
14
,
571
n
30
,
731
n
18

Paul Robeson Archive (GDR),
542–3
,
759
n
44

Payn, Graham,
615
n
48

Payne, John C.,
49
,
88
,
116
,
118
,
164
,
192
,
604
n
13
,
620
n
17

Peace Arch concert (1952),
400
,
706
n
46
; (1953),
411
; (1954),
425
; (1955),
433

Peck, Theodora,
682
n
26
,
n
27

Peekskill events (1949),
364–74
,
694–7
n
1–25

Peekskill
Star
,
364
,
371

Peet, John,
750
n
48

Pell, Clarence C.,
77

People's Artists Inc.,
364

Peoria, Illinois, cancellation of concert in (1947),
317–20
,
678
n
5
,
n
6

Pepper, Claude,
305

Pericles
(Shakespeare), offer for PR to star in (1957),
451–2

Perkins, Osgood,
138

Perlmutter, Morris,
436
,
439
,
496
,
523–6
,
532–3
,
535–8
,
751
n
50
,
754
n
8
,
n
9
,
755
n
14
,
757
n
28
,
758
n
42
,
759
n
43

Perry, Lawrence,
52
,
584
n
11

Perry, Lincoln (Stepin Fetchit),
657
n
65

Perry, Pettis,
420
,
422
,
455
,
531
,
712
n
34
,
721
n
34

Perry, Rose,
420
,
455
,
531
,
712
n
34
,
718
n
15

Peterson, Dorothy,
235

Pettus, Terry,
401
,
411

Philadelphia Art Alliance,
69

Phillips, Wendell,
17

Pickens, William,
65

Pinchot, Cornelia Bryce,
251–2

Pitt, Malcolm,
292
,
668
n
23

Pittman, John,
244
,
482
,
532
,
737
n
52

Pittsburgh, 1958 concerts in,
455–6

Pittsburgh
Courier
,
104
,
330
,
358
,
444
,
459
,
602
n
48

Plantation Revue
,
52

Plant in the Sun
(Bengal),
223–5
,
642
n
23

Plomer, William,
162
,
612
n
26
,
619
n
13

Poitier, Sidney,
261
,
391
,
524
,
547
,
657
n
63

Polevoi, Boris,
496
,
542

Pollard, Fritz,
11
,
34
,
454
,
549
,
577
n
7
,
621
n
25
,
687
n
22

Pollitt, Harry,
491

Pollock, Arthur,
588
n
51

Pond, James B.,
82
,
84–6
,
98
,
602
n
54

Pool Group,
130
,
609
n
6

Popular Front,
247
,
249
,
250

Porgy
(play),
106
,
113
,
603–4
n
10

Porgy and Bess
(Gershwin),
193
,
215

Potash, Irving,
370

Powell, Adam Clayton, Jr.,
248
,
285
,
322
,
330
,
333
,
344–5
,
346
,
377
,
384
,
385
,
411
,
431
,
447
,
681
n
21
,
688
n
30
,
715
n
1
,
716
n
5
,
726
n
31

Powell, Bertha,
239

Powell, Lionel,
120
,
121

Prague,
see
Czechoslovakia

Prattis, P. L.,
273
,
455–6
,
459

Prayer Pilgrimage (1957),
447–8
,
722
n
4

Presbyterian Hospital (New York),
34
,
37
,
41
,
67
,
578
n
11

Presbytery of New Brunswick,
6–8

Price, Nick,
515
,
749
n
44

Priestley, J. B.,
234

Primus, Pearl,
283
,
284

Princeton, New Jersey, blacks in,
3
,
5–6
,
567–8

Princeton
Packet
(newspaper),
9

Princeton University,
3
,
19
,
28

Printemps, Yvonne,
157

Priory, the (psychiatric hospital),
502–3
,
507
,
511
,
513–15
,
743–5
n
9
,
n
11
,
n
12

Pritt, D. N.,
480
,
513
,
748
n
31

Private Lives
(Coward),
147
,
160

Progressive Citizens of America (PCA),
321–2

Progressive Party,
316–335
,
385
,
420
,
681
n
21
,
682
n
22
,
n
26

1947–8
316–335

1948 election campaign,
321–2
,
324–8
,
333–5

1950 convention,
383

1952 election campaign,
404–6

Proschowsky, Frantz,
101
,
660
n
20

Proud Valley, The
(film),
228
,
231
,
232
,
234
,
239
,
646
n
46
,
648
n
14

Provincetown Players,
52–3
,
55–67
,
75
,
76
,
96
,
603–4
n
10
,
608
n
44

spirituals concert at (1925),
79–81

see also
All God's Chillun Got Wings; Emperor Jones, The

Pryde, James,
136

Pudovkin, Vsevolod,
187

Pulitzer, Mrs. Joseph,
36

“Pursuit of Happiness, The” (radio series),
236

Pushkin, Aleksandr,
166
,
291

Quiett (Challenger), Frances (“Frankie”),
27
,
33–4
,
38
,
40
,
579
n
16

Quill, Michael J.,
249
,
303

Quilter, Sir Roger,
91
,
597
n
12
,
612
n
26

racial riots, Washington, D.C. (1919),
32

racism (racial prejudice or discrimination),
244–5
,
282
,
289–90

against black veterans,
305

Essie Robeson on,
88
,
293
,
294

during PR's high school years,
14–15
,
571
n
25
,
n
27
,
n
28
,
n
29

hotels,
99
,
100
,
288–9

in labor unions,
249–50

in London,
123–4
,
607–8
n
38

on
Othello
tour (1944),
288–9

in Princeton,
3
,
5–6

in restaurants,
87
,
288
,
308

at Rutgers,
20–1
,
24–5

at Stotesbury and Miner (law office),
55

theaters and performing halls,
99
,
251–2
,
256
,
317

at the turn of the century,
3–4

radio broadcasts,
235–6
,
238

BBC,
480–1
,
483
,
737
n
53

Raikin, Bruno,
350
,
352
,
466
,
470
,
543