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ri ae “ ‘, ys a ee 7 ae . NY 100425857 Russia, 1936. Star of feature part in motion pictures "Emperor Jones," "Showboat," “King Solomon's Mines," and others. Member of Phi Beta Kappa, Alpha Psi Alpha, and Signa Tau Delta. Picked by Walter Karp as all-American in 1918. Home: 19 Buckingham Street, London, England; Address: Metropolitan Bureau, 113 West 57th Street, New York City. The following is an extract from Current Biography s dated 1941, found on pages 716 and 717: When Robeson left Columbia he was taken into the office of Louis ¥. Stotesbury, a Rutgers man and a prominent New York lawyer. He has made films for British as well as American producers, having for a long time made his home in England because he found less race prejudice there than in the United States. The racial problem 1s one that Robeson has studied thoroughly. It was racial discrimination as much as his own acting abllity that caused him to give up his career as a lawyer. He sent his eon (in 192] he married Eslanda Cardozo Goode) to school in the USSR because he thought the boy could grow up normally there, and in January, 1941, Robeson, with four other Negroes and five whites, was suing a San Francisco restaurant, because, they asserted, they had been refused admission. Robeson also frequently speaks out on political issues in which hefeels his race is deeply involved. In the Summer of 1940 he was op- posing conscription, speaking for peace~later, urging all Negroes in the in- dustry to join the United Automobile Workers of America in their Ford organizing drive. Even later, speaking ani singing at benefits for aid to Britain, China, and the Soviet Union, he has been called irradical,. en , From ‘Confidential Intornant SE) hove identity 4s known to! the Bureau, a party was given on August 25, : honor of PAUL RORESOK, at Camp W-CHI-CA. There were banners on all of the buildings and tents which read "WELCOVE PAUL ROBESGY"® and "PAUL ROBESON'S FREEDOMS FIGHTER." He then was escorted to the adninistration building, where there were more cheers for hin, and he was presented with a scroli from the children of the camp. During the presentation of the scroll by a young girl, he became so emotional that tears rolled down his cheeks. When the older folks saw this, many of the women were affected likewise. There was a football game played by the campers in which PAUL ROBESON tock part. At the banquet which followed, he presented some of the chfldren with medals for their achievements while at camp. After the ban- quet, there was a show put on by the children in which they sang songs that were written by PAUL ROBESON. To show his appreciation, PAUL ROBESON then sang several songs requested by the campers. Among the guests present were MR. and VPS, DAVE*SAEEN, New York State Secretary of the International Workers Orger, KAXAREDACET, National Executive Secretary of the If, HRS. ANN WILLARD, Mirector of the School for Democracy, SOLT-VAIL, Youth Director of the IO, HELEN"YRABEL, Kational Secretary of the Youth Division of the I’, and DR. and MRS.—KAUFLAN, MR. and YRS. ROSERT-ENGEL, HARD ID "TTSON of the Harlem Branch of the Ya, WH. and RS. MATT HALL, and CHARLES ‘HONIG. ao ae -10-