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Robeson’ Has| | Own Method| “Paul Robeson's concert at Phil-! harmonic Auditortum Saturday |: . night followed the pattern of! those. set by the Negro bass in . % recent years, in that it was part a 4, Recital and art political. -action |" * Falfy, . From’ the remarks ‘made by] > Blobeson it Is evident that this . Ballitant musician has no. inten-} se Se pi Boating ost who pay to hear o- ' ; ,@aent singing will, piso have to - endure his po liticking. ATO pistorting “Mike™ > hig reviewer likes neithe -manifestoes nor. mechanical con- , trivances as by-products of a musical recital. It is impossible -, te judge Robeson’s voice today _ by the same. critical yardstick “| with which one measures his ‘confreres “On the corcert glat- form, for he uses mnicrophones ‘and amplifiers, thus falsifying a yolume and distorting intna-| + + ‘ ad ‘| ee me TT a “W J Oa at tate acted es i a aoberon claims he does this . to eae the strain on his volce 4.” bot the fact remains that he is - the only major recitalist so to. _-dnduige himself. One result of - this distortion is that his mag- i .t'nificent yolce frequeritly sounds A “§ strainedly granular in passages 1° sung at full volume, ‘and that: “f his very deep tones Jack natural, ‘varied Successes” The most effective numbers oh “his program, from the stand- - point . Godounoft” and “After the Bat- * Deserving of great pr . ton, ‘were Mendelssohn's ! . God of Abraham? froma | ond the aria, “O Isis and a . from Mozart's “The Ma * Flares Moving simplicity fe * evident in several of the s Curly H “of English ballads g Titer. qe ee al. When Paul Robeson seng e Communist.“People’s Bat- music and musician.tle Song” bere and dedicated it ship, were two works by Moug-to Gere Eiger, fome mem- sorgsky, the prayer from “Borig’bere of. eed yond me. To ait idly listening to a man abusing the precious oO heritage of freedom given us by our Constitiition | in flaunt. © ing the preachings of our most ‘| dangerous enemy Js. Inviting y disaster, When such people | as Robeson are attacked they ‘scream “persecution” and . “Fascism"—the obvious dodge that our Red brethren attempt _ when cornered by people | whom they’ve goaded out of lethargy. Yet they believe. it perfectly right that they be al- ‘gowed to attack the very foun- dations of our country—simply use one of ‘our principles rovides freedom of apeech. - Bette Davis and Bill Sherry. are remodeling one of the * lrooms in their new home to | make a painter's studio for «Harry ( P ° By ‘Bherman’s. “daughter Teddi Je now a fulk fledged ‘writer -at Enterprise, -.. GENE _ JIERNEY Ar Leajecd VIVUANE*- ‘ROMANCE | § CARA ionce ALL reel TT 0" sm rT as HERETY ot 60 — isk a DATE IZA \oO — t out Why one reinained ie a pone