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WY 100=25857 - tpoured more music Into Shakespearets poetry than this oritie haa ever heard, His woiece «- that desply resonant voilse ~ rang through the theatre. Every world . eould be heard, and every word touched the % neart.* Those who compared thie " production of 'Othello' with the one in which Robeson appeared in 1930 at the Savoy in London felt he had lost nothing and gained wuch - in the long interval, Thia writer has yet seen no comparison made with the New York production which ran for 296 performances at the Shubert Theatre in 1943 but he can- = 3 .-:_ . - say, having seen both, that in this instance, too, nothing haa been Lost but much bas . - been gained, , While woanimous in their praise of Robeson, the critica were In some instances not ao kind in their conmentsa on the staging of the play or the roles portrayed by Sem Wanamaker as Iago and Mise Mary Ure as Descémons, The London Times eritie Feit that Robeson was fsadly handicapped by an over-clever production’ and by the mise casting of the two characters mentioned, ~ 7 The esonsensus, however, was that Robeson's : Dyno atellar performance sufficed, despite any SO other shortcomings, to make this produstion & momorable and historic event in the history of the Shakespeare theetre, . Interviewed in his dressing room after the opening night performance, just two days before hia alzty-firet birthday, Robeson told the reporter of the London - Daily Mirror, 'f am overwhelmed by the - reception I have been given tonights It. fa the greatest moment of my life,! «10 <«